Eveready Captain Fluorescent lantern (1973)

A look at a neat mint-in-box vintage fluorescent lantern, the direct competitor to the Burgess Safari Lite.

I'll be modifying this one to run on a low voltage battery pack like I did the Safari Lite, and will show that in a future video.

[themaritimegirl]

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[cavannus]

Wow the price was crazy!! Today's lanterns cost $40, which is a fraction of what a powerful electric lantern costed back in rhe days (in the 70-80-90s you had propane and naphta if you wanted lumens).
Thanks for the review, I skipped most of the video because, well, 40 min, but I enjoyed how deeply you went to review the box, the design, the electronics...

[Madness]

The plug is typical of devices from that era. And of all my old equipment, only an old lamp (found in the cellar of my old house) has a polarized plug, in that style. Believe that that's the only one I've ever seen (polarized outlets, of course, have been around forever).

[robshorts]

I always love these kind of lanterns. The boxes always have interesting artwork with the suggested uses, I have many of these lanterns now with the original box. I do have a 6w Eveready lantern that does bare a resemblance to the Captain with the front facing lamp and the 'square' design and similar handle, I wonder if that is coincidence or if it was based on the captain? It is however battery only with an electronic inverter. It's one of the nicer inverters though, seems to preheat the tube slightly on starting. I look forward to seeing the conversion, a great idea!

[Wildeagle]

Is there a video for the battery conversion Do you spoke about in this video.

[Wildeagle]

I have one, trying to figure out the battery