Rayovac SE3DLN Sportsman Xtreme 300-Lumen LED Lantern
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Rayovac SE3DLN Sportsman Xtreme 300-Lumen LED Lantern
Customer Review: Compact and bright.
Summary: 5 Stars
This lantern is extremely bright and yet in a very compact size. I used it with rechargeable batteries so using normal batteries it would be even brighter. All my friends at camping could not believe that it was LED and putting out so much light. The flood feature is great for lighting up the tent at night. Screwing on the base is tricky but very simple.Customer Review: Compact, bright, long-lived. But very glare-y if viewed directly
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very bright, very compact lantern with decent battery life.
I used mine for 5 nights (at least 50-60 hours) at various brightness levels without changing the 3 Rayovac D-cells. I hung it inside my tent by the smaller plastic hook, and despite a lot of high winds and tent swaying, it never threatened to come loose.
Quibbles: It takes a moment to line up the bottom (battery cover) with the lantern body. A screw-on style bottom would have been simpler. The light cast isn't continuous illumination like an incandescent bulb, but instead has "shadows" between segments of light. At "high" the lantern is painfully bright to look at directly.
For the size, price, and brightness, highly recommended.
Customer Review: Compact, lightweight and very bright
Summary: 5 Stars
This very compact lantern has an extremely bright, white (not purplish) light that is well diffused. It seems well made, with hard rubber bumpers that protect the top, bottom and sides.
The top diffuser comes off with a twist so the lantern can be hung upside- down on its hook, recessed in the base, to serve as a ceiling fixture.
The lantern has a high intensity, low intensity and strobe setting.
The only feature I found poorly thought out is the little flashing green LED above the power button. I suppose it's there either to reassure you the batteries are still good or to make it easy to find in the dark, but since it's recessed, you can see it only when looking straight at the LED. Some reviewers seemed concerned the flashing green LED will draw meaningful power and so drain the batteries, but I'm sure that it will have no measurable effect on battery life- it's tiny and dim and flashes for a very brief time, once every 5 seconds.
This is a very good lantern at a great price, and its small size makes it ideal for most camping situations.
Customer Review: Decent light
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, a good light for the money. I'm not sure about 300 lumens but the output is pretty good. The main two advantages of the light are the compactness of the lantern and the fact it can be hung from the bottom with the plastic cover removed for enhanced lighting. Keep in mind the light isn't that soft, clear LED but the price is right at $25.Customer Review: Difficult? Well, duh, no.
Summary: 5 Stars
This little lantern is I think about as good as you could wish for the price. We tested it in our bedroom which is about 15' x 25'and it illuminates the entire room, not enough to read by, but enough to find something and not bump into anything. You could read by it easily, within a yard or two. Our camping days are behind us, but I'm sure that it would light up all but the largest tents and it has a hook on the bottom in case you wanted a "chandelier." Since this is an L.E.D. lantern, those bulbs draw almost no power, so the 3 D-cells are "advertised" to last 70 or so hours on "bright" and I have no doubt that will be the case.
A number of reviews complain about the difficulty of getting the batteries in and closing it up. Well, duh! I am as clumsy as they come, but it took me about a minute and a half to do that. You look at the pictures embossed in the inside to see how to place the batteries and at the stickers to see how to line it up if it isn't obvious to you. If you are the type who chug-a-lugs a six pack, put the lantern together first.