what's up everyone I'm Miranda I'm ho tech and this is another episode of the
REI gear guys we're out here in the rainy Pacific Northwest to talk about
the best lanterns that you can find at REI this year so to decide our lanterns
for this year we looked at customer reviews we talked to our members and our
customers when they were picking them out and then we took a bunch of these
guys out and we test them out in the field and our first category is the best
lanterns for car camping and our pick was the goal zero lighthouse 400 so we
chose the best Lantern for car camping we were looking for something that was
super bright and had a lot of variety for hanging options as well as something
that could be charged many different ways and that's how we landed on the
gold zero lighthouse 400 so that 400 stands for 400 lumens which is the
maximum brightness of this lantern but actually goes to different light
settings as well as the dimming option so you can have the lantern turned on
all the way on both sides this or you can have it turned on only on one side
Stephen has a light face it does also have a red light setting as you can
press this button and then you will get a red light that flashes up top this is
more for emergencies are like finding a site ya are finding your site again than
it is for life there's also two different options for hanging this
letter for using this lantern you can hang it with this guy here and then you
can also use the legs like we have it this is really great for putting it on
tabletops where this is better for hanging it that you can also fold up the
legs make the whole thing a little bit shorter like this and then one of the
cool things about it because the goal 0 Lantern there's a whole bunch of
different ways you can charge it so you can hook it up through USB to charge it
up you can also set it up through a solar panel
bull zero solar panel sold separately and finally if you're in kind of a pinch
you can actually run the hand crank on it and a minute of crank on this guy
will give you ten minutes of light yeah great for emergencies great for
entertaining kid yes definitely good entertaining kids yeah so this guy when
he's fully juiced up will without charging any electronics cuz it can
charge electronics out of this USB it'll give you between two and a half hours to
48 hours depending on your brightness settings yeah
the next category for lanterns that we have is the best lantern for backpacking
and for that we chose the pack light max phone charger lantern by illuminate
so the reason why we chose the luminate is because it's pretty bright but also
it's super super packable and really really really lightweight yeah and it
also charges off of the solar panel so this is great for backpacking the
ancient you don't have to worry about carrying extra batteries with you
wonderful thing about the illuminate is that like I said it does charge off the
solar panel it'll take how long is it like roughly 12 hours and full Sun to
charge like this but if the battery is fully charged you can use this provide a
little bit of additional extra charge to your devices by plugging them in the
able USB port here you do have this hanging strap on the top here that gives
you three different puts essentially and then you have four different brightness
settings in a strobe two three hey-ya hey-ya
but it packs super small it is an error inflated light so this is just like a
pillow means you can also float it but this is why I like it because I can just
drop this into my bag and then show this dropping to oh yeah yeah
just like that and the cool thing about this is that because it straps on the
backside here you can attach it to a daisy chain on your pack and then the
solar panel is still slowly revealed yep charging all day while you're hiking
totally so yeah that is the luminaid and again we really like this Lantern
because not only can you get the solar charge out of it but you can provide a
little additional charge to electronics pack super small super lightweight super
bright all pretty groovy yeah our next category or the best lanterns
and get for under $20 and for that we chose the Black Diamond devotee so we
chose these lights for the best you can get for under 20 bucks because they
offer a lot of brightness they're just really convenient and cute and you can
dim them all the way down right right so you can control them I like them because
you can hang them up in your tents off of this you can also use it as just like
a really really nice little handheld light if it's in your hands oh wow yes
because it's so cute right these guys run off to phase so right there so just
putting some extra batteries make sure you can reload the things go sideways
out there I come in a variety of colors yep and yeah they're great I mean this
is my this is my go-to Lantern yeah yeah I think a lot of us really like things
just because of their simplicity and how small they are
they are best hanging if you just have them on the ground up like this and
they're at full brightness they're kind of like right in your face so now our
guys can you hang them yep and then our next category is the best Lantern that
we like for group camps and that is going to be the bio light base camp
so our top pick for best lantern for Group camping is the violight based
lanterns plot this ledger is really cool because it essentially functions as a
base camp for all of your lighting needs and it's got a fun a few really neat
features in terms of how it charges and how I can charge other things so what
you can do this guy is this is your power in and you can charge that guy in
through USB a pretty standard but you can also hook it up to any of the bio
light stuff so there's bio light solar panels you can also hook up to the bio
light stove you can charge it off of that and you can actually charge out
with it too so you can charge the two things at once right over there
and this guy's good for seventy eight hundred milliamps and it also is
obviously a light in and of itself and so if you press the button on the top
you'll get basically the flight setting from either side you can also get a
single sided light and a red light setting now one really cool thing about
the base Lantern is that this has the ability to hook up to a Bluetooth app on
your phone which here me out is actually really awesome
so you can do all sorts of different light settings with this you can have a
strobe setting you can do different colors you know solid colors it really
like is the life of the party as far as lanterns go and there's also some pretty
cool ports on the other side where you can hook in other bio light lanterns
we're going to show you that so this is the bio light sight lamp sight light and
the way this guy works is that you plug them in up here
and there we go and then these guys actually break apart so you have
multiple lights right here and you're gonna have this guy turned on and then
you can also adjust these guys separately but if you're using the app
with the base lantern you can adjust how bright these are or turn these on or off
from this light itself that's pretty cool it is pretty cool it also packs
down to be about the size of a sandwich
five yeah and our next category is going to be our
best non electric lantern that's going to be the Coleman dual fuel so all the
other lanterns that we've talked about have been battery operated
electro lanterns some of them kind of on the like high-end tech I guess and so if
you're looking for something more traditional that is non electric you can
get some yeah so this laser actually runs on liquid gas no batteries and yeah
it more it's warm yeah it's a worm thank you super super bright but it's always a
warm light it is always a warm light a little more like old-school traditional
before totally and if you take care of the new things will last a really long
time they have a lot of moving parts in he says but many of them are replaceable
and fixable and also it uses mantle so while the
mantle is that it uses our fragile it's those little things so the waste guy
works is you're gonna pump them up just like that and then you're gonna turn
them on with this switch and you're gonna pop a little match right there and
one over on this side and not a lot of your lanterns then you'll be good to go
and those missiles do you want to pre burn them before you use them in the
field this could have more than any of the
other lanterns you probably want to be familiar with it before you take it out
but again it's a really nice bright comfortable more like traditional style
of light you can always follow the manufacturer's instructions as you
should another gonna be lanterns is that wall
they're a little bit larger and bulkier you can buy cases for them so it makes
easier to kind of all yeah keep some protective so because these lanterns do
burn fuel they are for outdoor use only do not put these in your tent you should
also be like a little bit cautionary about how you're using them and make
sure that you're just being safe in general that's it for lanterns thanks
for watching and if you want to come into the Royal
REI and talk to the experts there we'll see you on the trail stay dry