What’s better than having 1 lantern? 2 Lanterns! What’s better than 2 lanterns? 3 lanterns! What’s better than…I think you get the point. The Coleman Quad Lantern can break away into 4 portable panels. Each panel has a rechargeable battery inside, begins to recharge when returned to the lantern base and operates for up to 30 hours. An awesome lantern, especially for a large group of campers.
Coleman LED Quad Lantern
The Best Camping Lantern Out There I have been a long time believer in only using propane lanterns when car camping. Previous battery operated lanterns with florescent bulbs that I have tried have always lacked for sufficient light to eat by let alone cook or setup a tent with.But, then I discovered the Coleman LED Quad Lantern and everything has changed. This is, by far, the best camping lantern I have ever used! Not only is it super bright, it is smaller and more convenient than a propane lantern – especially since I no longer need to tote around gas canisters.But, this lantern is more than just a lantern; it provides for personal lighting needs as well. Each of the lantern’s four light panels detach and work as rechargeable hand lamps for that rummage in the back of the truck for gear or the scramble to the bathroom site in the middle of the night. And, with a 1-1/2 hour charge time, that makes these light panels useful for reading in the tent, etc.It is not only this lantern’s…
Perhaps the most ingenius lantern I bought this for my father as a camping lantern, and he’s been totting it around to family get-togethers, he likes it so much. We have NOT been camping yet, but we’ve tried it out in window-less rooms and I have to admit that it puts out quite the amount of light (which is a relief, since the lumen count is lower than the CFL Coleman lanterns), and it isn’t too harsh to look at. There are diffusers over the LED’s, so while they ARE bright, they aren’t painful.One interesting feature is the main base overrides the panel settings. Thus, if you have a panel turned on, plug it into the base, and turn the base off, the panel turns OFF. Then if you were to remove the panel from the base, the panel setting would kick in again, and it would flip on. Similarly, if you turn a panel off, and plug it into the base, it will use whatever setting the base has. This means that you can’t turn off individual panels on the lantern BASE. However, this also means that you don’t have to…
Wait for the next version before spending your money Picked up one of the Coleman LED Quad Lanterns this weekend. This thing is rather large in size. It takes 8 “D” batteries and will supposedly run for up to 75 hours.It puts out a good amount of light and the quad break-away lights will each run for up to 1.5 hours on an internal rechargeable battery. The battery is constantly being topped off or recharged from the main 8 “D” batteries. The lights are very light in weight and durable give the LED lights.CONSThe main lantern is either all on or all off. There is no way to just light one or two, or even three panels. Some may say just pull off a break away. I say that is a waste when you could have just one light drawing directly against those 8 “D” batteries instead of the rechargeable which has a limited number of recharges and looses power through the recharging circuit.There is no nightlight feature. Stumbling around the tent, cabin, room, or camp site looking for the lantern is just plain…