Handy Brite Cordless LED Work Light, retail $8.99 (rightaid.com...)
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Last updated 06-02-20
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The Handy Brite is an unexpectedly "brite" work light / trouble light that uses a unique (to me anyway as of mid-2020) phosphor white LED array to produce its very wide-angle light, and feeds from three AA cells -- already included and installed.
It can be stood upon a flat surface, hung by its handy-dandy hook, or be magnetically affixed to any ferrous surface such as iron, mild steel, cobalt, gadolinium, etc.
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The Handy Brite comes ready to use straight out of the package, as the AA cells it uses are already installed.
To turn it on, press the generously-sized rocker switch on the "I" legend silkscreened on it.
And to neutralise it, press the rocker switch on the "O" legend.
To change the batteries in the Handy Brite, turn it over so that the "good" part faces the floor.
Use a small Phillips screwdriver to unscrew & remove the screw from the battery door, and set it aside.
Lift up the battery door and remove it, and set that aside as well.
Relieve the battery chamber of its three tired old AA cells, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Install three new AA cells, orienting them so that their flat-ends (-) negatives face the springs for them in each compartment.
Place the battery door back on, and screw that little screw back in.
Done with that, fun yeah!
Current usage measures an unexpectedly high (for an AA cell light) 798mA on my DMM's 10A scale.
I fully expected the Handy Brite to become busted early into The Smack Test because it has a cheap, brittle feel to it like many Hoo Phlung Pu brand products do; this is why I recorded video of the test.
Brief video on YourTube showing the Handy Brite Cordless LED Work Light unexpectedly passing The Smack Test.
As you can see, it passed this test with flying colors (or, "colours" if you prefer); there was some rather minor gouging where it struck the brick wall but no optical or electrical malfunctions were detected.
Water-resistance appears to be minimal at best; there appears to be no environmental seals (such as O-rings) in the product at all.
Heatsinking for the LED array appears adequate: when the light was operated for five minutes and the LED temperature was measured, I got a reading of just 108.2°F (42.3°C).
On the front of the work light where the "wire cage" is, that cage appears to be fastened to the face of the product by six Phillips-head screws -- but the screws are just dummy "screws" moulded into the plastic for cosmetic purposes.
Beam terminus photograph on the test target at 12".
Measures 121,600mcd on an Amprobe LM631A light meter.
This is a wide-angle light though, and if I've told you once, I've told you 31,054,500 times: wider viewing angles always, always, ALWAYS equal lower mcd values!!!
Note the dark "bars" in the radiation field; these are caused by the plastic "cage" on the front of the unit.
Beam terminus photograph on a wall at ~8 feet.
Closeup of the LED matrix while illuminated.
Closeup of the LED matrix while not illuminated.
Work light shown magnetically affixed to the side of my landlady's automobile.
Work light shown hanging from its hook on our front porch.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this work light.
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Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this work light; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 460nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 451.180nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at h-brite.txt
A beam cross-sectional analysis would normally appear here, but the ProMetric System
that I use for that test was destroyed by lightning in mid-July 2013.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at a Right-Aid in Fresno CA. USA on 05-31-20.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Brighter than H-E-Double-Bendy-Straws
Uses batteries that are common and relatively inexpen$ive
More durable than outward appearances would indicate
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CONS:
Unexpectly high current usage could mean very short battery life
Not very water-resistant at all
Cage is plastic and even has phoney-bologna "screws"
MANUFACTURER: Unknown for neweasy.com
PRODUCT TYPE: Cordless LED work/trouble light
LAMP TYPE: Linear phosphor white LED array (24 dice)
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: Wide flood w/ vertical dark bars in it
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A (stippled "reflector" for aesthetic purposes only)
SWITCH TYPE: Rocker-style on/off on barrel
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic *
BEZEL: Plastic; LED array slightly inset into hosel for it
BATTERY: 3x AA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 798mA
WATER- AND LION PISS-RESISTANT: Light sprinkle-resistance only -- though if a lion really does piddle on it you've got far bigger problems than a stinky, wet, dead work light!
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡EL CONEJITO DE PASCUA QUE UNA FUGA EN UN CAMPO DONDE LA CAZA UN HUEVO DE PASCUA ESTÁ PRODUCIENDO, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: 3x AA cells
SIZE: 840mm L x 205mm D x 280mm W
WEIGHT: 137g (4.83 oz.) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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