*BLF LT1 Lantern Project) (updated Nov,17,2020)

Put me down for one please, dependant on price and absolutely no detectable PWM.

I am almost with you, I’d love to see a really good led lantern come to life. But there’s one thing that all that plastic garbage has to its advantage, and that is the use of safe chemistry batteries. So I’m not really sure I would like to see this with 18650 batteries, but perhaps rather with AA-type batteries. It will be a bit less compact but much easier to sell or give away.

I’m definitely interested

I’m in for sure

Definitely interested - Great concept

We have a plastic thingy with
Solar panel Ln top costs were $16,-
Crank in bottom
Shaped like those old fashion storm lanterns.
The light it produces is not warm but we used it camping and it sits next to the kitchen door
We have cranked it up once but the solar charging has provided light for about a year now when we needed it.
Is it possible to sacrifice the space of 1 cell for charging parts? Solar panel on top, crank at bottom? Maybe USB out port for cellphones.
To have that in a nice ALU housing would be very nice.

I was planning on just using a diffuser with a modded SRK but this is a much cooler project!

But as you go right now I am interested so put me on the list.

I have a few lanterns but none run off of 18650s . I could use one of these!

Interested

Definitely interested.

interested

Oh yeah, just what I’m looking for. Count me in. I camp with the kids several weeks out of the year. If it could switch from white to red light like the Fenix CL25R can, that would be a big bonus in my book.

Interested, depending on the price.

Interested depending on price.

That’s a good question. This one here was one i had sitting around since last year unused or modded, it was a random 4-emitter one i won from ebay for 23 bucks. It had four XM-Ls on separate 16mm stars cemented to a aluminum plate that is roughly1/8” thick and threaded into the body right below the lens.

Interested

Interested depending on price.
Great concept.

How about a smaller one too? 1 or 2 cells?

Are there any good dome-shaped diffusers already on the market that fit a SRK ?

You know , for us budget guys …

Side story …

During our last hurricane-induced power outage I noticed that all of my flashlights were not in their usual place when I went to get one .

After a brief search , I found that my daughter had all of them ~~ tailstanding on her bathroom counter on high~~ so she could apply her makeup .

Apparently , this procedure requires a lot of light .

Which she had plenty of .

:smiley:

I wonder what she thinks of the strobe mode for that activity.