Blukar Headlamps, Camping Lanterns and Flashlights

What Blukar makes for hunters and campers

Blukar's About page calls it a brand dedicated to outdoor activity lighting. Its own store sells LED flashlights, head torches (the British word for headlamps), camping lanterns and a few car phone holders. This site covers three of those types:

• Headlamps: USB rechargeable, with spot and flood beams and a red mode
• Lanterns: one foldable rechargeable camp lantern with 116 LEDs
• Flashlights: a rechargeable zoom flashlight and mini keychain lights

The phone holders aren't listed on this site. Hunters still find a use for one in the truck, mostly so the map stops sliding into the cup holder.

The grid above shows what's on Amazon right now, filtered by type. Listings change week to week, so I'll write about what separates the lines, not how many are up today.

Blukar headlamps: what separates the lines

All the Blukar headlamps here charge from a built-in battery. What changes from one to the next is output, the beam setup and how many modes you get.

The 2000L headlamps

Two listings carry the 2000L name. Per their Amazon listings, both give a top output of 2,000 lumens, spot and flood beams, and red light.

Blukar's own store page for its 2000L two-pack fills in the rest. The maker says it uses two light sources, a COB panel and an XPG LED, for its spot and flood combination. It lists a built-in 1,200 mAh battery that charges over USB-C, and eight modes: five regular ones (three white settings, red, and red strobe) plus three motion-sensor modes. A long press dims the light steplessly, and the lamp head tilts 45 degrees. The maker gives the weight as 2.86 ounces and says the headband comes off for washing.

The sensor modes let you switch the lamp on or off with a wave of the hand. Handy when you're gutting fish or wiring a trailer plug. Less handy when you're the guy waving at Walt across the fire and the lamp thinks you meant it. (It's always the wave. The lamp's fine.)

The LED Rechargeable Headlamp

This listing gives a runtime of 20 hours, with red light and spot and flood beams. Its listing doesn't give a lumen figure, so that cell in the grid shows a dash. If brightness decides it for you, compare it against a lamp where the field is filled.

The 2026 Gen 2

The Gen 2 is Blukar's newest name in the grid. Its listing title names a 2-pack, 10 modes, stepless dimming, spot and flood beams, a motion sensor and a 1400mAh battery, with no lumen or runtime figure in our data. Blukar's store lists a 10-mode sibling with a memory function that keeps the last mode you used, stepless dimming from 30 to 100 percent, a power indicator and a plug over the charging port. Check the Gen 2's own listing for which of those it shares before you count on them.

The Blukar camping lantern

The 116 LED Camping Lantern is the one Blukar lantern here. Its listing marks it rechargeable and collapsible. Blukar's store page describes it in more detail:

• 116 LEDs with a 360-degree spread and warm white light
• Four side panels that fold out 90 degrees to spread the light wider
• Seven modes, including high and low side light, bottom light and red SOS
• Built-in 4,800 mAh battery, up to 10 hours per charge, per the maker
• USB-C charging and a four-light power gauge
• A hook plus a climbing-style clip for a tent loop or a branch

Folded, it's a compact lantern with more focused light. Opened, the maker says it works like a small chandelier. That's a big word for a tent light, but it fits: panels out, hung from the ceiling loop, it lights the whole floor. (Renee saw it opened and asked if it gets satellite TV. It does not.)

Blukar flashlights

Like everything else Blukar sells here, the flashlights charge from a built-in battery.

The Rechargeable Zoom Flashlight

This is the full-size one. Its listing gives an aluminum body, a built-in pack, USB-C charging, a zoom head and a strobe mode, plus a runtime figure. It doesn't give a lumen figure, so that cell in the grid shows a dash. A zoom head slides to turn a wide circle of light into a tight spot, which is the flashlight version of the spot and flood combination on the headlamps.

Mini Keychain Flashlights

Several listings carry the Mini Keychain Flashlight name. Each is listed as a rechargeable keychain light, and our data stops there: no lumens, runtime or cell type. Treat them as versions to compare on the listing itself. A keychain light earns its spot by being there when the truck's dome light is out, not by being bright.

Flashlights across brands are on the handheld spotlight page, and the best rechargeable flashlight list sorts them by its own rule.

How to choose within the Blukar lineup

Start with how bright you really need

Lumens measure the total light a lamp puts out. Streamlight's summary of ANSI/PLATO FL 1, the flashlight industry's voluntary test standard, notes that each maker runs its own tests. Use lumen figures to compare, not to promise.

