These lanterns are meant to withstand a lot of heat and with all the frame made from steel, (many older models like the 236 - 237 used solid cast brass burners and gas frames, which make great heatsinks.
The diffuser is one i salvaged from an old garden LED light, with a piece of white hair-net over it to simulate a lantern mantle.
I know, thats why i am sure they would handle LED heat without difficulty unlike dollar store lanterns.
If there is a cheap diffuser available that would be great for this mod.
So far of all the diffusers i tried (even factory ones) the one that came with my Sunwayman F40A is the best i tried with the least loss of LED output.
How hot does the lamp get when running on fuel? Wouldn’t you be in the dark for a while waiting for it to cool down, if you ran fuel first and had to switch?
Wow, what a creative and useful idea, I love it! I remember my lantern getting hot enough to give very serious burns. In the dark while it cools down? You do know that this is a *flashlight* forum right?
Well, I was thinking about the area lighting. Of course a flashlight counts as light, but isn’t really the same as a lantern. Then again, if he had Dale’s 14,000 lumen monster XHP70 Triple, he could hang it in a tree somewhere near camp and have daylight!
A custom sound module would be cool, you could select from different noises. I believe car companies have gotten a bit creative on sound modules for hybrid cars so people can hear them in parking lots, especially the blind.
Really neat build. Who would do such a thing? I wish I thought of it! I love how unique, intelligent and straight forward this design is. It must have been a real struggle to keep it so simple and clean even with that remote. (If it wasn’t a struggle then lie, embellish a bit to make me feel better about myself) Nice, keep it up.
I have been doodling ideas for a lamp for camping use this summer and true to form for me, they are overly complex with liquid cooling and fans and yadda, yadda. I’m going to have to scrap all that. I can get the 2000 lumens in a much more simple format and spend less time and money on it. Your design sets a great example in design philosophy that I need to learn/ integrate.
A similar set up using a modded 105C Q-lite Rev. with zener, eight 18650 cells in 2S4P Config with a MT-G2 on a small Computer CPU heat-sink will give you your 2000 lumens and reasonable run times in a modded lantern. ( i am already working on another lantern with that set up.)