solopaddler wrote on Jan 5^th, 2018 at 1:47pm:

solotripper wrote on Jan 4th, 2018 at 11:42pm: SP, When you get your unit up and running, I would be interested in exactly how long you get in battery life with it working continuously? I thought I read it was about 30 hrs which would be great but I read a few online reviews that said it was much less than that? I'll let you know. It runs on four AAA batteries, so even if it was necessary to bring extra batteries it's not a big deal. I'm doing a 15 night trip in Algonquin in early May. I'll bring it with me on that trip and figure out all the ins and outs before our bigger trip in the summer.

I like that you don't need a battery box like my unit.
I made one that uses 10 AA batteries. That adds a lot of weight compared to a couple of sets of AAA batteries.

Unless you keep in on constantly if you could get say 20+ hrs on a set of batteries that would be a great mix of utility and simplicity.