Camping High Life

An LED wind up lantern is an excellent choice in area lighting whether you intend to use it for camping or for illuminating a family room card game during a power outage.  This type of lantern has many advantages over other types of lanterns due to its LED bulbs, the fact that it doesn’t need batteries, and that neither fuel or ventilation are required to use it.

Many lanterns and flashlight use incandescent bulbs.  These bulbs have served their purpose for many years now – since the time of Edison, but it’s about time that they were retired.  They are not very energy efficient, and they are quite fragile because of the filament.  Compare this to LED bulbs, which are both quite energy efficient and incredibly tough.  They also have a long useable life, and it’s quite possible the LEDs in your lantern will outlive you.  This makes them the best choice as far as lantern bulbs go.

The wind up feature of an LED wind up lantern is also an excellent add-on to a normal lantern.  While they do make some crank lanterns that don’t have batteries, it’s probably best that you purchase one with a rechargeable battery.  This gives you the best of both worlds – you can use the power of the rechargeable battery if you are able to, but the operation of your lantern is entirely dependent on those batteries.  If you need light in an emergency, you might end up finding your battery powered flashlight completely drained.  If you’ve got a wind up lantern, you just crank it for a minute or two, and you’ll have light for anywhere from 10-20 minutes depending on its crank ratio.

Finally, unlike traditional lanterns, wind up lanterns don’t require fuel.  A traditional lantern uses liquid fuel, fire, and a mantle to provide its light.  This presents a number of problems, including the potential for fire, the need to use the lantern in open areas so you don’t breath in the CO2 it emits, and the fact that they can be kind of difficult to start.  Your wind up lantern only shares one of these traits, and that is that it too can be difficult to start due to the cranking, but it’s still quite a bit more safe and convenient to use than the traditional lantern.

Clearly, if you need a lantern, an LED wind up lantern with  a rechargeable battery is going to be your best option.  It avoids the problems of the other types of lanterns, improves upon many of the positives, and has few negatives.

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