BEAM PUMP - The Backpacking Pump Lantern

Only 2.7 oz / 78 g. Carry One. Do Both. Inflate Your Pad. Light Your Tent.

Category: Outdoors & Sports

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One of the cleanest two-for-one gear swaps we've seen, at a price that makes it easy to say yes. Experienced team, finished tooling, and thoughtful packaging round it out.

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Matt @ BackerClub
Matt @ BackerClub
6 days ago

OUTZAC has three Kickstarter projects behind them, so this is familiar territory. They own their factory and run a vertically integrated supply chain, which means fewer hands between design and delivery. Tooling is finished and they're already into trial production, so this isn't a concept looking for a factory.

Two pieces of gear collapse into one 78 gram tool, cutting about 38 percent off what you'd otherwise carry. It fills a sleeping pad in roughly 40 seconds at 300 L/min, then flips to a 300 lumen tent light with four modes and up to 50 hours of run time. Six nozzles cover Therm-a-Rest, Sea to Summit, Exped, Big Agnes, Klymit, and Nemo, and vacuum mode squeezes soft gear down by up to 85 percent.

Packaging is FSC-certified paper with a paper inner tray instead of plastic, and no laminated coating on the box so it actually recycles. The whole premise is replacing two devices with one, which is waste reduction baked into the product rather than bolted on. Their risks write-up walks through yield, tolerance, and fulfillment specifics instead of hand-waving.

Single units start around $31 to $34 depending on tier, roughly 42 to 49 percent off retail. Two-packs run about $63, the Camping Pack around $80, the Vacuum Pack around $110, and the Team Pack of five lands near $140. VAT and tariffs are included and every tier carries a Kickstarter-exclusive two-year warranty, which removes the usual checkout surprises.

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