Battery Powered Wall Sconces in Our RV: A GlowRight Review
For battery powered wall sconces in an RV, ours are GlowRight’s Smart+ Halo Lux lights, stuck right onto the walls of our travel trailer. Each one runs on its own rechargeable battery, so there’s no wiring to run and nothing drawing on the trailer’s house battery.
Here’s where I land. The actual sconces are just phenomenal. I think they’re one of the best purchases we’ve ever made for the RV (literally probably the best), and they’re probably my favorite thing in the trailer besides the battery. The rest of that same order? Not so much. So this is a big yes on the sconces and a “skip it” on everything else we bought with them.
Why put battery powered lights in an RV?
We ordered ours from GlowRight on November 15, 2025, during our first winter in the Brinkley, and had them shipped to where we were staying in Austin. (Same winter I finally figured out the Texas State Parks Pass.)
Our trailer is a 2026 Brinkley Model I 235. It’s one room with lots of windows, and it already has its own lights, which run off our 460Ah Epoch lithium battery. So why add more?
Because battery lights skip the hard parts. There’s no wiring to run, and no holes to drill if you use the tape. They don’t touch the house battery, since each light carries its own. And you can move them around whenever you want, because they’re held on with tape and magnets instead of screws.
I don’t want to oversell the battery part. Lighting usually isn’t the big power draw in an RV. But we boondock a lot, at places like Hovenweep and Sand Gulch with no hookups at all, and any power the lights don’t use is there for everything else. (Cheap federal dry camping like Penitente Canyon, at half price with my Access Pass, is a big reason our campsite costs stay low. The catch is that we’re on our own for power.)
Honestly, though? They’re almost the only lights we use.
What makes the Halo Lux so good?
The warm light, first. You can change the color temperature, and we always want warm light. We hate blue light more than anything on the planet, so we’re very glad these do a nice warm glow. (GlowRight lists 2700K to 6500K. The lower the number, the warmer the light.)
They also point up or down, whichever you want, and they dim. Great for watching TV. You control each one with a button right on the light, and that’s all you need.
Here’s what GlowRight lists for them on its own product page:
- A 10,400mAh battery that charges by USB-C (it can also stay plugged in for 24/7 use)
- Two lights in one, a soft wide glow and a focused beam, used separately or together
- 97 CRI
- A wall mount that goes up with nano double-sided tape (two screws and anchors are in the box too), with the light held on magnetically
CRI is a measure of how true colors look under a light, on a scale that tops out at 100, so 97 is high.
Where we put six sconces in a travel trailer
Here’s where the six went:
- Two by our chairs, one on each side
- Two in the kitchen
- One in the middle of the trailer, near where the jackets hang
- One over the door, as an entrance light
Do stick-on lights stay up on rough roads?
Ours do now, but not on the first try. We put the sconces up with Command strips at first, just to see if we liked them, and those eventually fell off.
So we switched to the adhesive that came with the lights, and they haven’t budged one bit since. And this trailer has been down a lot of rough roads. The light sits on the wall mount on a little ball magnet, so it pops right off when it’s time to charge and snaps back on after.
How often do you have to charge them?
Not very often. It depends on how much we use them, but they last a long time on a charge.
GlowRight’s own numbers swing a lot depending on how you use them. The months figure is for a light a sensor flicks on a few times a day. If you use them the way we do, as your main lights, the hours are the numbers that matter. Dimming them stretches it.
| Halo Lux mode (GlowRight’s figures) | Single light | Dual light |
|---|---|---|
| Sensor mode, 6 times a day, 100% brightness | 8 to 9 months | 4 to 5 months |
| Always on, 50% brightness | about 48 hours | about 24 hours |
| Always on, 100% brightness | about 24 hours | about 12 hours |
What should you skip from GlowRight?
Everything else we bought in that order.
The hand sensors. You wave at the sensor and the lights paired to it come on, then wave again to turn them off. We do use them, and I really don’t like them. They’re gimmicky and they work on and off. We also trigger them by accident a lot. I’d much rather have a button, and I honestly don’t know why GlowRight didn’t make it one. I wouldn’t recommend them, and I don’t think they’re worth it. Just push the button on the light.
The Everywhere Lights. These are the slim magnetic bar lights we put under the cabinets, and I was very unimpressed. They didn’t last long at all on a charge. (GlowRight lists about 8 hours always on at full brightness for the 10 inch size. The battery is 2250mAh, a lot smaller than the sconce’s.) They also have no built-in sensor, so GlowRight says they need one of the Smart+ sensors to unlock their features. Which ties them to the part I like least.
The Pro COB Lightstrip. Definitely not. I was very unimpressed, and we’ve already taken it out of the RV. One thing to know if you’re looking at it for a trailer: it isn’t battery powered at all. It plugs into a regular 120 volt outlet through a control hub, so off grid it runs through the inverter and draws on the house battery anyway.
I do still want a light strip, just a different one. I’d love multicolor, tunable white LED strip lighting running all the way around the upper edge of the inside of the trailer. GlowRight lists a color temperature range for its strip and no colors, so that one’s still on the someday list.
What did it all cost?
The whole order came to $366.26 after a 15 percent discount code, with free shipping. The sconces were $239.95 of that, and they’re the only part I’d recommend.
| What | Price | Our verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Smart+ Halo Lux, 6-light pack (white) | $239.95 | Buy |
| Smart+ Everywhere Light, 3-light pack (10 inch) | $80.97 | Skip |
| Smart+ Pro COB Lightstrip kit, 6.56 ft (2 m) | $79.99 | Skip |
| Smart+ Hand Sensor (two) | $29.98 | Skip |
| Subtotal | $430.89 | |
| 15 percent discount code | minus $64.63 | |
| Shipping | Free | |
| What we paid | $366.26 |
For scale, our first year of running costs came to $17,354.29 (about $204 a night), and getting the trailer set up in the first place was $16,260.42. The whole breakdown is in what a year on the road actually cost us.
Where to buy the Halo Lux
Straight from GlowRight. Here’s the official Smart+ Halo Lux page. GlowRight doesn’t have an affiliate program, so we don’t make a dime if you buy. Every place we’ve camped with them is on the travel map. They’re just incredible. We love them so much.
Questions people ask
Are battery powered wall lights worth it in an RV?
The Halo Lux sconces are, for us. They need no wiring and don’t draw on the house battery. They’re almost the only lights we use, and I’d call them one of the best things we’ve bought for the trailer.
How long does the GlowRight Halo Lux battery last?
We don’t have to charge ours very often, though it depends on how much we use them. GlowRight lists about 24 hours always on at full brightness for a single light, and about 48 hours at half brightness.
Are the GlowRight hand sensors worth it?
Not in our experience. Ours work on and off, and we trigger them by accident a lot. The button on the light does the job better.
Do GlowRight lights drain your RV battery?
The Halo Lux doesn’t, because each light has its own rechargeable battery. The Pro COB Lightstrip is different. It plugs into a 120 volt outlet, so off grid it runs through the inverter and draws on the house battery.
Do stick-on lights stay on the wall in an RV?
Ours do with the right adhesive. Command strips held at first and eventually fell off. With the adhesive that came with the lights, they haven’t budged, even after a lot of rough roads.
See you down the road,
Matt