The lantern arrived two days ago, and I am totally impressed. Definitely worth the money ... the way the lighting is arranged is tomorrow's state-of-the-art LED technology, today. It amazing how far LED lighting has come.
The lamp is physically a bit smaller than you might expect, but that in no way diminishes its performance. Everything feels substantial and rock-solid. The on-off switch clicks on and turns with an oily smoothness as the illumination gradually morphs from candlelight to medium candlelight to bright candlelight (the orangey LED's look like three tiny vertical 2.5 cm neon tubes suspended within the lamp ... plus there are four more normal orange LED "potlights" on the "ceiling" ... along with the 16 warm-white LED's (in a ring but not visible on the same ceiling of the chamber) that kick-in after the bright orange wanes ... and start to add their glow and power ... until it all looks like a "normal" warm white incandescent light bulb. The transitions are seamless.
Everything seems top-dollar ... the glass globe looks and feels like it's about 2 mm thick. And is protected with a stout metal cage. Everything else is metal, too. And it's held together with Torx screws ... not cheap-ass rivets.
Bottom line? Those of you who follow Wranglerstar on Youtube will totally understand when I say that it definitely gives me the fizz.
One important heads-up/warning. The lantern comes with one charging cord (and no power block), and (unlike most charging cords) it is the
little USB-C connectors at
both ends. Like most of y'all I have a big selection of charging cords and power blocks/sources ... but they all have at least one standard full-sized USB connector.
I was suddenly SOL.
Fortunately, the lantern also has an alternate provision (on its bottom) to use a magnetic charging cable (equipped with a standard full-sized USB plug) to connect with all the widely common standard full-sized USB power source ... my 21" iMac ... and a whole bunch of other electric interfaces.
But such a cord is not included with the lantern ...
But ... just as fortunately, the Olight Odin Mini weapon-light that I bought a few months ago
was provided with one of Olight's magnetic charging cables with the crucial standard full-sized USB connector at the other end, and it worked fine (charging from my iMac) on the lantern. However, the magnetic connector takes longer ... apparently 10 hours "to fill an empty tank" as opposed to four hours with the supplied corded double USB-C cable. So, buyers should be aware of this and make sure they have something (on hand) that works.
EDIT - August 28 - Here's a well-done and accurate review. Worth noting ... this guy's lantern apparently came with Olight's magnetic-connector charging cord. Mine (as noted in my comment) did not. Mine just had the double USB-C connecting cord.
