Choice of a hurricane lamp to oil

There exist two types of hurricane lamp to oil, the traditional lamp has wick and the lamp with high pressure, we will not speak about the oil lamps.
According to the use one or the other is adapted. The lamp with wick produces a weak light, all Juste of what without being useful as a bedside, moreover it is relatively fragile, fine metal and important glass and curvature.
Outside, at the time of winds very strong, it with tendency has to die out. The hurricane lamp with guaranteed high pressure an operation by any time, manufactured out of brass, it offers a resistance increased to the shocks, it produces a light intense and regular without variations, up to 400 Watts, most famous today has been pretromax model HK500, manufactured for one century in Germany, it equips the army and is produced for the general public in colours very sympathetic nerves, out of nickelled brass “silver plated” or polished brass “yellow”.
Today, it is available in France on this very good specialized site out of hurricane lamp and moreover he proposes the spare parts on the models ancienss and recent.