This Coleman lantern is a life saver in a black out or if you are camping. The lights are super bright you can remove a side panel to use to move around with. It had USB charge port for charging your phone. My only complaint is it takes D batteries to work. I wish it had a charging port for the lantern itself as D batteries are expensive and you have to hunt to find them.

Useless for any emergency. It takes 2 hours to charge the side lights with NON-RECHARGEABLE batteries & you can't leave the D batteries in becdause they keep charging the side lights & go dead.C'mon Coleman, you can do better.

Terrible application

Terrible, especially for the price. If you leave the batteries in they’ll drain from the panels that charge off the D batteries. If you take the batteries out between use, the panels will drain and need to be charged when you put the batteries in. The panels will have to charge up which drains the batteries which puts you at a disadvantage right when you get to the camp site. I have to replace 8x D cell batteries every few months I go camping which is crazy because of the cost of these batteries. If you let it sit for even longer, everything is dead and at this point, nothing will come back on with new batteries. At this point it just collect dust on my shelf.

Disappointing. Not all panels light up when mounted in the base unit. All batteries (8 D-cells and 12 AAA's) drain RAPIDLY when the lantern is not in use. Fully-charged batteries drain to nothing within 2-3 weeks of not being used while in this lantern. I would like to purchase a simpler lantern that hopefully will not drain its batteries when not in use, but reluctant to waste money if unsure which lantern would allow batteries to keep their charge.

Very disappointed!

My husband purchased this to have "on demand" when the lights go out. As soon as he brought it home, he loaded it with D-cell batteries and it looked great! The 1st time the power went out, the lamp didn't come on...batteries were dead. Not even the detachable lights worked even though they had been charging all that time from the d-cell batteries. Very disappointing! He spent almost $100 for something that is not useful. I wish there was an upgrade for making it rechargeable.

Terrible for emergencies, ok for camping.

We bought this somewhat pricey lantern after a series of blackouts. The cost of the lantern and the initial battery investment had me thinking that I'd have a great emergency tool at my disposal.Unfortunately, as other reviews have mentioned, it only takes D cell batteries, which aren't rechargeable. This wouldn't be an issue except for the fact that the 4 mini lights are constantly draining the batteries to recharge.This means that you need to keep the batteries out of the lantern until it's needed, because if you leave it for a few weeks or months and run into an emergency, all the batteries will be dead.One of the four lights on ours also had never worked when separated from the base, even with new, fully charged, rechargeable AAA batteries in it. Disappointing in and of itself, but you also cannot purchase replacement mini lights, which is just stupid.When the lantern is fully functional, it does a great job. Lights are bright and the stands on the beach of the mini lights are very handy. I did a bunch of work in my dark attic, and this lantern was great up there.But again, this lantern is for very specific short term purposes, and cannot be relied on in an emergency. Less

defective

The lantern slowly drains the D batteries and is useless if stored with batteries.

Just never works

I bought from QVC a few years back. Our electric goes out frequently. I put in all new batteries. I need maybe every 6 months. And EVERYTIME batteries are all dead. I replace, all works great, then next time I need it, all dead again. They should not be all dead from 1 use every 6 months. I am fed up, now am taking to the landfill. What an awful product.

Handle loose

since i brought this, the handle keeps coming loose, so you cannot carry it with it at all,this is from the word go, i am trying to get intouch with Coleman to see what they can do about it, and as someone says u just touch it and one of the lights falls off.

Unimpressive Recharging Routine

I was drawn to this lantern with advertising suggesting a USB connection... which I interpreted as "lantern recharging via USB connection". Wrong! USB connection is to attach a cell phone. In order to recharge the lantern, you must physically remove the rechargeable batteries (supplied) within each of the four detachable light panels and recharge them in your own separately purchased battery recharging system. Very archaic and user non-friendly. 8 alkaline batteries (not supplied) need to be inserted into the base of the lantern, but whose purpose I have not yet determined.