This isn’t really new any more, but it occurred to me that I hadn’t mentioned it here…
Although I don’t have BLF Lantern hardware yet, I added some lantern-related features on my BLF Q8. One thing it has is a sunset mode, where it’ll start at a low level then get dimmer for an hour until it shuts itself off. It also has some more atmospheric modes which I think would work well on a lantern…
3 minutes of lightning storm mode:
3 minutes of candle flicker mode:
Play both videos at the same time if you want to simulate taking shelter by a fire while a storm goes by.
I am really excited to see the prototype for this lantern. I am curious to see how the downward mounted led is incorporated. The flicker and lightning modes sound great!
I have the prototype (from the OP) taken apart and re-working the head design for 2 LED emitters and a center post bolt ( to make it simpler & stronger, plus adding a frosted main lens to eliminate the inner globe to lower costs & make it simpler in design.
I hope to get photos of it soon and post an updated blueprint. - DB
I don’t mind the relatively low output, but I can definitely understand how it’d seem underwhelming compared to the BLF Q8. It’s designed for a totally different style of use though, where turbo isn’t very relevant… and the lower brightness should help keep the cost down a bit.
It’ll make the lightning storm mode less impressive, but that’s kind of just icing anyway.