Anyone got a zanflare T1 lantern?

I am really liking mine too. So far no problems at all.

Have you tried a long press on the rubber button?
That turns it off and skips the red modes.

Great photo plat, interesting to see the insides on these things, would have never guessed that is held together with zipties!

Looks like thermal glue under the LED boards, those who suggested the tailcap gets hot because the battery tube is a heatsink appear to have been spot on.

This threw me slightly first time I used mine, the long press on the rubber button is slightly longer than I’m used to.

I guess that answers my question…
Pity…

…and that raises my follow up question… :^D

Aren’t those the size of those Nichia LEDs Clemence sells, the newest very high CRI ones?
Looks like a b*tch to replace them though…

OK, I ordered a couple more.
One is perfect.
The other only operates the red leds, solid and blinky. The touch control is kaput. Only works with the bottom button.
I’m done with these.

I’ll bag the battery with the first one(always on), and only install it when needed.
The “red only” one goes in my spare tire compartment.

I just don’t want to deal with Chinese CS anymore. Life is too short and I have other priorities.

And yes I’ve RTFM.

I also have one like your problem
Once you put the battery it will turn on without touching the top switch. Cannot adjust the brighness on both tint. Just maximum cw and max nw. Cannot turn it off by pressing the bottom switch.

yeah, my one like that turns the red leds on/off with the bottom switch butt does not affect the others which remain on throughout.

Mine died today. Was using it everyday as a bedside lamp, and just stopped working. No reds, no light, nothing. Connected it to a usb charger and the nano led works, but not the lantern. Crap! :person_facepalming: I was enjoying it! :cry:
Time to make a video and open a ticket at Gearbest!

I had the same exact issue juhha.

This seems like a really good light, but I wanted one with 95+CRI swap. I have no idea why they needed so many LEDs. 2-4 even 8 I can understand, but over 60 seems too much. And very difficult to swap.

So far mine have been working great, although the tail caps do run hot. Not happy with that.

I am at day 8 of camping with my three T1s. One is used at adults tent for a few hours on min and a couple on ~medium. One is used at kids tent on min for a few hours and on red for the whole night. The third is being used outside for upto 6 hours in a day, med to high. I use warm color for 90% of the time with the provided batteries, charged once daily, each morning on a charger. I am a big fan of two memorized brightness modes… I leave T1 on lowest, cold white, when I am out and when I want to get something from the tent, I tap once for warm white at the level I left it. I miss a second touch-off switch, the one on the bottom is a little annoying to use and battery cap threads is a joke, really. Also, none of mine got hot on the battery cap.

Do I like them? Hell yes! Am I going to order two more? Absolutely! Do you need one? No, you need three.

Many LEDs means less current per LED and a more uniform beam. It’s good they’d choose this amount of LEDs, that’s how it become so demanded :wink:
Hopefully the LEDs last so long they don’t need to be replaced in years.
And for 90+ CRI you still can get the BLF lantern.

BLF lantern is not quite the same size class…

Hmmm…. i read of a lot of problems here…
The idea i like, but i think it’s too complex for the price.
All kinds of faillures seem to occur…

I.m.h.o. they should have made it with just 2500 to 3000K high CRI LEDs.
The touch sensor and brihtness ramping seem like a good idea, when it works properly and reliably…

It makes a nice and homogenous light with many tiny LEDs.
I think these are 0.2 Watt LEDs
0.2 × 30 = 6.0 Watts, should be capable of some 600 lumen, maybe 450 for warm white high CRI.
I guess they chose to run them low for better efficiency and thus less heat, so they can get away with a plastic exterior.

discovered a possibly dangerous flaw & fire/explosion hazard with this T1 lantern. ( read post #11 >> DBSAR Lantern Mini-Review: -Zanflare T1 (UPDATE: Second T1 failed! - #11 by DBSAR

Best Lantern on the market it beats them all this light is amazing everyone I show it to is sold I’ve bought like 20 of them and everyone wants more I have other lanterns a huge collection over the years and there all junk compared to the Zanflare T1 I been waiting to order more but BG still has not got them back in stock they had some a few weeks back and sold out before I got home from work I hope they get more I need about 20 to 30 more of them

The T1 has its issues.

I would wait until the new and improved version comes out.

It should be even better.

Agreed. I purchased two of these when they first came out. At first, I loved them. Then I noticed the tail cap on the battery tube was way too hot for my liking. After about 20 minutes I was reading around 60 degrees C on both. I’m sure the battery tube itself was hotter. I cleaned both the positive and negative ends with 99.9% Isorpopanol Alcohol. Didin’t help. Needless to say, I no longer use, or recommend these.

What do you do with all of them?