Traditionalists might cringe at the title of this post, but there are many advantages to the battery powered camping lantern. Although traditionally a fuel lamp is the way to go, more and more enthusiastic campers are choosing the battery powered lamp. Why?
Safe
This may be the single most important factor to consider when choosing your type of camping lamp. Kids are often camping with the family, and a battery powered lamp is definitely one of the more safer options. The other two types are both fueled camping lanterns and thus always have an open flame. An open flame and children are always a bad combination. Not too mention accidents can happen, whether you have kids or not. It is easy to knock it over and set everything alight. This is a very important consideration to make, and if there are kids involved, then you need to be pretty careful about your choice. A battery powered camping lantern has absolutely no flame, and other than a little bit of heat it gives off, is totally safe to have around your kids.
Cheap
Battery powered lanterns are the cheapest to buy and maintain. Obviously batteries are easily replaced, however, you can also get a camping lantern with rechargeable batteries, and this is a great option because then you never need to buy new batteries, and it keeps them even cheaper. This is an important point for many people especially in the state of the economy at the moment.
Quiet
There is nothing worse than trying to sleep and you hear the tick tock of your clock and it keeps you up all night. It is the same with a camping lamp. Gas fueled camping lanterns are very loud to run, and if you have them on when some people are sleeping, not only can it be dangerous with the flame, it can simply keep people up. A battery powered one is obviously basically silent, and won’t disturb anyone.
Negatives
There are however as always negatives. A battery lamps light is very much dependent on the power left in the battery. If your battery life is low then you won’t get much light. This can be a big problem, especially if you didn’t bring replacement batteries. There is no doubt that a gas fueled camping lantern is much brighter and gives off better light.