What is your ratio of flashlights to lanterns?

About 30:1? And the one lantern is an old-school Coleman pump-up camp-fuel lantern...

Doesnt exist because I hate lanterns and dont own a single one. Flashlights can easily be used as a lantern

Had to do inventory…

23 flashlights, 9 ‘lanterns’

I started ‘collecting’ LED lights a few years ago because of the frequent power outages due to winter storms here. (now after 3+ years of drought, no long power outages to date) So may explain the lantern types.

3 of the big old 4D cell lanterns I converted to LED goose neck table/desk lights. Far more useful during power out. 1 Rayovac 3D and 4X small 4AA lanterns.
…and one old Coleman fuel mantle lantern (only for outdoor use)

I have a bunch of old Sanyo Cad-Nika D cells from 15 years ago, still working to almost original 4400mAh capacity (3.9Ah or so) plus some Tenergy D cells.

of 23 flashlights, 11 are single 18650; 3 throw, 3 pocket EDC, 5 P60 sized.
6 are various 2 AA, a few more single AA and AAA EDC.

+3X 3AA mule lights converted from old junk lights.

Now not counting the old 3D Mag conversions….

Ratio is about 10:1
I have 2 3xD cell lanterns. A Gentos warm white led (Rayovac Extreme Sports) from Japan
and another Varta lantern with similar build and output.

I also have a couple of 40mm diffusers for my Nitecore EA4 and Sunwayman D40A

When camping I tend to hang the Gentos from a tree branch facing downwards and stand the torches+ diffuser up on a table (or esky…)
I take a heap of NIMH AAs and run the lanterns with 3xAA D cell adapters

Tim

Wait, working lights or lights purchased and cannibalized, smoked or otherwise rendered kaput? Well I only have three lanterns, I thought I had only two until 8steve88 posted the Solarforce that I rarely use. So I have three lanterns. One old and quite bright 1960’s Coleman dual gas lantern with dual mantles that I run with white gas and a brighter Coleman propane lantern that puts out over 3000 lumens if the advertising is correct. (I think it does, compared to one of my 3K lumen lights) I can’t imagine camping without one of those lanterns. The only drawback to the lanterns is if you don’t have a bug fly or mosquito netting around your dining area while using the lamps. I have short hair so the moths and June-bugs are quickly removed. My girls have long hair and removing a June-bug is more time consuming and therefore exponentially more distressing.

about 10 to 3.

3 working flashlights. 0 lanturns. 1 medium sized pile of parts.

I am not good with math, so I will have to do a easy ratio to percentage. Plus I don’t have a accurate count of lights. :slight_smile: So, I will round things off.

about 200 lights, 7 of which are lanterns

So ratio to percentage: 3.50% of my lights are lanterns.

Hum…I need to bring that more in line and buy more lanterns now. :bigsmile:

Hundreds : 7

Of the 7 lanterns i converted 6 to warm white, for the seventh I’m still fighting with the heatsink.

5 of them are this 4xAA lantern:

It’s a kind of clone of the UltraFire ZF6248:
http://www.fasttech.com/product/1230501
A little demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PszlrClLuwE
Surprisingly, it’s “better” and cheaper than the original: grey, no blinky mode (despite what the packaging says), and around $17,50 (converted from EUR) before sales tax (well, the Euro is getting destroyed).
I’ll post a beginner-level how-to guide for the emitter swap the next days, I made a few photos while “mass-converting” three of them yesterday.

The other two are 3xD big ones, and harder to modify:

I have several others, but failed to mod them to something useful, so they are now scrap parts and I don’t count them.

Sounds good. I’m looking forward to your thread.

Here I’ve posted a step-by-step guide for the mentioned emitter swap:

I’m at about 60:1. I have an old 3xAAA lantern that I can’t bring myself to throw away.

About 10:1. I do have about 5 lanterns I'm cannibalizing to build a lighgthouse though. Just wish I could figure out how to use the leds from them as they are but I am currently only using the fresnel lenses.

5:1

Roughly 6:1

20:1

30:1

My only lantern is the streamlight mini siege and it works great!

Just guessing but around 30 to 1 something like that.

UPDATE: - now probably over 300 flashlights & 120 lanterns. TO MANY! :weary:

Dang, and I thought I had the bug bad. You make me feel like a piker.