My second favorite lantern is the gas powered one, and coming in third place is the propane powered lantern. See how they compare in each test below, and see if you come to the same conclusion that I did. The Northstar doesn’t have a lot of fancy features.
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He needed a new globe for one of his gas powered lanterns. The L220 lantern above came with a Coleman reflector that appeared in the 1920 Coleman Parts Catalog 27 . The reflector was designed for the earlier LQ lantern but also fits in L220 and L228 models. The spring steel reflector rests against three of the uprights and the shiny inner surface reflects light from the mantles. The ventilator and mica globe were removed for this image. Model E20, the Quick-Lite Jumbo Gas Lantern, with a built-on pump , and the Quick-Lite Poultry House Lantern, without a pump ,both featured a 1 gallon fuel tank.
This is because propane lanterns will acheive maximum brightness and the white gas burns cleaner without the mess of liquid. The Northstar is a single-mantle, bright, easy-to-use propane lantern with a glass dome inside a protective metal guard. It has a long metal handle that doesn’t get hot to the touch when it is lit.
But for Damian coleman lantern, of Superior WI, one specific lantern—the Coleman gas lantern—is the pinnacle of cool. In fact, Wilmot’s appreciation and respect for the Coleman lantern has led to somewhat of an addiction for collecting vintage models. Wilmot collects lanterns the way other people might collect art.
If you run these coleman battery lanterns on low, it costs much less per hour to operate. See the chart below for all the figures side by side. For this test, I used a Canon D6 DSLR camera mounted on a tripod. I used manual settings to keep the exposure the same for all three lanterns. Here they are starting from dimmest to brightest. The test was conducted in my shop which is a approximately 30ft X 30ft.
During one of our parties, we put the Northstar near Grandma when she was chilly. This lantern does make a bit of a hissing sound when it is lit, and when the fuel is about to run out it makes a rather loud whistling noise. Check for the cleaning lever and rotate it’.