Surprisingly good solar flame lantern

Most of these flame emulating solar lights have used a strip of LEDs to give the flame effect, but this one uses a very distinct cluster of LEDs to emulate the shape of a flame.
It's unusual that while they have full control of the 5 LEDs individually, they didn't include any sideways flame movement. The pattern loop is also quite short, suggesting that some extra randomisation could be added.

The solar section is fairly typical with a generous 600mAh AAA NiMH cell and surprisingly high output amorphous silicon panel. The current output when held up to a diffused 20W LED bench light was actually quite surprising at 125mA. I tend to associate amorphous (brown glass) panels with low current, but they've obviously been evolving quietly in the background.

This light came from Poundstretcher in the UK. I'd guess it will appear in various general homeware stores worldwide.

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