{ "id": "retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern", "sku": "retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern", "title": "Retro Rechargeable Camping Lantern", "slug": "retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern", "price": 124.99, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "camp-lighting", "category_label": "Lanterns & Headlamps", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://camping.net.nz/dropship-images/camp-lighting/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/main-retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern.jpg", "https://camping.net.nz/dropship-images/camp-lighting/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern-2.jpg", "https://camping.net.nz/dropship-images/camp-lighting/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern-3.jpg", "https://camping.net.nz/dropship-images/camp-lighting/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern-4.jpg", "https://camping.net.nz/dropship-images/camp-lighting/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern-5.jpg", "https://camping.net.nz/dropship-images/camp-lighting/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern-6.jpg", "https://camping.net.nz/dropship-images/camp-lighting/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "USB-C rechargeable with a 2600 mAh lithium battery, two brightness settings, 360 degree LED glow and a built-in hook for tents, trees and tabletops.", "description": "The problem with camping after dark\n\nDaylight hides a lot of bad planning. You can find the tent pegs, read the stove instructions and tell which bag has the sleeping mats. Then the sun goes and suddenly everything takes three times longer.\n\nHead torches are brilliant for walking and useless for sitting still. Point your face at the chopping board and the person across the table gets a beam in the eyes. Phone torches drain the one battery you actually need. Candles and gas lanterns throw lovely light and also throw heat, fumes and a small fire risk inside a nylon tent.\n\nA rechargeable lantern fixes the gap. It sits in one place, lights everything around it at once and does not need a flame. This one goes a step further by looking like something you would be happy to have on a table at home rather than a chunk of grey plastic you hide in the shed.\n\nHow this lantern works\n\nInside the retro shell is a single LED rated at 5 watts, with a 360 degree beam angle. That beam angle is the number that matters most. It means light leaves the lantern evenly in every direction instead of being pushed forward into a cone. Hang it in the middle of a tent and the corners get lit too.\n\nPower comes from a built-in 2600 mAh lithium battery. There are no loose cells to lose or replace. You charge it through a Type-C port at 5 volts and 1 amp, which is the same connector on most recent phones, tablets and headphones. That one detail saves a surprising amount of hassle. On a long weekend you can top it up from a power bank in the tent, from a car socket on the drive, or from a wall plug at a holiday park.\n\nThere are two brightness modes, full and half. One button cycles between them. The product details list a battery life figure of 7.75 hours, which comfortably covers an evening from sunset to bedtime, and you get more from the lower setting than the higher one.\n\nThe body is ABS plastic with a powder coated finish, listed in black, and it is rated water resistant. The lantern measures 14.5 x 11 x 18.5 cm, so it packs down into a camp box without eating all the space.\n\nWho it suits\n\nFamily campers get the most obvious benefit. One lantern on the table covers dinner, card games and the search for a missing shoe. Hang it inside the tent later and it becomes a gentle room light that nobody has to hold.\n\nCaravan and campervan owners like USB-C lights because most vans already run USB sockets off the leisure battery. Charging the lantern costs almost nothing in power and means you are not running the van's ceiling lights all evening.\n\nPeople who want a backup at home are the quiet second audience. Storms, grid faults and tripped breakers all arrive without notice, and a torch in a drawer only helps one person at a time. A charged lantern on a shelf lights a whole kitchen. If you are shopping for the best emergency power outage light rather than a camping product, this works just as well in a hallway as it does in a field.\n\nIt also suits anglers, balcony dinners, garden evenings and the sort of blackout night where kids want something friendly glowing in the corner. A battery powered tent lamp with no flame is a much easier thing to leave on than a candle.\n\nWho it suits less: anyone needing a focused long-distance beam for hiking in the dark, and anyone who needs a light that survives being dropped in water. Water resistant means rain and splashes, not immersion.