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.
- is cool blue light mode with brightness ramping
- is a selected color temp mode that ramps up and down
- 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.