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EASTER LIGHT-UP FLYING DISC

Easter Light-Up Flying Disc, retail $1.98 (www.walmart.com...)
Manufactured by (Unkown)
Last updated 03-04-21

The Easter Light-Up Flying Disc is a Frisbee®-like disc that you throw like a Frisbee® to have it fly through the air.

The primary difference here though, is that this flying disc lights up.

It has three LEDs (one each red, green, and blue) near its center that light up; they're on a platform with fan blades that rotates when the disc is airborne so that you get a bit of a light show while the disc is in the air.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

To use the Easter Light-Up Flying Disc, look for a black slide switch on the green inner portion of the disc, and slide it to the "ON" position.

All you do now is throw it as you would a Frisbee® or other brand of flying disc.

When you're finished playing, slide the slide switch on that green inner portion of the Easter Light-Up Flying Disc to the "OFF" position.

This is advertised as being disposable, however you *CAN* change the batteries in it if you're handy with a screwdriver.

To change the batteries if you're averse to throwing things away, turn the disc upside-down and look for a little green tit in the exact dead center. Using the handle of a butterknife or the butt of a large screwdriver, push this tit until it is at least somewhat flush with the blue plastic surrounding it.

Turn the disc over. On the upper surface, again at the center, is a smallish green disc that should be slightly protruding now. Using the blade of the butterknife or a large standared screwdriver, place the blade under that disc and give a little twist. You should now be able to grasp that center piece. Pull up on it (and jiggle it a bit if necessary) and remove it. Set it aside.

Now that green piece with the "fan blades" on it should lift right off.

Using a small or medium Phillips screwdriver, unscrew & remove the two screws. The screws are somewhat small but not what I would consider "vaccumably small" so you should not lose them unless you're especially careless.

Remove the back piece and set that aside as well.

Lift out the circuit board. You should see three LR1130 button cells in little metal holders for each individual cell.

Using a small screwdriver, push the cells out of their carriages from the center, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert three new LR1130 cells -- one cell in each carriage - from the openings on the outer edge of the circuit board, orienting each cell so that it's flat side (+) positive faces upward. The cells will offer some physical resistance; this is to be expected (or hoped for anyway).

Place the circuit board face-down into the green part; orienting it so that the switch protrudes through the large opening in one side.

Place the green back piece back on, and align the two screw holes with the two threaded posts in the compartment;p then insert and *GENTLY* tighten the screws. I say, "*GENTLY*" here because the screw posts are plastic and you can rather easily strip the threads if you overtighten those screws.

Place the entire green piece back onto the blue disc; it should readily slide down the central post when you have it on correctly.

Insert that green post (with the small disc at one end) directly into that hole in the center, and firmly press it down until it stops moving.

There, done.

This process sounds a heck of a lot more difficult to do than it actually is.

The Easter Light-Up Flying Disc is meant to be used as a toy in a large dry area outdoors or a large indoor venue, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, trashed, bashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, viciously chuck it at one of those wall-mounted porcelain uranators to see if it becomes broken (the disc, not the uranator!), try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoñata is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, launch it into the upper atmosphere of Gamalon V** so that chairman Sonji gets all bent out of shape about it, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.

So this section of the Easter Light-Up Flying Disc's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the page about a flashlight.

Photograph of the product, "illuminurinated" of course.

I don't have a video of it because I'm in a wheelchair and physically can't play frisbee.
I purchased solely because of the LEDs in it.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this disc.
That hump in the green is from the green LED and could not be avoided.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this disc; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 630nm and 650nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 637.620nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at lufd-r.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the green LED in this disc.
That hump in the blue is from the blue LED and could not be avoided.

Spectrographic analysis of the greenLED in this disc; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 500nm and 520nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 513.730nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at lufd-g.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this disc.
That hump in the green is from the green LED and could not be avoided.

Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this disc; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 460nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 451.180nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at lufd-b.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at a Wall*Mart store in Fresno CA. USA on the afternoon of 03-01-21.

* Gay = bright and lively, *NOT* homosexual.

UPDATE: 00-00-00

PROS:
Very colorful and gay*
The price is most definitely right

NEUTRAL:

CONS:
Has a somewhat "cheap" feel to it like many inpen$ive products of Hoo Phlung Pu origin so often do

Unknown for Wall*Mart

Light-up flying disc

3mm LED

3 (1 ea. red, green, blue)

N/A

Slide swith on/off

Plastic

N/A

3x LR1130 button cells

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light sprinkle-resistance at maximum

HUSOOS CRISTO TRAGEN EINE WINDEL PINKELN GEFÜLLT, NEIN!

3x LR1130 button cells

~223.10mm Dia. x 17.40mm deep

58g (2.05 oz.)

China

Unknown/not stated

Easter Light-Up Flying Disc * www.walmart.com...

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