Camping lanterns
Same battery capacity, same double life as a phone charger — so which of the two tells you more about the light it makes?
Both lanterns are built on a published 5200 mAh pack and both are sold as much for charging a phone as for lighting a pitch. And both leave the same line blank: no lumen figure appears on either listing. That matters more than usual here, because the NORDMUT publishes up to 200 hours — a runtime with no output attached to it, on a lantern that dims steplessly, which means the figure could belong to any setting on the dial. The YFW answers the other half: it publishes what the thing weighs.
| Compared on | 5200 mAh power bank, 200 h stated, IPX4 | 5200 mAh power bank, magnets and hook, 184 g stated |
|---|---|---|
| Stated output | Not published | Not published |
| Runtime per level | Up to 200 hours — stated, with no level attached | Not published — no hours for any of the four modes |
| Colour temperature | Not published | Not published — white, warm and natural named, no kelvin |
| Power source | Built-in 5200 mAh pack, also stated to work as a power bank | Built-in 5200 mAh pack, 5 V / 2.1 A output — stated |
| Battery chemistry | Not published | Not published |
| Charge port | USB-C — stated | Not published — a USB-C cable is supplied, the input is not named |
| IP rating | IPX4 — stated | Not published — full protection is claimed with no IP code |
| Hanging hardware | Carry handle and hook — stated | Magnets stated to hold on ironwork, plus a hook — stated |
| Weight | Not published | 184 g — stated |
Each tick belongs to its own line and nothing more. The row of ticks is not a score: the two verdicts underneath settle the page, because these two answer different questions on the trail.
The one that publishes the things a wet pitch cares about: IPX4, a named USB-C port, a hook and a handle, and a 200 hour figure. Read that figure with the caveat printed on the page — it has no output beside it, on a lantern with stepless dimming, so it describes some setting the listing never names. No weight is published anywhere.
The one to take if it will live on a van door, a bonnet or a tent pole: magnets stated to hold on ironwork, a hook, and 184 g on the label — the only published weight of the pair. In exchange you get no ingress rating, no hours at any of its four modes, and no statement of which port charges the lantern itself.
You cannot, and this page does not pretend to. Both listings describe their light in words and neither prints a figure, so the output line is blank on both sides. What remains comparable is everything around the light — the battery, the port, the ingress rating, the hardware and the weight.
It is worth exactly what it says and no more: up to 200 hours, from a 5200 mAh pack, at an output the listing never names. The lantern dims steplessly, so the figure cannot be pinned to a step. It is not comparable with the YFW, which publishes no hours at all.
Both state that they do. The NORDMUT is stated to work as a power bank over USB-C; the YFW publishes a 5 V / 2.1 A output. Neither publishes how much of the 5200 mAh reaches a phone.
Rechargeable lantern · 5200 mAh with power-bank output · up to 200 h stated, no level attached · stepless dimming · IPX4 · USB-C · no lumens, no kelvin, no weight
A stepless-dimming lantern and power bank publishing 200 hours with no level attached, on a light whose output is never given in any unit.
Best for: A pitch light for a buyer who wants a power bank in the same object and will judge the brightness on arrival.
≈ 30 €
Rechargeable lantern · 5200 mAh power bank with a 5 V / 2.1 A output · magnets and a hook · 184 g stated · no lumens, no runtime, no kelvin
A magnetic lantern and power bank that publishes its weight and its output current, and neither an output figure nor an hour of runtime.
Best for: Roadside and vehicle work where the magnets earn their place, with camp lighting as the second job.
≈ 23 €
Prices in these summaries were read on the dates each review gives. The live figure sits beside every product.
