The photo above shows a
Butterfly
828R hanging from a swag hook in the
ceiling of our front room, just behind our
recliners, for easy reading at night.
Another swag hook is in the center of the
kitchen ceiling, and a hook is in the center
of the covered patio for outside use.
"Butterfly" kerosene lanterns are available
from
www.StPaulMercantile.com . St Paul
Mercantile is highly recommended. Their
prices are low and service is high - a great
combination!
I've been playing with the
Butterfly Petromax clone for some time, and also
searched the web for more instructions on the
Petromax...ALL of the instructions and manuals for
the Petromax lantern are available on the web! And
they are far more complete than the instructions
that came with the Butterfly lantern - yet they are
the same thing.
I switched back to the Butterfly
mantle, and it works better than the Coleman
mantle. And you CAN regulate the light output of
the Butterfly by simply raising or lowering the
pressure in the tank! There is a bleed valve to
drop the pressure. Set to a low pressure, the
Butterfly is almost silent and will put out enough
light on the dining room table to easily read with
- no problem at all. And it will maintain that
pressure by itself for hours, and the burn time
should be well over 18 hours.
Pumped up enough to reach the
red line on the pressure gauge, the lantern is
about as noisy as a Coleman, BUT it puts out an
extremely bright light that lights up the entire
patio very easily. As the lamp is hanging high,
with the reflector in place, the light is radiated
down over the entire area, and one could cook or
work with that light easily. Fuel consumption at
this rate is about 8 to 12 hours.
Pumped up only 2 marks, or
halfway to the red line on the gauge, the light is
still very bright, easily enough to work in, read
over a wide area, yet the noise level is about half
that of a Coleman. That is where it is set right
now, burning out on the patio, suspended by a 14
inch wire from a rafter, and it's own foot long
handle. It has maintained that intensity for hours,
and the pressure gauge has not moved, so what you
set it to in the first place is maintained. I have
bled it down to a lower light output, and it stayed
there, and pumped it back up and it stayed there
too.
