Halloween LED Tea Light, retail $2.44 (www.wall*mart.com)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 10-09-20
These are LED-based "tea lights" -- 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, just pick them up and place them back where you found them. No harm, no foul.
The "flame" is made of a hard plastic, not real fire.
* Price shown is for a package of four (4) tea lights -- including batteries.
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To use the LED Tea Light, just slide the little black switch on the underside of the candle toward the "ON" legend embossed next to the switch, and place it where you would normally place a real tea light -- this could be inside a frosted glass jar or simply placed somewhere and not covered at all.
The candle will spring to life immediately after you turn its switch on.
To neutralise the candle, simply slide that little switch on its underside the other way (toward the "OFF" legend).
To change the power cell ("battery") in the LED Tea Light, turn it upside-down, unclip and remove the battery door, buy yourself an airline ticket and fly yourself plus the battery door to Hollywood (put it in checked baggage if necessary), bring it to the set of the new movie, "Halloween VI: Season of the Itch", have the special effects crew grind it into microscopic bits to have those itty bitty bits implanted into millions of rolls of bungwipe, and...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So save your airfare & just set it aside instead.
Remove the used CR2032 cell from the battery chamber in the base, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Install a new CR2032 lithium coin cell into the compartment, orienting it so that its button-end (-) negative faces the inside of the compartment.
Place the battery door back onto the candle portion, and snap it into place.
Aren't you glad that you didn't fly that battery door 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 and how it functions.
The LED Tea Light 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.
Just for {vulgar slang term for multiple feces} and giggles, let's try The Toliet Test and see what happens.
If this tea light becomes ruined, there are three more in the package.
As expected, it flunked The Toliet Test; but one thing that caught me with my pants down is that it floats!
After a short time, the unit turned on by itself; though much dimmer than normal. I still saw flickering, so the current draw was sufficient to activate the flickering circuit.
Photograph of the LED Tea Light (Halloween), illuminated.
Pic makes the product look brighter and whiter than it actually is!!!
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this candle.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this candle; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 595nm and 615nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength; which is 605.670nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at candle60.txt
A video (hosted on YourTube) that shows the Halloween LED Tea Light flickering.
That music that you hear is the jingle to the Silver Shamrock TV commercial that played on the movie, "Halloween V: Season of the Snitch"...er...um...I mean, "HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH".
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Wall*Mart store in Fresno CA. USA on 10-07-20.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Battery powered and safe for use around flammable materials
CR2032 lithium coin cells that they use for power aren't TOO difficult to obtain
NEUTRAL:
"Flame" is made of hard plastic, not silicone like you'd find in similar products
CONS:
Flickering appears rather artificial (this is what nocked the most stars off its rating)
MANUFACTURER: Unknown for Wall*Mart stores
PRODUCT TYPE: LED tea candle
LAMP TYPE: Orange LED
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide switch on/off on base
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: LED protected by a hard plastic "flame"
BATTERY: 1x CR2032 lithium coin cell
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: 4x CR2032 lithium coin cells (one in each unit)
SIZE: 33.80mm H (incl. "flame") x 37.20mm Dia.
WEIGHT: 11g incl. battery
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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