Recommend a good focussed-beam LED camping lantern?

topic posted Sun, March 15, 2009 - 5:14 PM by  Tanemon
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I live in a fairly remote area, but am going to the big city and will do some shopping in about a week. I want to find an LED focussed-beam lantern that will be similar to the old, standard 6-volt incandescent-bulb reflector lanterns that were carried by car campers, fishermen, homeowners and others for at least a generation or two. You know, the chunky strong-beam lantern you could park on a rock or on the ground if you needed to - to give yourself and others lots of light on a trail or in an emergency situation.

In other words, NOT an ambientlight camp lantern (that spreads light all around like an old Coleman), not a tubular "flashlight", not a headlamp on a velcro-ed band, etc. I'm hoping to find one that can be bright when needed (may have multiple beam functions) and give lots of service on a single charge or single load of batteries - AND hopefully cost under $125.

If I can find an example on-line, I van print it out and take it with me to show sales people in the outdoor stores, and save time while shopping.

Can you help me? If you don't have a Web address I can look at, just describe what you bought and where you remember buying it, okay?
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Tanemon
Canada
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  • I think maybe I should emphasize that I'm looking for something that gives directional light - like those chunky, squarish flash-lanterns our dad's used to carry (the one's with either 4 D-cell batteries, or one chunky, squarish 6-volt battery inside). Only LED. So it can give 5 hours or more of light, if needed.

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