when removed from projections 206 or when ac power is cut off to wall mountable charging base 202 the wall mountable recharging base includes a first charge circuit responsive to supplied ac power to provide a charge signal and each lamp module includes a light emitting element connected to a rechargeable battery pack via a second circuit operative in one mode to charge the rechargeable battery pack in response to the charge signal when each lamp module is supported by the wall mountable charging base and operative in another mode to activate the light emitting element in response to the absence of the charge signal whereby each lamp module lights if removed from the wall mountable recharging base and lights if no ac power is supplied to the wall mountable recharging base when supported thereon a switch not shown may be provided to independently turn each lamp module 204 on off to conserve charge or to use the light as needed referring now to fig1 reference numeral 230 generally refers to another exemplary embodiment of the rechargeable lamp system of the present invention lamp system 230 comprises a wall plug mountable charging base generally designated 232 and a single lamp module generally designated 234 the embodiment 230 is generally the same as the embodiment 200 described above in connection with the description of fig1 except the wall plug mountable charging base 232 includes extending plug members 236 adapted to plug the.