Halloween Candle, retail $1.99 (www.rightaid.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 11-01-20
This is an electric (incandescent bulb) "taper candle" -- very similar to the real McCoy but there is no messy dripping wax, no flame, no smoke, no dirty soot, and no odour. They are battery-powered & can be turned on and off at will; you do not need to have a "siggeret" lighter or a pack of matches (remember those things?) on you or nearby.
And if they get nocked to the floor (and the glass "flame" {bulb} doesn't become busted), just pick them up and place them back where you found them. No harm, no foul.
The candle has a generously wide base so it can stand up quite stably. And there's a felt disc on the underside so that it won't mar (deface) any furniture that you place it on.
The "flame" is made of what appears to be orange-tinted glass, not real fire.
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To use the Halloween Candle, just screw the "bulb" in a bit until it springs to life.
Then just place it where you would normally place a real candle -- simply place it somewhere and let 'er burn baby burn.
To neutralise the candle, just unscrew the bulb a bit.
To change the AA cells in the Halloween Candle, unscrew the black ribbed ring immediately below the phoney-bologna fake plastic "bulb" until it comes off (the black ring and the bulb should come off as a single piece), buy yourself an airline ticket and fly yourself plus the bulb/ring unit to Hollywood (put them in checked baggage if necessary), bring them to the set of the new movie, "Halloween VI: Season of the Itch", have the special effects crew grind them into microscopic bits to have those itty bitty bits implanted into millions of rolls of bungwipe, and...O WAIT!!! THAT'S THE GOOD PART!!! So save your airfare & just set them aside instead.
Tip the "candle" upside-down over your hand or over a dustbin (wastepaperbasket) and allow the used-up old AA cells to fall into your hand (or directly into the dustbin where they belong).
Slide two new AA cells into the candle's body, orienting them so that their nipple-ends (+) positives go in first.
Screw the bulb and ring assembly back into the top of the candle -- unscrew the bulb a bit if it comes on so that you don't waste those brand spanken new batteries.
Aren't you glad that you didn't fly that bulb & ring ass'y to Hollywood where it would get ground into microscopic bits for the sake of some phoney-bologna fake Halloween movie now?
Unable to measure current usage due to how the product was constructed.
The Halloween Candle is a household lamp, not a flashlight. So I won't hit it against the concrete floor of a patio, throw it in the toilet, stomp on it, throw it against a wall, run over it with a 450lb electric wheelchair, let my landlady's dalmations piddle (uranate) on it, sit on it really hard, or subject it to any other potentially destructive tests that a regular flashlight might be subject to. So this section of the web page will appear more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight and nothing but a flashlight.
The bulb has a standard (in north America anyway) candelabra screw base, but you must ***NEVER, EVER*** screw it into a candelaba socket connected to mains power! The bulb will fail immediately (and possibly rather spectacularly!) if this is done. You don't want wharf rats, crane fly maggots (larvae), baby Emperor scorpions, or mosquito wrigglers (larvae)...I mean, YOU DON'T WANT AN UNWANTED FIRE!!!
I may have to try and break the "flame" after Halloween just to be certain that it is indeed made out of glass rather than hard plastic.
Awww FV¢K !7.
I'll try and break the asinine thing NOW and see what happens...
Well, there ya go.
Glass it is (or WAS). It even made a fairly loud POW! as though the outer bulb had a fairly strong vaccum in it.
It still functions properly (electrically anyway); it just isn't safe to use as a Halloween decoration where children (think Tricker Treaters) can easily access it any longer.
Just because this isn't an LED product doesn't mean that it gets spared punishments that LED products routinely endure.
Photograph of the Halloween Candle, illuminated (before I busted it anyway).
Pic makes the product look brighter and whiter than it actually is!!!
Spectrographic analysis of the incandescent light blub in this candle.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at candle-51.txt
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Right Aid store in Fresno CA. USA on 10-30-20.
Since I already busted mine, I attempted to purchase a replacement on the morning of 10-31-20 but Right Aid had sold them all out.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Battery powered and safe for use around flammable materials
AA cells that it needs for power aren't difficult to obtain
The price is right
NEUTRAL:
"Flame" is made of glass, not silicone like you'd find in similar products
CONS:
Doesn't flicker at all -- this is BY FAR what nocked most of the stars off its rating and gave it a prestigious {cough, sputter, sound of a wall-mounted porcelain uranator flushing} spot in this website's Toylet Bowl.
MANUFACTURER: Unknown for Right Aid stores
PRODUCT TYPE: Tall "candle" with incandescent bulb as a "flame"
LAMP TYPE: 3v "grain of wheat" incandescent light bulb
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: N/A
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: Bulb protected by an orange-tinted glass "flame"
BATTERY: 2x AA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND JACK-O-LANTERN PODDY-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡LA GRAN CALABAZA CEPILLÁNDOSE LOS DIENTES CON UN CEPILLO DE DIENTES QUE CAYERON EN UN UN HABÍA LAVADO HIGIÉNICO, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: 210.20mm H (incl. "flame") x 20.50mm Dia. (candle itself) 60mm Dia. (base)
WEIGHT: 77g (2.68 oz.) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Cambodia
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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