Hi everyone, amazing forum here.
We have an old cottage in Canada without electricity where we've used Coleman Lanterns for the past 50+ years. We are renting the place out to more people lately, and for a number of reasons we'd prefer that guests not use the Coleman fuel lanterns (this became more of an issue after a guest filled one of them with Kerosene last summer).
We are looking for an LED solution that will get us a lot of light. Typically we use 2 or 3 Lanterns in the cabin which from what I understand throw about 1,000+ lumens each? (they are 2 mantle lanterns, 20 years old...)
How do the new LED lanterns compare? Obviously they are much less bright on an individual basis, but If we had 6 or 8 of the 400 Lumen battery powered LED lanterns would that compare? We would be happy to spend $100 or $200 on good LED lanterns to generate equivalent light and have guests bring their own batteries.
I'm not a "light guy" so thanks in advance for any advice.
CanadaG
We have an old cottage in Canada without electricity where we've used Coleman Lanterns for the past 50+ years. We are renting the place out to more people lately, and for a number of reasons we'd prefer that guests not use the Coleman fuel lanterns (this became more of an issue after a guest filled one of them with Kerosene last summer).
We are looking for an LED solution that will get us a lot of light. Typically we use 2 or 3 Lanterns in the cabin which from what I understand throw about 1,000+ lumens each? (they are 2 mantle lanterns, 20 years old...)
How do the new LED lanterns compare? Obviously they are much less bright on an individual basis, but If we had 6 or 8 of the 400 Lumen battery powered LED lanterns would that compare? We would be happy to spend $100 or $200 on good LED lanterns to generate equivalent light and have guests bring their own batteries.
I'm not a "light guy" so thanks in advance for any advice.
CanadaG