POVAST Rechargeable Solar Flashlight for Survival Kit Emergency has Ultra Bright 500 Lumen LED Spotlight and 24 LED Lantern with Solar and AC Rechargeable Lithium Battery for Emergency

I bought this flashlight lantern; totally contained with built in charger, and solar back up. I have it in a South facing window of my house, getting charged by the sun. Tonight I'll find out what a fine job of charging my light, the little solar array did for me. My light came fully charged on Tuesday; and I ordered it on Sunday, I couldn't ask for anything more.I went on line looking for a tactical flashlight, these days everyone's got to have their own tactical flashlight it seems. As I shopped for tactical flashlights on Amazon, I found this reminder of the past, a lantern flashlight combination. I've had many flashlights like this one in the past. Most of the time I would find them is trash cans, at the Good Will, other thrift stores. Once I found a really cool one used by a miner, it was a real miner's lantern flashlight. The unit was made to attach to a miner's helmet. Now with the emergence of LED fluorescent light bulbs, it's nice to see they come in little lantern flashlights, such as this one sold by Knight Inventions.I haven't tried the a/c charger yet, and today I'll find out how well the solar array charged my light.This unit is light as a feather, and very well made of quality materials. I really like the handle on the side of the light, it speaks of the quality which goes into making this light. The selector switch gives the user three choises of high, low, and strobe. It's nice to have a low to make the battery last. I've had this unit a week, and I still haven't totally drained the battery since it came out of the package. This is a very practical light; I keep it on the bed stand at night, it travels with me in the car. I bring the light in with me, when I get home. I feel my flashlight solar lantern by Knight Inventions will be a good companion. In a given dark situation, this light could probably save my life. Keep me from falling off a sidewalk at night in the city, or from walking off a cliff in the mountains. If I should be in a big building at work, and the power should turn off. I would want my flashlight lantern with me, to guide me to safety. When my day time projects run on into the night, this light will give me the light I need. To quickly finish up my work, and go inside safely. I highly recommend The Flashlight Latern by Knight inventions. A dependable source of light when you need it, without having to worry about flashlight batteries, or light bulbs. This unit can easily save your life

Tested charging with both solar and AC methods and all seems to function as needed. I am worried that the solar cell was rotating as I removed the protective plastic film, would not want this to affect the internal wiring. The area light modes are very bright, the flashlight beam is focused in the middle more than I expected for a lantern but will still meet my needs. Design seems okay but wish the workmanship was a little more robust, has a very lightweight feel to it.Update January 2016- I've been dog sitting for a few weeks and this light has been used on a daily basis for nighttime walks. The flashlight is very bright and the focused beam that I commented on previously actually worked well for looking under bushes for other animals. One concern I wanted to mention is that the output of the flashlight drops quite a bit after a half hour or so. Not sure how long it operates before another drop in output. Unfortunately the initial drop takes the flashlight from "impressive" to "average". I have two of these flashlights and the photo shows the output of a fully charged unit compared to one that has about an hour of run time. I have a number of tactical flashlights that maintain the rated output far longer before a drop and perhaps this one is not modulated to the same degree.Update #2 Jan 2016- I compared my two units side by side for a three hour test. The suspect unit had low output while the other one ran strong the entire time. Extremely fast shipment of a replacement unit from the seller, so service after the sale has been exceptional.

It has a good light intensity but the intensity of the light goes down very fast. It seems that it never charges enough.

I was very disappointed... it was made of cheap cheap plastic and it felt like it should cost around $5. I ordered 2 for gift exchanges and sent them both back because they felt so cheap. The light was actually ok - but the casing was terrible.I never write reviews... but I feel compelled on this one because the "list price" was $62.95, the "price" was $42.95, and the "sale" was $18.95 (which is what I paid for them) - and there were a ton of good reviews. I fell for the $62 and $42 prices, thinking it was a high dollar light at a great discount for $18.95... but it's just so cheaply made. I would have been very embarrassed to have given them at the gift exchanges

The light is decent. I prefer the work light/lantern to the actual flashlight. I also do not care about moving the handle to use the on/off switch. What gets me is the charge cord.There is solar charge built into this and that suggests using the light in the event of an emergency...usually that means blackout. A/C charge is fine but why not use a USB or Droid plug for the other end ??? A M/F is limiting so in order to charge it you need an outlet. In a blackout an outlet is useless. If the contact end is USB or droid ( Micro ) then we can use an external pack or DC plug like in a car. I also agree with a few of the other reviews, the housing is cheap and should have been expandable. That way the work light / Lantern is protected. The $19.95 price is nice for a sale but this is really a light with a price, it should have been created with a little more thought.