Snow Peak's Mini Hozuki Lantern, Bark, S-041BR-US, Designed in Japan, Lifetime Product Guarantee, Lightweight, Compact for Camping or Backpacking, Camping Light, One Size

Taken it camping twice and couldn't see ever leaving it at home

Cannot get the product to work, the light will not work. Also, the directions are not in English. Not worth the price

I bought these when they first came out: a green and yellow one, so I’ve had mine for years. I’m terms of actually usage though that’s not that much because I only used them for camping. Unlike most of the gear I’ve owned, they have aged poorly.When I bought them, they were cute and I thought would be nice for inside the tent, or for dark areas at the campsite. The candle flicker feature was neat. I think the concept is fantastic. The execution is terrible.I’m just writing this after throwing them both away. I’m just sick of dealing with them. I’m not even going to try and warranty them. I’ve got some other Snow Peak stuff and to be honest, its not very good either. My little isobutane/propane lantern from them would catch fire whenever I tried to use it so that got tossed too. I’ve never had any other lantern consistently do that.The controls on these lanterns are finicky, so it’s hard to turn them on and off. The click isn’t positive and changing modes is flaky. They have always drained batteries within a night of minimal use. I’m sick of batteries anyway. We’re always in possession of some kind of rechargeable device so I have chargers and power bricks. I don’t want to carry around little ziplock bags with AAA batteries like it’s the 90s.Sometimes they just don’t start so it seems like every trip Ive got to spend the requisite time to futz with them to get them to work again while packing. The domes collect dust that gets engrained in the gooey rubber and they get gross. Washing them doesn’t help. It’s like when rubber coatings get that sticky film that you can’t seem to get off. They’re nasty.Speaking of the domes, they are just loose enough so that they fall off all the time. I have to spend time relocating the domes in bags, around camp, in the storage cabinet, in the tent. The actual housing doesn’t click firmly together either so sometimes they just come apart and they are finicky to get back together. Finally the little magnetic loop at the top is too weak and too short so they constantly fall off anything bigger than guy line unless there’s wind, and then they fall off those too.They’re just overpriced miserable little things. They are the kind of complicated little annoyance that you go camping or backpacking to get away from in the first place.