Coleman 4D Pack-Away LED Lantern

by Coleman

Product Features

• Bright, long-lasting LED sheds 140 lumens of light on "high" setting
• Pack-Away design creates a built-in carry case and compact storage
• Runs 40 hours on low, 18 hours on high with four D batteries (not included)
• Light automatically shuts off in closed position to conserve batteries
• Durable, weather-resistant housing

Product Description

The Coleman 4D Pack-Away LED Lantern is a strong, compact, reliable light source for camping, fishing, travel, and as a standby for power outages and other emergencies. The bright, long-lasting Cree XR-E LED provides 140 lumens on the "high" setting. Coleman's exclusive Pack-Away design allows the lantern to telescope into a built-in carry case for compact storage; the space-saving handle rests against the base so it doesn't take up any extra room. The Pack-Away Lantern runs for a full 40 hours on low and 18 hours on high, with a set of 4 D-cell batteries (not included). The LED Lantern is weather-resistant, with durable ABS housing, a snug fit clear globe, chrome-plated globe guards, and an overlapping ventilator top for duty in the great outdoors.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.3 x 6.4 x 5.4 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00168OD62
• Item model number: 4345-702
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,984 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)
  • #46 in Sports & Outdoors > Outdoor Recreation > Camping & Hiking > Lights & Lanterns > Lanterns

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fairly bright compared to others I've tried, June 7, 2008

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Bargain Finder (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

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I've bought some other simialrly priced LED lanterns, and this one is fairly bright. DO NOT expect it to light up a campground like a kersone mantle-type lantern. But for ambient room light during emergencies, and compared to others that claim they have a 10-20 LED's, this 'one-LED' type was brighter than all my others (and they did an especially good job of design to reflcet back light that would normally be 'lost'). And the fold-away capaility is a nice feature since it IS full-size like any Coleman camp lantern. I haven't tested how long it will burn with 4D cells, but definitely use it on the half-power setting. Half-power gives almost as much light as full power. Reason: If you know anything about luminosity, you know that you would need about 4 times the energy to double the light output as perceived by the eye. So save your batteries and stay with the one-half power setting.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super., August 12, 2008

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European History Guy (Arcata, CA) - See all my reviews

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Works as advertised. A couple nits to pick:

1. It's almost impossible to see the settings on the switch on top of the lantern if it's dark outside.

2. It collapses a bit too easily. If you barely touch the top, then it collapses. Why no catch to hold it open?

3. It can be left on AND closed, which would drain the batteries (my wife did this to "turn it off").

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Light for the Price, March 2, 2009

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retrodog (Houston/Galveston TX) - See all my reviews

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I can't help to feel that some others on here have gotten confused about this product. While it is seemingly not as rugged as Coleman gas lanterns, it just might prove to be more durable. I have personally had the glass globe on my traditional Coleman lantern broken twice by little more than bumping into it with something hard. The heat produced with the gas powered lanterns is intense and makes that glass globe very easy to break. The plastic lens/globe on this lantern seems very durable and I'm sure it will take a bit more shock than the glass one. Another point on this is the fact that it can retreat down into the case (like a turtle) and suddenly become half the size that it was in the expanded operational configuration.

This light is the small, portable, more compact version of the 8D cell unit. It is designed to be compact enough to fit into places where the bigger ones can't fit. It's designed to be lesser weight than the full sized ones. The weight thing comes with a trade-off. If you want to cut weight, you cut down on strength. I've handled this light quite a bit and even intentionally bumped it pretty hard. It doesn't seem too fragile.

Light emissions are very good. I agree that switch placement on the top seems strange but not that big of a deal. I wasn't really planning on use outside, as it will mostly be an emergency light backup for power outages. As such, it seems to be built very well.

The carry handle makes an excellent structure, when down, to build an aluminum foil reflector on, or you can easily mold one on the side of the globe.

When the top is retracted into the case, the unit is very small and compact. A nice design for storage. But extending it again requires a bit of practice to determine the exact force required to make it stay open and not so much that you'd damage it.

Overall, when considering that this has a high output cree LED that is still relatively expensive (more or less), the price seems very cheap for what you get.