Very cool to find another lantern collector here! We are all lumen junkies, so anything that produces light is fair game. I prefer the early lanterns with the white porcelain treatment under the shade. The white color really does reflect more light and the differences are visually apparent. Its also fun experimenting with different thorium treated mantles and fuel mixtures, especially with the kerosene varieties. I have around 200 lanterns and still growing.
Im looking forward to your LT1 accessory kit. The plastic bowl you demoād will be replicated if all else fails. lol
A little something to heat my house. Dont worry, my insurance company says my house is insured if one blows up!
Itās nice to hear so much enthusiasm from white gas powered lantern owners for the LT1. While I see many advantages for the battery powered version, I imagine the LT1 wonāt come close in terms of maximum output capability compared to a gas powered lantern. In my use I donāt see that as a problem, but I would be very interested to see a comparison of the LT1 to a gas lantern in a picture like the ones posted above.
EDIT: sorry for my blasphemous comment regarding white gas, I did not realize these are kerosene lanterns . . .
Would still be interested to see the comparison though.
I did do just that some years ago with the original V1 prototype of the LT1, but will certainly do more comparison videos of the production LT1 to them as soon as they are in production and on the way :+1:
Here is the original V1 prototype, (the lantern on the right of the photo, when it was running 4-7135s on a Nanjg Q-Lite driver) and the Coleman 321 single-mantle gas lantern on the left of the photo, (with two modified LED lanterns in the middle)
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get a chance to have a look onto the manual in the first place. I asked my contact at Sofirn who created the manual but she wouldn't know. It looks very well done as far as I can assess.
I send you a shared link via PM to download the editable docx-file. It would be fantastic if you were to check the content for any mistakes and let me know about it or maybe even do the corrections (if any) in the file.
I convinced Sofirn this morning to let you check the manual first and do the translation afterwards and not vice versa.
If you see any chance to place the nice logo into the file that'd be great. Otherwise I could also do it including some minor corrections with the layout where necessary.
@Lux-Perpetua
I noticed a typo under Temp Ramp configuration (the only section I looked at, btw).
āWhile the lantern is on, clic, click, hold to changeā¦ā
I got the manual copy shortly after & looked it over. (sent you a message) Also any typos or errors you see, edit them if you can and send it back to Sofirn.
Regarding the manual, itās got a snippet in it for thermal config, but does the lantern have a temp sensor? I recall reading somewhere it didnāt but I could be mistaken. If not, that whole section could probably be removed.
The LT1 does not have any thermal sensor, as the driver board section is not conducting any heat form the head where the LEDs are. (that section for the thermal sensor can be omitted/removed.