Can you disable the light on the push button switch so it does not drain the batteries? If so, how?
1338351
I have 4 of these lanterns and love them. We have two of them in an RV we leave in the mountains all spring, summer and fall so the two lanterns get used a lot. in the past two years we have only changed the AA batteries once in these lanterns. When the lantern is off I believe the batteries aren't losing any charge. There is 3 settings of light....a bright light, a little lower light and then a yellow night light and then off. My grandkids sleep with this yellow light and it doesn't pull much energy. I would highly recommend these lanterns. They aren't large but put out great light.
1338352
How do you move your settings? The push button switch button doesn't want to move to the setting you desire.
1338353
Even if it were actually "lit" by LED, the amount of power used by a single, tiny LED is NOT enough to drain the batteries in any measurable period of time. We're talking at most, a few milliwatts (thousandths of a watt).
1338949
use the button switch, its the third push,not the pressure switch attachment it only turn light on and off
1543536
I don't believe that you can. I always remove my batteries when not in use. It helps you locate it in the dark and uses very little power.
1582851
You can if you want to. There is an 'on/off' toggle switch at the bottom. Even if you don't it does not drain the battery too much.
750474
By design, the slow pulse LED indicator light will flash slowly whenever batteries are installed in it and cannot be disabled. We contemplated an option to turn this feature off, but landed on keeping it on due to the fact that it's meant for emergencies when the light needs to be found quickly and some people might turn it off thinking that it's a substantial drain on the power. The power drain for this feature, however, is incredibly small and hardly affects the storage life of the lantern with the batteries in place. Since a few customers have requested the addition of controlling this feature, the ability to control the LED indicator is on our list of potential features for next generation models. Thanks and keep the questions coming! :) The Supernova Team at Intervine
370024
Hi T - As of right now there is no way to disable the blinking emergency LED indicator, which was a design decision due to it's incredibly low power drain and to make sure people could always find it should the power go off. We are, however, working with our engineers on a way to reprogram it so that it can turn off (most likely we will make it so that holding down the power button for more than 2 seconds will disable the flashing LED indicator, but that's still under review). However, it's important to note that the batteries themselves would drain completely via normal cell degradation far before the flashing LED indicator would have any impact on the battery life. I have contacted our engineers to spec out the math on it to show just how little the drain is, and will distribute that once it's ready (they are quite swamped right now with designing the new features and future products :) ). Also, here was one answer that demonstrates the low draw until we have the exact specs ready: Posted on January 16: "The draw is so low that the batteries themselves would have lost their power via normal degradation well before any significant drain due to the flashing LED could be noticed. I do not have the exact specs in front of me, but I believe that the LED draws around .001 amps, which would be able last for a year even if it were constantly on with the D cell batteries. Since it is flashing (and not constant), that means that the draw is actually much, much less and means that it would in theory last for ten's of years. As you can imagine, we fully admit that we haven't tested that yet. :)" We will email you once we have the exact specs outlined. Thanks!
2071386
There is no need to turn it off. I've had this for two years and batteries are still working. It goes into a low draw sleep mode. Don't worry about it.
208712
it shouldn't drain the battery, only draw a few milliamps to keep the light lit. if you have a weak or old battery you may want to unplug it to be safe. I leave mine plugged in all the time & have had no issues.
1646113
That's how I have mine but there is only the 1 switch, you have to open it up and cut the wire leading to the large lamp or it will drain the battery too fast. Works almost all night long before the battery runs out. I use them strictly for accent lighting so the low power led's are all I wanted.
1917093
Manufacturer indicated the design was changed so batteries no longer run down when unit looks like it is off. This change happened May 2015. Also, the unit has two modes. If you turn it on and just tap the power button it goes through the cycle of different light patterns. You could leave it in this mode and batteries most likely will run down. If you hold power button down until lights go out, and tapping the button does not change light patterns, then the unit is really off. This is what I learned from manufacturer and from testing the unit.
1299542
If you put it on a switch then you are controlling the normal operation. So, if you want it off while at night then flip the switch. However, if you switch it on during the daylight you will have no light on.
991247
There is no on/off switch. Batteries installed should make the light blink. Yours must be defective...or your batteries are bad.
26537
I've always used my units in the Push Button mode...simply due to battery lifespan. I'm coming up on a year using the same batteries.
1184064
Yes, the push button is for power ON/OFF.The pull string change the brightness level and also can turn off the light.And the string can works thousands of times.
94389
Is there an option to completely turn off or reduce the timing for the glowing buttons? Does that make a difference in battery life?
1044947
Yes, you can turn it off. There are three different settings, keep pushing the button to make it brighter and to turn it off.
928248
Yes. Simply don't select any of the timed options (there are pushbuttons on the right side for 15, 30, and 60 minutes). If you don't push any of those it won't turn off by itself.