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Sam Johnson
★★★★★
My kids didn't notice the outage
Installed three of these in our main floor fixtures. The next storm knocked out our power and the lights stayed on without a flicker. My kids didn't notice the outage for a full minute.
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★★★★★4.8· 2,847 reviews Akina Rechargeable Emergency Light BulbsAn everyday LED bulb that switches to its own battery the instant the power cuts, and keeps the room lit for up to 10 hours. No wiring, no setup.
$34.00$53.00 In stock. Free shipping on every order. Quantity Free shipping 30-day free returns 2-year warranty The details
How do they charge?They charge automatically while you use them. Screw the bulb into any standard light fixture, and whenever the switch is on and your home has power, the built-in battery charges silently in the background. There are no extra cables, messy wires, or bulky charging stations required. Can I use them as portable lights?Yes. Each bulb includes a screw-on hook attachment. If you need to move around during a blackout, unscrew the cool-to-the-touch bulb from your lamp, attach the hook, and carry it like a handheld lantern. Hang one in a dark closet, take one to the basement to check the breaker, or pack them for camping trips. How long do they last during an outage?When fully charged, the built-in battery provides continuous light for up to 10 hours. That is plenty of time to navigate your home safely, find emergency supplies, and wait out the blackout without relying on candles or a weak phone flashlight. How bright are they?850 lumens in normal mode, which is the equivalent of a standard 60W incandescent bulb. During an outage they hold 400 lumens, enough to move around safely, read, or handle tasks. Bright enough for everyday use in lamps, ceiling fixtures, hallways, bedrooms and kitchens. |
Tried and Trusted by 2,800+ Households
Unedited clips from real customers, filmed during real outages. Tap any one to watch it full screen with sound.
Auto-On Backup Switches to battery power in under a second, on its own. | 10-Hour Battery A full charge covers most outages start to finish. | Self-Charging Tops itself up from the fixture during everyday use. | 2-Year Warranty If anything fails within 2 years, we replace it. |
The set it and forget it backup planNever worry about dead batteries or hunting for supplies when a storm hits. These bulbs charge silently in the background while you use them as everyday lighting. Screw them into your favourite fixture and flip the switch. When the grid fails you already have hours of backup power banked and ready to go. It is effortless, zero-maintenance emergency preparedness. |
Blackout-proof the whole houseSay goodbye to scrambling in the dark, tripping over furniture, or lighting fire-hazard candles. Built-in sensors detect the grid failure and switch the bulb to battery power in a fraction of a second. Nobody has to find anything, press anything, or do anything. It is immediate, stress-free safety for the whole family. |
The grab-and-go lantern hackWhy stay stuck in one room? When you need to check the basement breaker box or move through a dark house, unscrew the cool-to-the-touch bulb from your lamp and twist on the included hanging hook. It becomes a handheld emergency lantern you can carry anywhere, or hang in a closet, hallway or tent. |
What you reach for in a blackout
| Candles | Flashlight | Akina bulb | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comes on by itself when the power cuts | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Lights the whole room | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Nothing to find in the dark | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No batteries to buy or replace | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No open flame | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Useful every day, not only in outages | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Customer reviews
4.8
★★★★★Based on 2,847 reviews · Verified buyers
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✓Noah MartinezVerified Buyer
★★★★★
Haven't thought about flashlights since
Replaced four bulbs and haven't thought about flashlights since. They live in the hallway and the kitchen and they just work.
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✓Charlotte HarrisVerified Buyer
★★★★★
Feels like a quality everyday LED
Solid brightness at 850 lumens. Doesn't feel like a backup bulb, it feels like a quality everyday LED that happens to have a battery in it.
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✓Danielle WrightVerified Buyer
★★★★★
Two outages in the first month
Real-world test: two outages in the first month. Both times these performed exactly as advertised, on within a second and still lit an hour later.
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✓Sofia GonzalezVerified Buyer
★★★★★
Three outages, all uneventful
We got three outages last winter. These made all three completely uneventful, which is the highest praise I can give a light bulb.
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JP
✓Jack PhillipsVerified Buyer
★★★★★
The hook is the clever part
The hook is a clever accessory. Transforms an emergency light into a proper lantern in about four seconds. One star of credit just for that.
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✓Marguerite D.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Ice storm took the block out for nine hours
The whole street went dark and our kitchen just stayed lit. I didn't touch a thing. Nine hours later it was still going, a bit dimmer but plenty to cook and read by.
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✓Ray H.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Put one in the basement stairwell
That stairwell is the one place in the house I actually worry about losing light. Screwed one in, tested it by flipping the breaker, and it came on before I got to the bottom step.
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KM
✓Kevin M.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
As described
Exactly what the listing says.
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✓Priyanka S.Verified Buyer
★★★★☆
Great, but read the runtime note
Works exactly as described. Only thing: the ten hours is at the lower 400 lumen backup output, not the full brightness. That's in the description but I skimmed it and was briefly confused.
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✓Tobias W.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Ten-pack did the whole house
Two bedrooms, hallway, kitchen, bathroom, garage and the porch. Having every room covered means we don't have to gather in one place when the power drops. Worth the ten over the six.
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ST
✓Sandra T.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Fast shipping
Arrived in three days. No issues.
