Editorial Product Review:Item Description:The Coleman® 4D Dual Action flashlight offers you a weatherproof design with a WideBeam path light plus a fluorescent U-tube area light. It boasts an ergonomic soft rubber grip handle and a flat surface base that allows it to stand upright for use as an area light.
Item Description:The Coleman 5308-700 Widebeam 4D Dual-action Flashlight provides a bright, portable light for any occasion. This dual-action flashlight has a regular path light that gives you a center-spot of light with a softer perimeter of light, plus a seven-watt U-tube fluorescent area light to brighten a work area. The Coleman Widebeam also has a flat surface base which allows the light to stand up-right when using the area lighting function. The regular flashlight beam is 50-percent broader than traditional flashlights, and the use of a Xenon blue-tipped bulb provides a whiter light. Additionally, this Coleman flashlight is designed with a 140-degree beam of light to more closely match the human peripheral field of vision.
Features include a soft rubber handle, durable shock absorbing head, and push-button on/off switch. The Coleman Widebeam Dual-action flashlight requires four D batteries (not included).
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Buyer Reviews
Average Buyer Rating:
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Disappointed
We have a dual action Coleman flashlight that is over 10 years old and is still going great. A few plastic pieces are missing, so we decided to get a newer version. We ordered this item. It's very attractive. But when we loaded it up with batteries, only the lantern was working, so we thought that the bulb for the flashlight was bad. No problem we can change that. Before we got to do that however, the flashlight was sitting on a table in "off" mode, and all of a sudden the lantern turned on by itself. The control switch could not turn it off. We had to remove the batteries. I eventually tested the bulb in our other older reliable Coleman and nothing is wrong with it. So it means that the flashlight part is not working. It has a label on it which says "China", so maybe that is where it was made. Beware!!
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I'd buy this again ... and just did.
I just bought this product to replace the previous one and also added the Coleman Personal Size Lantern to my order. Here's my review of the lantern which recommends the Coleman Widebeam flashlight.
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I purchased the "Coleman 4D Dual Action Widebeam Flashlight" for $20 at Amazon to replace the same product which stopped working. While I was at it I bought one of these lanterns. I wanted to have a second and decided to try this for variety, instead of two of the former.
Coleman products have served me well and I like both of these products. However, I was puzzled to see that the light was brighter from the large flashlight than the lantern.
Both products have u-tube fluorescent lighting and both require 4 D batteries, but they clearly (to me) are different in their brightness. Since both products cost $20 and the flashlight also offers both a halogen bulb AND the u-tube, I would recommend buying that instead.
Had I never owned the flashlight version I would have rated this 5 stars which is how I would rate the flashlight.
Something to think about if you want a product to get you around your house when the power fails. Coincidentally, 3 days after these Colemans arrived we lost power for 45 minutes and then a week later for 1 1/2 hours (Philadelphia, PA). These are indispensable to me. I don't do camping but if I did I would still prefer the flashlight for its brighter tube.
Hope this helps you with your decision ... Sam
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Great Flashlight
This is my second Coleman Flashlight and they are great. It is bright and powerful. The batteries last forever as well as the bulbs. The price is a lot cheaper here at amazon then the coleman website.
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Great flashlight - once you get the batteries in.
This IS the greatest flashlight in the world. Bright W-I-D-E beam in front and the nifty opton of illuminating whatever with the underneath (or side depending on direction of the flashlight) with a bright flouresant light! Sure, its heavy (4 D batteries/not included). Sure its big (so you can find it easily/won't lose it). SO great the wide flat bottom gives the option of setting it on a flat surface. Real quality. Will last forever.
ONE PROBLEM - very hard to get the batteries in. You'd figure it out after 20 minutes (or more) of swearing at the flashlight, but here you go.
Take a coin and with the edge of it in the slot of the screw, REMOVE the little screw on the underside. Remove it, not just 1/4 turn like the directions say - that won't work. PUT THE SCREW SOMEPLACE WHERE YOU WON'T LOSE IT.
Then, jimmy the light off the front. Inside there is a panel. You need to "fiddle" with the latch inside/not obvious that it is a latch on the side of this "panel" inside until the thing pops open. Push or pull the little plastic part - the only part that will move at all. There, I think you've got it (sorry, lame description)...I'm doing the best I can. You will figure it out.
Put batteries in.
Replace front light/cover and go find that screw. Put that back in.
Be happy.
I am.