Anyone got a zanflare T1 lantern?

I ordered a Zanflare lantern 9 days ago. Fast forward to today: this morning I received an update that my order was “shipped out”.
So I guess in another 4 weeks a package will arrive at my home.
Hopefully the package won’t be hold in customs because of the 18650 that is shipped with it.

This is interesting.

Wonder does it remember the last temp. used, sort of like a memory mode.

I ordered mine on the 26th. It shipped today the 29th.

Got the lantern in. I have to say this a really cool lantern. About the size of the Fenix CL25R, and made out of similar hard plastic. Not cheap plastic at all. Comes with a 2600mAh unprotected flat top. Does this mean the lantern has LVP?, Don’t know. I tried a protected NCR-GA in it, and it’s too tight lengthwise. The cell it comes with, may be some junk cell, don’t know yet. I just re-wrapped it and charging it now.

Has 3 modes of operation, plus a red light 4th which is operated by a push button on the bottom.

The silver button at the top is a touch sensor.

Fairly nice machined battery tube. Cap has a magnet. Button is for the red light function, and the micro USB port.

The modes is where it gets ingenious. Will try my best to explain how it works.

One tap of the sensor turns the light on. Hold the button for up and down ramping brightness, just like the Q8 works.

There are 3 modes.

  1. is cool blue light mode with brightness ramping
  2. is a selected color temp mode that ramps up and down
  3. is the color temp mode that ramps from cool blue to 2500k incandescent. (You select this color temp for use in mode 2)

The 4th mode is the red light button at the button, which also shuts the light off. 1 press, turns red on, one more press is flashing red, one more is light off.

So basically you start off by double tapping the sensor. This gets you into color temp mode. You ramp it to the desired temp, then tap the sensor and it puts you into mode 2 where your selected temp brightness can now be ramped up and down.

Clear as mud, right?

Personally, they should have skipped the cool blue mode altogether, since you can select cool blue if you wanted to.

It remembers the temp you select until you remove the battery, then it clears everything and you start over. But with usb charging, you shouldn’t have to remove the battery.

What is the charging current?

Current GB price is $23 + shipping, so not that great, but it looks like a nice little light.

Don’t know, and don’t really care. Would have all day to charge it.

I got mine using this coupon. 16.88. Give it a try might still work

https://monkeyecho.com/daily-coupons/zanflare-t1-super-bright-tent-lamp-available-coupons/

It doesn’t. I already checked.

RobertB thanks for sharing your first impression. Most important point for improvement seems to be the UI so far; and starting in warm white as default instead of cold white.

Good to see some serious new competition in the domain of lanterns, especially the combination of good build quality, small size, low-weight, warm white LED, 18650 cell, lack of PWM.

darn, thats too bad. There will be another deal for it soon enough I’m sure

It has memory, so it will start in warm white. It starts where ever you last left it. But even when you change the battery, all it takes is a tap of the finger to get to warm white. The UI is fine.

I’m discharging a battery right now, and will test LVP

Try ‘zanflareT1’…

Yes, that works. Knocks 6 dollars off. you have to type in the code exactly like that, lower case zanflare, capitol T, and 1

Thanks!

Hows the light ouput and battery life? Is a light with a diffuser better than this?

Robert, now I’m really excited about getting mine. How long did it take for you to get yours?

Ordered it on May 8th. So close to 3 weeks. I paid for US Air mail with tracking, never got a tracking number that worked, but it did show up on time.

Thanks man. I did the normal shipping without tracking.

Looks like low voltage protection shuts the light down right at 3v. I would say, get a 3500mAh NCR18650GA, LG MJ1, or Samsung 35E unprotected flat top and call it a day.

Thanks for checking this. I will probably grab a 35E cell for it.

Still waiting on mine, at least it’s showing as shipped.

Relieved it gets BLF users approval, thanks to RobertB for the photos!