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✓Ana-Lucia F.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
My mother lives alone and this settled me
She's 84 and candles were not happening. Put three of these in her most-used lamps. She doesn't have to find anything or press anything, which was the entire point.
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✓Dev R.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
The hook is not a gimmick
Twisted the hook on and hung it in the pantry, which has no fixture at all. It's been living there ever since. I bought these for outages and use one daily for a cupboard.
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RO
✓R. OkonkwoVerified Buyer
★★★★★
Good
Works.
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CB
✓Colleen B.Verified Buyer
★★★★☆
Slightly warmer than my other bulbs
3000K reads a little yellower than the LEDs in the rest of the room. Not a problem once I swapped the pair in that lamp, but worth knowing if you're mixing them.
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✓Jonas E.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Took two camping instead of a lantern
Charged them at home, unscrewed them, hooked them inside the tent. Better light than the battery lantern we'd been hauling for years and no spare AAs to forget.
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JA
✓Jill A.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Great value
Cheaper than the ones at the hardware store and brighter.
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✓Hyun-Ju P.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Brightness is genuinely 60W equivalent
I was expecting the usual emergency-bulb dimness. This is a real everyday bulb. It's been in the reading lamp for two months and I'd keep it there even without the battery.
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DM
✓Darnell M.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Hurricane season, no scrambling
Third season on the coast and the first one where I didn't buy a crate of batteries in June. Grid went down twice in September and both times the house just stayed lit.
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PS
✓Pat S.Verified Buyer
★★★★☆
Happy with it
No complaints so far.
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✓Bethany O.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Kids' rooms first
Bought the six pack, put two in the kids' rooms, one in the hall between them. No more night-time panic when the lights go. That alone paid for the set.
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SK
✓Stefan K.Verified Buyer
★★★★☆
Charges as claimed, just be patient
Took a full evening of normal use before the backup lasted the whole night. If you install them and cut the power an hour later you'll be disappointed. Leave them on a day first.
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WL
✓Wen L.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Does the job
Bought it for one thing and it does that one thing.
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RA
✓Rosalind A.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Workshop has no windows
Losing power in there is genuinely unsafe with the saw running. One of these overhead means I can shut everything down and walk out properly instead of feeling for the door.
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✓Omar T.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Fits a standard socket, no adapter
Slight worry it'd be too long for the enclosed fixture in the hallway. It isn't. Standard screw base, standard size, went straight in.
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DA
✓D. AlvarezVerified Buyer
★★★★★
ok
ok
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FM
✓Fiona McK.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Bought a second pack a week later
Started with three to try them. Ordered the ten pack the following week and swapped out almost every bulb downstairs. No notes.
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TL
✓Tasha L.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Rental, no wiring allowed
Landlord won't let me touch anything electrical. These need nothing but a socket, and they come with me when I move.
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HB
✓Hannah B.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Bright
Very bright.
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GV
✓Gregor V.Verified Buyer
★★★☆☆
One of six arrived dead
Five work perfectly. The sixth never charged. Support replaced it inside a week without much fuss, so three stars for the unit and no complaint about the service.
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✓Neve C.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Cool to the touch, which matters
Unscrewed one mid-outage to carry it and it was barely warm. Try that with an incandescent. Small detail, but it's the difference between a portable light and a burn.
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MI
✓Mo I.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Works as advertised
Tested it by cutting the breaker. Came on.
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MQ
✓Martin Q.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Power company does planned shutoffs here
Wildfire season means scheduled outages, sometimes eight hours. These cover the whole window. We've stopped rearranging our day around the notices.
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LN
✓Lindiwe N.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Garage door opener died with the power
Which meant manually releasing it in the dark. Not any more. One bulb in the garage fixture and I could actually see the release cord.
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TK
✓Terri K.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Would buy again
Might get another set for the garage.
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ED
✓Ewan D.Verified Buyer
★★★★☆
Wish the ten pack came in a better box
Bulbs are excellent. Packaging was a bit thin for ten of them and one arrived with a scuffed base. It works fine, it just looked knocked about.
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CE
✓Caridad E.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Old house, breaker trips constantly
Not a grid problem, just bad wiring we can't afford to redo yet. Every trip used to mean phone torches. Now it means walking to the panel with the lights still on.
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GB
✓G. BaptisteVerified Buyer
★★★★★
Nice
Nice bulbs, good packaging.
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PZ
✓Piotr Z.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Gave three as a housewarming gift
Sounds like a boring present. It was the one thing they messaged me about a month later, after their first outage.
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AB
✓Aoife B.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
No hum, no flicker
Some battery-backed bulbs I've tried buzz on the way up. These don't do anything you'd notice. It just stays on.
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YA
✓Yusuf A.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Easy
Screwed it in, done.
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CN
✓Clare N.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Recommend
Would recommend to anyone in a storm area.
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BP
✓Bradley P.Verified Buyer
★★★★☆
Solid
Feels well made.
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ST
✓S. ThorneVerified Buyer
★★★★★
No issues
Two months in, still fine.
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IH
✓Ingrid H.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Good light
Warm, not harsh.
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LC
✓Lamar C.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Exactly right
What I needed.
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NF
✓Nadia F.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Arrived quickly
Well packed too.
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ER
✓Eddie R.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Pleased
Pleased with the purchase.
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JW
✓Joanne W.Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Handy
The hook is handy.
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