20x LED "Snowflake" Color-Changing Lights, retail $12.99
Manufactured by (Unknown) for Right Aid
Last updated 01-10-22
This is a set of 20 color-changing (color-shifting actually) "snowflake-shaped" LED Christmas lights. Each "snowflake" has a BW (blue/white) (or seperate white and blue LEDs) inside; these all do a color fade routine in unison (together) when the switch is turned on -- or you can have them steady-on in white or blue if the color-shifting business piddles you off.
The light set uses three AA cells; decorate with them as you would ordinary corded Christmas light sets.
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Decorate with these lights the same way you would decorate with other Christmas lights. Hang them on the front of the fireplace mantel, hang them in a window, put them in your Christmas tree, etc., or just hang the suckers off your dorm room ceiling for that special holiday feeling all year 'round.
Slide the slide switch on the control box to the "STEADY A" position to turn the light set on in white mode, slide the switch to the "STEADY B" position to turn them on in blue mode, and slide the switch to the "COLOR-CHANGING" position to have the lights gently fade from white to blue to white to blue (process repeats indefinitely).
To neutralise them, just slide the switch to the "OFF" position.
The light set has a 6-hours on / 18-hours off automatic timer; simply meaning that you can just "set it and forget it" to borrow a phrase from one of Ron Popiel's infomercials that ran near the turn of the century.
To change the batteries when necessary, use a small phillips screwdriver to unscrew and remove the screw just above the latch on the battery door. Lift the door away where you removed that screw, gently place it on the floor, and kick it under the Christmas tree that you're always forgetting to water so that the hungry, hungry carpet beetle grubs (larvae) will think it's something yummy for their insect tummies, find out otherwise, and then proceed to uranate on it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.
Remove the three used AA cells from the battery compartment if necessary, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Install three new AA cells in the battery compartment, orienting them so that the flat-end (-) negative of each cell faces the spring for it in each chamber.
Place the battery door back on, bottom end first, and press down on it until it is flush with the rest of the case. Screw the screw back in, and there, you're finished.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door under the dead, dead Christmas tree now?
Current usage measures 33.60mA (white LEDs), and 42.70mA (blue LEDs).
This light set is meant to be used as a decorative light set in a dry area, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown them in the toilet, bash them against a steel rod or against the corner of a concrete stair, let my housemate's kitty cat go to the bathroom on them, run over them with a 400lb Quickie Pulse 6 electric wheelchair, or perform other indecencies on them that a regular flashlight might have to go through. So this section of the web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight and nothing but a flashlight.
In my opinion, they're rather pretty to look at.
Photograph of the light set lighted up (blue).
Photograph of the light set lighted up (white).
Spectrographic analysis of the phosphor white LEDs in this light set.
Spectrographic analysis of the phosphor white LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 460nm to pinpoint the native peak emission wavelength, which is 451.180nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the phosphor white LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 515nm and 535nm to pinpoint the phosphor peak emission wavelength, which is 526.160nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 20snoww.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this light set.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 460nm to pinpoint the peak emission wavelength, which is 451.180nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 20snowb.txt
Video allowing you to see the 20x LED "Snowflake" Color-Changing Lights in this year's chosen installation location.
The second half (the outdoors portion) of the video loops three times in order to accommodate the length of the music.
That music that you hear is the song, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
This product is not audio- (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
In this video, you can see how these lights operate when its batteries have just about gone down the tube.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at a Right Aid store in Fresno CA. USA on 12-02-20.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Rather pretty to look at
Seems at least reasonably durable
CONS:
"Snowflake" covers may be a wee bit fragile
Can become tangled as easily as mains-powered incandescent light sets
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Color-shifting LED Christmas light set
LAMP TYPE: BW (blue/white) bicolor LED (I believe)
No. OF LAMPS: 20
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/mode change/off on controller
BEZEL: LEDs surrounded by transparent prismatic "snowflake"-shaped coverings
BATTERY: 3x AA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 33.60mA (white), 42.70mA (blue)
WATER- AND EGGNOG-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-restance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡PAPÁ NOEL TOMANDO UNA FUGA POR LA CHIMENEA, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: Lighted length 7.90 feet (2.40M)
WEIGHT: 150g (5.29oz) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Cambodia
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
20x LED "Snowflake" Color-Changing Lights *
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