Ozark Trail Lantern, retail $9.82* (www.wall*mart.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown) for Wall*Mart
Last updated 05-26-20
The Ozark Trail Lantern is part of a six-piece package that also includes two LED flashlights, two LED penlights, and an LED headlamp.
For this review, I'll only be focusing on the lantern.
This lantern uses a high-powered phosphor white LED inside a transparent colorless "globe", and is under a diffusing white plastic dome. Near the top of the lantern is a silvery plastic dome that helps to reflect some of the light that would otherwise be wasted.
In the base of the lantern is a remarkably potent blue LED; the purpose of which is still a bit of a mystery.
The lantern has three operating modes plus OFF.
And it gets its power from four AAA cells, which are included in the package.
* This comes as a six-piece set, including this lantern, two flashlights, two pen lights, and a head lamp all for $9.82.
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To use the lantern, feed it first (see directly below) and THEN you'll be ready to go camping or brighten up that room aftr a power failure.
To turn the lantern on in "lantern" mode, firmly press & release black button that you'll find on the lantern's blue base.
To turn the lantern part off and turn the blue LED in the base on, press & release that button again.
To switch that blue LED on in "blink" mode, press & release that button again.
Finally, to turn the lantern off, press & release that button again.
To change the AAA cells in this lantern, unscrew and remove the black disc on the lantern's base, huck it at that pesky grizzly bear that's been going through the garbage at your camp so that the bear thinks that it's a yummy piece of garbage, tries to eat it, finds it distasteful so that it spits the disc out, and then squats over it and pisses on it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.
Remove the tired old AAA cells and dispose of them into the dustbin (garbage can) or drop them into the battery recycling box if your community has a battery reclamation program in place.
Install four new AAA cells, orienting them so that their flat-ends (-) negatives face the springs for them in each compartment.
Finally, screw that black disc back on.
Aren't you glad that you didn't chuck it at that hungry grizzly bear that really needed to go poddy now?
This lantern would almost certainly shatter into hundreds of sharp little pieces if I attempted to perform, "The Smack Test" on its, so I won't be doing that test unless somebody specifically asks me to.
Ok, somebody did request this test, so here goes:
The Ozark Trail Lantern passed this test remarkably easily; there is some scuffing and very minor gouging on the lantern's umbrella and on its base where it impacted the brick wall, but otherwise it seems none the worse for wear.
The purpose of The Smack Test isn't to see how badly damaged the external parts of the lantern would become; it gauges how well (or how poorly) the LED and driver circuit handles the instantaneous G-forces encountered during this test. As I said just a bit earlier, The Ozark Trail Lantern very unexpectedly aced the test.
Since this lantern is not all that water-resistant (air leaked rather handily around the switch button when it was suctioned), this section of the web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a metal flashlight or lantern.
Lantern shown lighting up the vanity in my bathroom (white LED).
Lantern shown lighting up the vanity in my bathroom (blue LED).
Spectrographic analysis of the white LED in this lantern.
Spectrographic analysis of the white LED in this lantern; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 460nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 450.470nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at ol-white.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this lantern.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this lantern; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 450nm and 470nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 457.170nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at ol-blue.txt
A beam cross-sectional analysis would normally appear here, but the ProMetric System
that I use for that test was destroyed by lightning in mid-July 2013.
Brief video on YourTube showing the Ozark Trail Lantern being switched through its modes.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit (the entire kit actually) was purchased from the proprietor of the Happy Market located at the intersection of N. Maple Ave. and W. Shields Ave. in Fresno CA. USA on 04-29-20.
He offered to sell it to me; of course since I've been running this website for over 20 years, I took the bate.
* This comes as a six-piece set, including this lantern, two flashlights, two pen lights, and a head lamp all for $9.82.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
The price is most definitely right!
Decent intensity
Relatively smooth light distribution
Batteries it needs are common and relatively inexpen$ive
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
Not very water-resistant; use it for fairweather camping trips only
MANUFACTURER:
PRODUCT TYPE: Multifunction LED lantern
LAMP TYPE: Unknown-type high-power phosphor white LED, 5mm blue LED
No. OF LAMPS: 2 (1 ea. white and blue)
BEAM TYPE: Toroidial (doughnut-shaped) 360° Y-axis, ~270° X-axis
REFLECTOR TYPE: Silvery dome inside the lantern toward its top
SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/mode change/off on base
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: LEDs protected by toroidial plastic window
BATTERY: 4x AAA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 171.40mA (white LED), 33.10mA (blue LED)
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Light sprinkle-resistance at minimum
SUBMERSIBLE: I don't believe so, no
ACCESSORIES: 17x AAA cells*
SIZE: 349mm H x 153mm max. dia.
WEIGHT: 150g (5.290 oz. incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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