The necro- is unavoidable. A more up-to-date link is here:

https://luminaid.com/collections/eme...-solar-lantern.

These things in their flat mode would be, once charged, a helluva light asset. I have three of the basic Paklite 16s and have modded one by simply removing the inflatable section and using as a quite powerful flashlight.

I do wish that they had come up with one that had just red, like a highway flare, but still maintained a flashing capability.

The later variants that come with a micro USB charging capability are promising... the idea of a wallwart with a USBmicro line snaking into a BOB, and then when it comes to be GO time, unplugging the wallwart and stuffing it into the BOB...what, five seconds.... not all that bad. And I'd not mind doing testing with my K-tor generator to see how long it takes to charge on that.

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