(Halloween) Strobe Light, retail $7.49 (Rightaid.com)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 10-31-20
The rather imaginitively named (cough, sputter, sound of a toliet flushing) Strobe Light is a smallish box that features six intense 3-die phosphor white LEDs that flash at speeds that are user-defineable via an easily accessible (variable resistor) on one side of the product.
It comes in a black plastic body, and feeds from three AAA cells.
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Batteries are included and already installed when you purchase this product, so it is ready to use right away.
There is a "Try Me" button at the end of a short cable; I can see no readily apparent way to remove it other than snipping it off with scissors or a pair of dikes (the wirecutters, not the other kind, hahaha!!! )
The light *MAY* briefly come on as you're cutting the wires; the voltage present on these wires is extremely low (no more than 4.5 volts) so there is no shock or fire hazard whatsoever. "Not no way, not no how" as they say.
Or just simply tuck it out of the way if you're uncomfortable with cutting electrical wires.
To use the (Halloween) Strobe Light, slide the switch on the right side of the product's body (as the "business end" is facing away from you) forward (toward the lights). The LEDs will then flash.
To change the flash rate, turn the knob (located on the opposite side of the product's body as the switch) clockwise as though tightening it to speed up the flashing, and turn it counterclockwise (anticlockwise if you're from the UK) as though loosening it to slow down the flashing.
When you are finished using the (Halloween) Strobe Light and want to neutralise it, slide the switch on the right side of the product's body toward the back of the unit.
To change the batteries in the (Halloween) Strobe Light, turn it upside-down. Use a small or medium phillips screwdriver to loosen the screw holding the battery door on. This screw is captive, and should not fall off and become lost unless you make a concerted effort to remove & dispose of or lose it.
Unclip the battery door & remove it. Carry it to a cemetery and huck it into an open grave so that the zombies get all upset at it and tip a gravestone onto it or even uranate on it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead!
Remove the three old, used-up AAA cells from the battery chamber, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Insert three new AAA cells into the chamber, orienting each cell so that its flat-end (-) negative faces the spring for it in each compartment.
Place the battery door back on, and tighten that screw.
Aren't you glad that you didn't chuck that battery door into an open grave with all those ticked off zombies with full bladders now?
Current usage measures 450mA (all lights "steady-on") on my DMM's 10A scale.
Those poor AAA cells aren't going to last too long with that kind of current usage, tell ya what.
This is a light meant to be placed somewhere indoors (or in a sheltered area outdoors) around Halloween (October 31), not a flashlight meant to be bashed, thrashed, trashed, and abused; I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the toylet bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a porch, use a medium claw hammer in order to smash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island {In the episode "Les Saves the Day...Again", Paulie Preztail says "Hey, ever wonder why this park's called 'Mount Erupto' anyway?", then Franklin Fizzlybear says "I think its an old native term. Means 'very safe.'" }), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that flashlights may have inflicted upon them.
The (Halloween) Strobe Light is very lightly splatter- and weather-resistant, but it is not submersible. If it fell in water and you suspect it got flooded, remove the battery door and batteries, dump as much of the water out as you can, and set the parts in a warm dry place for a day or so just to be sure it's completely dry inside before you reassemble & use it again.
If it fell into seawater, got thrown into a glass of milk, if it fell into a root beer float, if it fell into a bowl of "soft-serv" ice cream, if somebody squirted a Massengill brand post-menstrual disposable douche or a Fleet brand phospho-soda disposable enema at it (and hit it with the douche or the enema), if it got kicked under a leaky car radiator, or if somebody or something got "pist off" at it and subsequently "pyst" on it, rinse the parts out with fresh water before setting them out to dry. You don't want your (Halloween) Strobe Light to smell like seaweed, sour milk, flowers, fresh butts, or rotten piss when you go to use it next. Besides, salt (from seawater, disposable douches, disposable enemas, or uranation), lactic acid (from moo juice), glycerol (from antifreeze), or sugar (from root beer & ice cream) can't be very good for the or the flasher circuit.
Although this product is called the "STROBE light", it is not a true strobe.
That's because the "on" time of the LEDs during each flash is far, far, FAR too long to elicit any stroboscopic effects whatsoever. It is however, very nice to look at. So unless you absolutely must have true stroboscopic effects that only a xenon strobe can produce, I would still highly recommend this product.
The steady-on mode really isn't "steady-on"; the lights do blink rapidly as a result of PWM (Pulse Width Modulation).
Although the packaging materials state that the product has a "High finish mirror reflector", there is no such critter on the actual product. The LEDs are surface-mounted to a jet black plastic platform.
Photograph of the front of the unit in its "on" state.
Measures 28,300mcd (when set to "steady-on") on an Amprobe LM631A light meter.
Spectrographic analysis of the phosphor white LEDs in this flasher.
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this flasher; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 470nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 453.290nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at hstrobe.txt
***EPILEPSY WARNING*** Video on YourTube showing the (Halloween) Strobe Light strobing.
The first part of the video shows the unit itself strobing; the second part shows the unit illuminating (what I believe is) an ornate Chinese teapot of some type.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it causes you to become piddled off or makes your ears bleed.
I added, "***EPILEPSY WARNING***" to the video title because it has flashing lights.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit of this plus one other Halloween product was purchased at a Right-Aid store in Fresno CA. USA on 10-30-20.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: LED flasher for Halloween
LAMP TYPE: Triple-die high-powered SMD phosphor white LED
No. OF LAMPS: 6
BEAM TYPE: Fairly wide flood
SWITCH TYPE: Slide switch on/off; rotary pot for speed ctrl
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: Plastic; LEDs protected by plastic window
BATTERY: 3x AAA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 450mA (all lights "steady-on")
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistant at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡UN TRUCO O TRATADOR VESTIDA COMO LA GRAN CALABAZA ORINAR EN UN JACK-O, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: 3 AAA cells
SIZE: 78.60mm L x 80.20mm W (not incl. knob) x 44.20mm T
WEIGHT: 98g (3.46 oz.) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
This is a seasonal product, and will not be rated for that reason.
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