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Century LED Lantern

$21.95

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Item # 752738

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Lightweight and easy to carry, this LED lantern gives you bright, white light both indoors and out.

2 light settings allow you to control the brightness and set the mood
Built-in hanger lets you hang the lantern from a branch or inside your tent
Built-in compass gives you your bearings
Requires 4 C batteries, sold separately

Specifications based on manufacturer's information.

Imported.

Item 752738

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Century LED Lantern Customer Reviews

REVIEW SNAPSHOT®

by PowerReviews

Century LED Lantern

2.7

(based on 10 reviews)

50%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Compact (6)
Powerful light output (6)
Durable design (5)
Lightweight (4)
Easy to setup (3)

Cons

Poor light output (3)

Best Uses

Camping (8)
Emergencies (5)

- Reviewer Profile:
- Casual/ recreational (5), Avid adventurer (3)
- What Is Your Gear Style:
- Comfort driven (6), Survivalist / minimalist (3)
- Was this a gift?:
- No (4)

Reviews

Reviewed by 10 customers

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Jun

2008

(8 of 11 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Blinding light!

By triiiangle

from Sunnyvale, CA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Durable Design
Long Run Time
Powerful Light Output

Cons

Poor Light Output

Best Uses

Campgrounds
Emergencies

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

Let's start with the positives about the Century LED Lantern:
+ Sturdy design
+ Long run time
+ I like the hanging hook on the top
+ Affordable price

- Light is blindingly bright, but doesn't illuminate at all.

I returned this lantern after one camping trip. It's useless.

Apr

2010

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

3.0

Decent for the price

By balikian

from Seattle, wa

About Me Casual/ Recreational

See all my reviews

Pros

Compact
Durable Design
Powerful Light Output

Cons

Best Uses

Campgrounds

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

Like most other people mentioned, this guy is blindingly bright, but what I realized - the real problem is in the glass or plastic that surrounds the light. It's purely clear. I took some sandpaper and scratched it up to produce a more opaque glass and it works great, lights up well and does not blind anyone anymore. Give that a shot if you still have this guy.

Jul

2008

(2 of 5 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

What Were They Thinking?

By PDX Steve

from Portland, OR

About Me Avid Adventurer

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Pros

Cons

Best Uses

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

As the previous reviewer illuminated, Century somehow succeeded in making a lantern that's blindingly bright but fails to cast a light.

May

2011

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Epic Fail

By jibb0826

from Vail Valley, CO

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Compact
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

Bought this in preparation for a car camping trip to Moab at my local REI store. I've never had so many problems. Maybe it was just me, but the bottom was impossible to screw on with the batteries in. It took my husband 5 minutes after I spent 15.

Still not the main problem... We have a new tent, so we set it up to and put the latern in to see if it could hang from the top, lightweight made that possible. Too bad after turning it on twice and off once, the button stuck and the ONLY way to turn it off was to take the batteries out. Despite everything we tried, the button is stuck and this will be going back to REI.

Sep

2011

4.0

What the what? We liked it!!

By Outdoors in My Dreams

from Washington DC

About Me Casual/ Recreational

See all my reviews

Pros

Compact
Easy To Setup
Lightweight
Powerful Light Output

Cons

Difficult To Adjust

Best Uses

Campgrounds
Emergencies
Survival

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

[...]. We only read the reviews after purchasing, and almost returned it. However, it worked great on our trip, and during an Irene-related power outage. We set it on a small table in the tent and played a game of 'Trouble' while it poured rain outside. We also hung it at times and it gave enough light to function in our 6-person tent. To read with it you would need to have it close. We all enjoyed it! Especially considering the price!

Sep

2011

2.0

Not very good

By J screen name23

from SF

About Me Avid Adventurer

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Pros

Compact
Long Run Time

Cons

Broke immediately
Flimsy Design
Poor Light Output

Best Uses

Campgrounds
Emergencies
Survival

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

Badly designed. Button broke after only a few uses. It was pretty nice while it worked.

Oct

2010

5.0

Lots of Luminescence

By DuckSauce

from Portland, OR

About Me Environmentalist

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Pros

Compact
Durable Design
Easy To Adjust
Easy To Setup
Lightweight
Long Run Time
Powerful Light Output

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Campgrounds
Emergencies

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

Surprisingly bright light for such a small lantern, and really enabled me to get a few things done around my campsite when it got dark. Best part about this lantern was I took it on an 8 day camping trip in Montana and accidentally left the light on over night on the first day of the trip. The lantern maintained the same level of brightness for the next week and I didn't have to change the batteries. It was great.

Mar

2010

(0 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

3.0

Ok... For the price.

By LdyPhoenix

from Chicago, IL

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Durable Design
Easy To Adjust
Easy To Setup
Powerful Light Output

Cons

Poor Light Output

Best Uses

Campgrounds
Travel

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

We mostly car camp. This light is just like the other reviewers say. Blinding, but nearly useless. In a tent, it works nicely. Doesn't help with cooking or setting up camp. I did like the hook that flips out, it does make this light a little more useful.

Sep

2009

4.0

good tent light

By yozoe

from Minneapolis, MN

About Me Casual Adventurer

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Pros

Powerful Light Output

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Campgrounds
Emergencies

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

Great tent light. I didn't need to use my book light to read and the light dissipates well. I did try to use it as a flashlight to find my way to an outhouse at one point, and it was pretty useless at that. Fairly light. Can attach it to a backpack. A little bulky for long-term backpacking

May

2009

3.0

Adequately serves its purpose

By Crazy about camping

from Seattle, WA

About Me Avid Adventurer

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Pros

Compact
Durable Design
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Campgrounds

Comments about Century LED Lantern:

Like the other reviews said, the light output range could be better. However, I think it is adequate and serves its purpose for car camping. Light enough to hang from the center of a tent. Provides adequate light for getting adjusted, arranging the tent at night, etc. Nice because the light is not so bright that you will annoy other campers. Not as bright as a standard lantern though if that is what you are looking for.