It’s bought as an out of doors camplight, however BougeRV’s very vivid LED lantern is known as a multifunctional work lamp for anyplace that wants an additional dose of lighting. It’s rechargeable and compact sufficient to function a long-lasting flashlight with three swiveling LED panels that may direct 3000 lumens onto your desk, campsite, workspace, or engine block from a peak of greater than 5 toes due to its telescoping aluminum pole.
I’ve discovered it impressively versatile and helpful over the past week of testing at dwelling, on the seaside, or tooling round in my camper van. It offers heat or chilly mild precisely the place I would like it, with three ranges of brightness starting from dim to supernova.
At $109.99, the BougeRV Outdoor Portable Telescopic Camping Lantern can be extra succesful than a lot of its costlier opponents. There’s loads to love right here.
At the guts of this lantern is a 57.7Wh battery that may energy the lamp on its lowest setting for as much as 60 hours, or about three hours when all three LED strips are set to max brightness. You can energy it off USB-C from a separate exterior battery or wall jack in case you want extra time. It’s slim sufficient to hold within the water bottle pocket of a backpack, however its 2.3-pound (1kg) weight is a bit a lot for many gram-counting adventurers.
The lantern is constructed across the quantity three. There are three retractable legs that may be secured with three included pegs to function a sturdy base for the three LED panels raised as much as 64.57 inches (164 cm) off the bottom. You can independently activate one, two, or three of the LED panels set to 3 intensifying brightness ranges through the cluster of three buttons on the highest of the unit.
There is, nevertheless, only one lamp for the flashlight, one hook on the underside, and one slider swap to forestall the sunshine from by accident turning on. There’s additionally one USB-C jack that each costs the lantern in about 4 hours and costs your devices at as much as 22.5 watts.
At first, the articulating segments that rotate, fold, and slide could be a bit a lot. But I quickly mastered the buttons and actions wanted to retract and broaden the lantern into the illuminated origami of my selecting. In common, the aluminum and plastic meeting feels sturdy sufficient, however I’m wondering how these prolonged mild arms will maintain up after just a few falls, particularly when the aluminum pole is totally prolonged. It is IP54 rated so it ought to show resistant to rain showers and dirt.
The solely factor I miss on the BougeRV lantern is a magnetic base — a helpful function on the Evo Lantern from Flextail. Other than that, the BougeRV lantern beats the five hundred lumen Flextail in virtually each approach, regardless of costing $40 much less and being roughly the identical dimension.
I didn’t anticipate to love the BougeRV Outdoor Portable Telescopic Camping Lantern this a lot. But it’s so adaptable, helpful, and fairly priced that I simply can’t assist myself.
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