what's your plan for the BLF LT1 Lantern?

addition to my other ā€˜shelf Queens.ā€™

Camping. Room lighting. I really want lots of optisolises on mine. Maybe we can start badgering clemence into making mcpcb for that.

Iā€™ll be using it in me shed
& in me lean to.

Mine will mostly be my bedside table reading lamp, but Iā€™ve been through 2 floods and 4 Hurricaneā€™s so Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™ll be using it for power outages too.

This needs to be a Working King though and not a Shelf Queen. :smiley:

aye aye sir :wink:

Being in Florida, between our crappy power grid and hurricane season, Iā€™ve been looking for a quality lantern for a while now. I also love camping and being outdoors, so itā€™ll get taken on trips frequently too. Also, I work backstage a lot during stage productions, so having a dimmable, controlled light with long run times could be really handy too.

Camping, work, and possibly portable home lighting charged off my solar array.

Where to begin!

3-point lighting for photography & video - tint, intensity, directional and mounting options are endless!

Emergency lighting in brownouts and power failures

Day-to-day home use. I have two Zanflare lanterns Iā€™ve used the $#17 out of and these LT1s will take over. I find tint-ramping lanterns have give such a pleasing lightā€¦

I plan on charging them with a 24w RAV solar panel and a 24 ah power bank just for the fun of it.

This is why collectors need to buy at least three LT1sā€¦

One in mint condition for their collection,

One daily driver,

and one for fidgeting and fondlingā€¦.

I knew there was a reason I should get more than one !

Camping (though camping season is over from my family for this year) will be the main use and I expect it will be used around the house for fun and occasional work. Looking forward to it arriving.

Exactly why Iā€™ve been on the list for 2+ yrs. Wish I had after Irma, having no grid juice for 10 days, and now Dorian moving in. I will say though, if you use Ryobi One+ interchangeable battery power tools, they have a high/low lantern that did rather well for me, lasting 2 nights on one charge with the standard battery. The new ones have a USB power supply now.

Oh man, all you guys talking about camping makes me itching to book a site next year to camp. Hopefully we can get the lantern(s) by then.

:+1:

Mostly camping but also emergency preparedness. I was just camping with friends and a buddy popped out his old coleman propane lantern. Itā€™s bright, but such a pain to use.

For energy density you canā€™t beat propane or white gas. But they are both a PITA to use with the mantles, at least thatā€™s been my experience. The mantles tend to break during transportation to and from the destination.

Iā€™m from England, in the winter it gets dark at 4pm for a few weeks, soā€¦

1. For work photography when we need more light or when thereā€™s a power cut, which is rare.
2. To encourage the family to go camping, I went once about 16 years ago.
3. For those candle light moments with ā€˜herā€™, without using a real candle.
4. Night BBQā€™s ā€¦ in the winter that would mean using BLT LT1 Lantern at 4pm :person_facepalming:

Maybe I should order another one?

Yeah, you definitely need another. One for work and one for home at a minimum. :smiley:

Good idea. :+1: I also need to look at spare batteries.

ā€œfour sofirn 3000mAh 18650 batteriesā€ ā€“ If I buy another four of these will my current charger work? Its the LlitoKala Engineer Lii 500.

Apologies, Iā€™m new to all this and its a little bit daunting at times.