For camp chores and the walk in, you'll live on the low settings. The top setting is for scanning a field edge or a long driveway. That's where a 2000L lamp earns its number, and it's also where the battery drains fastest. The general picture is on the headlamps page.

Read runtime and beam distance the same way

When a listing gives runtime or beam distance, it helps to know what the numbers usually mean. Under FL 1, per Streamlight's summary, runtime is counted from 30 seconds after switch-on until output drops to 10 percent of that starting level. Beam distance is how far out the light falls to 0.25 lux, a very dim level.

So a 20-hour runtime doesn't mean 20 hours at full blast. It means the lamp keeps making some light for that long on the setting tested. Compare runtimes between lamps that list them, and expect the top setting to run much shorter. When a cell in the grid shows a dash, the listing didn't give that number, and no amount of squinting at the photos will fill it in.

Then spot, flood, or both

A spot beam reaches far and narrow. A flood beam spreads wide and close. Blukar's lamps here mostly do both, which covers the trail and the tailgate with one lamp. If you only ever need close light, a flood-only lamp is simpler to run.

Then red light and how you get to it

My one opinion on this page: for a hunter, red light matters more than top output. The National Park Service explains that your eyes take roughly 20 to 40 minutes to adapt to the dark, and a few seconds of bright light undo it. Dim red light doesn't. On the walk to the stand, that's your night vision when you switch the lamp off. Every Blukar headlamp in the grid lists a red mode. The red light headlamp page compares more.

Then sensor modes, tilt and fit

Motion sensing is a convenience, not a requirement. A 45-degree tilt, which Blukar lists on its store pages, lets you aim at the trail without bending your neck. A washable band is a small thing that matters by the third day of a hunt. More rechargeable options are on the rechargeable headlamp page, and there's a ranked list on best headlamp.

Who should skip the Blukar lineup

Every Blukar on this site is rechargeable. If your camp has no power, no generator and no solar panel, and you're out more than a couple of nights, a lamp that takes AAA cells is simpler to keep running. Spares weigh almost nothing and swap in seconds. Those lamps are on the headlamps page, and battery lanterns are on the battery-operated lantern page.

If you want one plain button and no modes to learn, an eight-mode lamp with sensor settings is more lamp than you need. And if your plan depends on a listed runtime for a long morning sit, pick a lamp where the grid shows that number.

Set it up before opening morning

A few minutes at the kitchen table saves fumbling at the truck:

• Charge it full the week before, indoors
• Learn the modes in a dark room, red mode first
• Fit the band over the hat you'll actually wear
• Aim the tilt so the beam lands a few steps ahead

Blukar's store pages mention a memory function on some models, which brings back the last mode you used. Leave it on red before you put it away. Then the first click at the truck is the quiet one.

How to choose a rechargeable camp lantern

The Blukar lantern is a built-in battery lantern, so the same charging rules apply as for the headlamps. What else to look at:

• Shape: foldable panels spread light wider; a solid cylinder is simpler
• Modes: a red or low mode keeps the tent from glowing like a jack-o'-lantern
• Hanging: a hook and clip beat balancing it on a cooler lid
• Battery gauge: four lights tell you more than "on" and "off"

Other shapes and power types are on the rechargeable lantern page.

Charging and battery care

Every Blukar headlamp, lantern and flashlight here charges from a built-in battery, so charging habits are the care routine. The US Fire Administration's lithium-ion guidance:

• Charge between 32°F and 105°F: not in a freezing truck, not on a hot dashboard
• Store at room temperature when you can, away from anything that burns
• Stop using it if it smells, swells, leaks, gets very hot or changes color
• Never trash it: take it to a battery recycler

Deer camp in November is usually below 32°F at night. Charge in the cabin, not on the truck seat. Then pack it warm.

When a built-in battery is done, it usually can't come out. The EPA's advice for those is to take the whole device to an electronics recycler, a retailer with a takeback program, or a household hazardous waste program. For loose lithium cells, it says to tape the terminals with electrical tape or bag them separately.

One more safety line for the lantern: an LED lantern is the right light inside a tent. The CPSC says never to use fuel-burning portable heaters or lanterns while sleeping in tents, campers or vehicles.

Blukar facts

Blukar's own site describes the brand as dedicated to outdoor activity lighting and sells flashlights, head torches, camping lanterns and car phone holders.

Write "charge Thursday" on the band's tag with a marker. Thursday you will ignore it. Friday you'll be glad it's there.