\n\nHow to choose between lanterns\n\nA few questions sort out most of the confusion.\n\nHow long do you need it to run in one go? If your evenings are two or three hours, almost any lantern copes. If you want it on from dusk until the small hours across several nights with no charging, you want either a larger battery or a plan for recharging. A 2600 mAh cell with a listed 7.75 hour life is a solid single-evening light with room to spare, and a small power bank turns it into a multi-night one.\n\nHow will you mount it? Hooks and flat bases do different jobs. This one has both, which is why it works as a hanging camp light in a tent and a table lamp outside it. If a lantern only stands upright, you will end up propping it on an upturned mug at some point.\n\nWhat charging port does it use? USB-C is worth holding out for. Older micro USB lights mean carrying a second cable for the sake of one item. Disposable battery lanterns mean buying cells you will forget to pack.\n\nHow bright do you actually need? People overestimate this. Full campsite brightness is useful for an hour of cooking, and then you want it lower. Two settings covers that honestly. Ten settings sound better on paper and mostly mean more button presses in the dark.\n\nDoes it look like something you want on a table? Not a serious engineering question, but a real one. A lantern you like the look of gets used at home between trips. A grey plastic one lives in a box.\n\nGetting the best out of it\n\nHang it high. Light falls, so a lantern at head height in a tent lights far more floor than the same lantern sitting on the groundsheet. A simple cord loop in the tent apex is all you need.\n\nUse half brightness as your default and save full output for jobs. Your eyes adjust to the dark surprisingly well, and the lower setting is kinder to everyone trying to sleep nearby.\n\nCharge it before the trip, not during it. A full battery at the car park beats a half charge and good intentions. If you are out for more than two nights, throw a small power bank in the same bag so the two live together.\n\nKeep the port clean. Sand is the enemy of every charging socket on a campsite. Brush the area before plugging in, and keep the cover closed the rest of the time.\n\nCare and storage\n\nCleaning is simple. Wipe the ABS housing with a soft, damp cloth and dry it off. Do not scrub the powder coated finish with anything abrasive and do not run it under a tap.\n\nDry it properly before it goes away. The most common way outdoor lights die is not rain on a trip, it is three weeks sealed in a damp bag afterwards.\n\nDo not leave the battery flat for long stretches. Lithium cells are happiest stored with some charge in them. A quick top-up every couple of months during the off season keeps it ready, which is exactly what you want if the lantern doubles as your blackout light.\n\nKeep it out of extreme heat. A car boot in summer is one of the worst places to store any battery product. A cupboard indoors is better.\n\nThe short version\n\nThis is a compact, rechargeable LED lantern with a retro hurricane-lamp look and genuinely useful guts. A 5 watt LED spreads light 360 degrees, a built-in 2600 mAh lithium battery charges over USB-C, and two brightness modes cover both the busy part of the evening and the quiet part. The listed battery life is 7.75 hours.\n\nIt hangs from a hook or sits on a table, the ABS housing is water resistant for dew and showers, and at 14.5 x 11 x 18.5 cm it packs small. If you want one light that handles tent camping, caravan evenings, garden dinners and the next time the power goes out, this covers all four without looking out of place in any of them.", "llm_summary": "The Yizhet retro rechargeable camping lantern is a portable LED light with a vintage hurricane-lamp shape. It uses a single 5 W LED with a 360 degree beam angle, powered by a built-in 2600 mAh lithium battery that recharges through a Type-C port at 5 V, 1 A. Two brightness modes are available, and the listed battery life is 7.75 hours. The housing is ABS plastic with a powder coated finish in black, rated water resistant, measuring 14.5 x 11 x 18.5 cm. An integrated hook allows hanging from tents, branches or awnings, and the flat base suits tabletop use. A light kit is included. Product weight, country of origin and lumen output are not specified in this record.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 consumer guarantees for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Camping Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://camping.net.nz/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/", "canonical_url": "https://camping.net.nz/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern/", "json_url": "https://camping.net.nz/api/products/retro-rechargeable-camping-lantern.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-11" }