Rechargeable LED lights for homes, shops, stalls and classrooms. Hanging panels, standing tubes, folding lamps and bulbs, charged from mains, USB or solar. 50 pieces upwards.
Description
"How many hours will it last?" Every buyer asks that first, and most suppliers answer with a number they've never measured. The light above is a rechargeable LED panel with a hook, the sort that hangs off a nail in a shop in Ogbete and comes on the moment the power drops. It sells continuously, because the power drops continuously, and because a battery that's been cycled every night for a year eventually stops holding charge and the customer comes back for another one.
Take the photograph as one option among many. Hanging panel, standing tube, folding desk lamp for a student, a rechargeable bulb that screws into a holder somebody already owns, or a bigger unit on a stand for a counter. Charging from 220-240V mains, USB Type-C, a small solar panel, or several of those together.
About those numbers on the carton. Lumen claims in this category get inflated tenfold without anyone blushing, and "18 hours" nearly always means the dimmest setting with half the LEDs asleep. Your customer wants two honest figures: brightness at full power, and hours at full power. We measure both, and we give you the half-power run time as a separate line so nothing gets blended together into a flattering average.
Battery chemistry decides whether the light comes back to your counter in six months. LiFePO4 lasts longest and copes best with heat, which counts for a lot in a shop with a zinc roof. Genuine 18650 lithium-ion cells sit in the middle and do the job. Sealed lead-acid is heavy, cheap, and short-lived once a customer runs it flat over and over. Give us your price point and we'll say which chemistry actually fits it. One more thing worth mentioning: a consignment came through once with EU two-pin chargers in the box instead of UK three-pin, which meant adaptors for every unit and a very unhappy trader. Plug type is on our checklist now, every single order.
Carton lumens are fiction
A 300-lumen panel gets printed as 3000. Nobody in the chain corrects it, so the figure on the box tells you nothing useful. Run times get the same treatment: the headline hours are measured on the lowest setting with most of the LEDs off.
We quote what the meter says. We measure output and run time on samples, full power and half power listed separately.
Two other things to settle before you order. Charging voltage should be 220-240V at 50Hz with a UK three-pin plug, since anything built for 110V is unsellable here. And lithium cells travel as declared dangerous goods, so the paperwork has to be right before the container is packed.
Specification
The table describes the light in the photograph. Nothing in it is locked. Send us your version and we'll price that.
| Product type | Rechargeable LED emergency light: hanging panel, standing tube, folding lamp or bulb |
|---|---|
| Real output | 300 to 2000 measured lumens depending on model, taken from the unit rather than the carton |
| LEDs | SMD 2835 or COB; warm white, cool white or dual-colour switchable |
| Battery | LiFePO4, 18650 lithium-ion or sealed lead-acid; 2000mAh to 12000mAh |
| Run time | Stated at full power and at half power separately, both measured |
| Charging | 220-240V mains, USB Type-C, or 5W-10W solar panel; any combination |
| Brightness control | Two or three levels plus SOS flash on selected models |
| Mounting | Hook, folding stand, magnet, wall bracket or table base |
| Extras | USB output for phone charging; power-cut auto-on available |
| Housing | ABS or aluminium; IP44 splash-resistant option for outdoor use |
| Plug | UK three-pin (BS 1363) as standard on mains chargers |
| Branding | Your logo on housing, box and insert card; colour matched |
| Packaging | Printed colour box, blister card or bulk carton |
We do not publish prices, because the landed figure depends on the specification, the Customs valuation and the exchange rate on the day you pay.
Minimum order
Fifty units gets you an order, and they can all be different. Twenty hanging panels charging from mains and USB, fifteen standing tubes with solar for customers off the grid, ten folding desk lamps for the school trade, five counter units on stands, plus a carton of spare batteries. That's one shipment and it qualifies. Where you want your own logo on the housing and your own printed box, budget for 100 per design instead, because the factory won't run a print plate for less. Neutral packaging keeps you at fifty.
Lead time. Sea consolidation to Lagos runs about 15 to 22 days on plain-packaged stock. Lithium cells are declared dangerous goods and the declaration has to be correct before packing, since an undeclared consignment endangers the entire container rather than only your cartons. We deal with that paperwork. Air freight works on approved packing and costs noticeably more on battery goods. Branded housings and printed boxes add roughly 7 to 12 days on top, then clearing and the drive out of the port.
What decides the right one
A trader in Ibadan once told us he'd stopped believing any figure printed on a lighting carton. Fair enough. He asked whether we could get him lights with numbers that survive a meter, we went looking for factories willing to be measured, and this page is what came back from that search. It's here as an illustration of the work, so treat the light above as one example rather than a fixed item on a shelf.
Your own list probably looks different. A rechargeable standing fan with a light in the hub. A small solar home kit with two bulbs and a phone charger. A floodlight with a motion sensor for a compound gate. A portable power station. Something from a trade with no relationship to lighting whatsoever. Whichever it is, send a photo, a marketplace link or a few lines describing it, and the same thing happens next: a manufacturer gets traced, a specification gets held up against the sales talk, and a delivered Nigerian price comes back to you to decide on.
On quantity. Batteries make small consignments awkward, because the dangerous-goods documentation costs much the same whether you ship ten cartons or eighty, and a factory will only build to a mixed brief once the numbers are worth its time. Fifty is where those two things meet. Put your own name on the housing and it climbs toward a hundred. Shape, output, battery, charging, colour and carton stay entirely in your hands.
Common questions
Which battery should I be stocking?
LiFePO4 where you want the longest life and the best behaviour in heat. Genuine 18650 lithium-ion for the middle of the market. Sealed lead-acid only where price beats everything else in the buying decision.
Is a built-in solar panel worth paying for?
For customers with little or no mains, yes. Be honest about what it does though. A small panel tops the battery up across a day of sunlight; it won't fill an empty cell by lunchtime.
Can it charge a phone?
On models with a USB output, yes, and that feature closes sales here for very little extra factory cost.
Can panels, tubes and bulbs go in the same order?
Yes. We measure the minimum against the shipment as a whole, so mix the styles freely.
What about spare batteries?
Order them with the lights. A trader who can swap a dead cell keeps the customer; one who can't watches that customer walk to the next stall.
Does the lithium affect shipping?
Yes. Cells are declared dangerous goods, so packing and documentation follow their own rules. An undeclared consignment puts the whole container at risk, which is why we handle the declaration ourselves.
I'm looking for something you haven't shown here
Send a picture or a link and we'll take it from there. Finding whatever a buyer points at is the service; this light is just one thing we happened to find.
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Tell us the numbers you need
Style, brightness at full power, hours you want it to run, how it charges, and roughly how many of each. We'll come back with a price landed in Nigeria. Looking for something quite different? A photo or a link is all we need to begin.
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