Blues Traveler
08-08-2008, 12:12 AM
Yea, I know another lantern review. Im starting to think LED lights and lanterns are like computers. You no sooner upgrade to whats the best at the time and then its improved again. Well I was at REI a couple of weeks ago and as usual I was draw like a moth over to the flashlights and lanterns.
I saw this: http://www.rei.com/product/768658
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d59/ownst1100/1552013.jpg
In the store I was simply amazed at how brite it was under the store lighting. I wanted one but the $50 price tag made me put it back on the shelf.
DOH! I was back the following week, I had to have one. I brought back an unused frying pan I bought a few months earlier and used it toward the purchace of the Apollo. Used it camping for the first time last weekend and was absolutly thrilled with it. It puts out un unbelievable amount of light. Runs on 4 AA's and is suppose to be good for 60 hrs. Turn it on, hold down the button and it slowly dims down. When it flickers its telling you its reached full dim. Hold it down again and it gets brite once again and flickers again when it up all the way.
Here's a little clip I found doing a Google for more info posted on Youtube, its in a foreign language. show someone getting a demonstration in a store somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9sKVwkHcOE
Unbelievably brite for a single LED lantern. How much better can they get? Its got to stop somewhere. Even has a charging port for a rechargable battery pack offered for another $30.
So..............until someone makes a better one i'll have to live with the Apollo.:cool:
I saw this: http://www.rei.com/product/768658
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d59/ownst1100/1552013.jpg
In the store I was simply amazed at how brite it was under the store lighting. I wanted one but the $50 price tag made me put it back on the shelf.
DOH! I was back the following week, I had to have one. I brought back an unused frying pan I bought a few months earlier and used it toward the purchace of the Apollo. Used it camping for the first time last weekend and was absolutly thrilled with it. It puts out un unbelievable amount of light. Runs on 4 AA's and is suppose to be good for 60 hrs. Turn it on, hold down the button and it slowly dims down. When it flickers its telling you its reached full dim. Hold it down again and it gets brite once again and flickers again when it up all the way.
Here's a little clip I found doing a Google for more info posted on Youtube, its in a foreign language. show someone getting a demonstration in a store somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9sKVwkHcOE
Unbelievably brite for a single LED lantern. How much better can they get? Its got to stop somewhere. Even has a charging port for a rechargable battery pack offered for another $30.
So..............until someone makes a better one i'll have to live with the Apollo.:cool: