# Flashlight Recommendations
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashlight-recommendations/1013208
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 21, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashlight-recommendations/1013208 "2025-01-21T12:04:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 5
### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashlight-recommendations/1013208/81 "2025-01-25T19:13:52Z")
I have no issues with my Luci solar lantern, but admittedly I don’t have it on for hours — I tend to go to sleep early when camping.
Specs say 12 hours on low, but recharge time not listed.
Brian
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashlight-recommendations/1013208/82 "2025-01-25T19:39:21Z")
My use case is post-hurricane with a week or more without electricity. And illuminating enough of an apartment to be a tolerable experience for two people from sunset to a bedtime chosen so it’ll be daybreak at wakeup.
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### Author:  [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2025, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashlight-recommendations/1013208/83 "2025-01-27T11:30:30Z")
your Best solución for This scenario:
get a smallish but high efficiency solar panel that has outputs to usb-a and can deliver 2A worth of 5V energy.
Keeps a flashlight happy, charges your Phone and is now the New - de-facto-standard-for-electronic-knick-knacks. Best solución overall and it seems usb-a Will be a round for a long time … and even if we migrate towards usb-c (as it seems), you are just one tiny adaptor or cable away.
… what might take you 36 hours on a crappy flashlight with postage-stamp sized solar panel (frying its own battery in the sun), converts into a 2hr job 😉
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