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਍ഀ Ozark Trail Penlight, retail $9.82* (www.wallart.com...) ਍ഀ
਍ഀ Manufactured by (Unknown) for Wall*Mart (www.wallmart.com)
਍ഀ Last updated 11-09-20਍ഀ
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਍ഀ The Ozark Trail Penlight is part of a six-piece package that also includes an LED lantern, two LED flashlights, and an LED headlamp.਍ഀ
਍ഀ For this review, I'll only be focusing on the penlight.਍ഀ

਍ഀ This penlight uses a single high-power phosphor white LED to produce a remarkably potent medium spot with soft corona.਍ഀ

਍ഀ It gets its power from two AAA cells, which are included in the package.਍ഀ

਍ഀ Advertised runtime is 3 hours.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ

਍ഀ * This comes as a six-piece set, including two of these penlights, two flashlights, an LED lantern, a head lamp, and 17 AAA cells all for $9.82.਍ഀ ਍ഀ


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਍ഀ To use the penlight, feed it first (see directly below) and THEN you'll be ready to go camping or brighten up that room after a power failure.਍ഀ

਍ഀ To turn the penlight on, press & release black button on the tailcap.਍ഀ

਍ഀ To turn the penlight off, just do the same thing.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ


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਍ഀ To change the AAA cells in this penlight, unscrew and remove the tailcap, huck it out your kitchen window so that a dustcart (garbage truck) comes along, runs over it, and flattens it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead. ਍ഀ

਍ഀ Tip the "dead-as-a-doorknob" AAA cells from the barrel and dispose of them into the dustbin (garbage can) or drop them into the battery recycling box if your community has a battery reclamation program in place.਍ഀ

਍ഀ Install two new AAA cells into penlight, orienting them so that their button-ends (+) positives go in first.਍ഀ

਍ഀ Finally, screw that tailcap back on.਍ഀ
਍ഀ Aren't you glad that you didn't chuck it out the window now? ਍ഀ

਍ഀ Current usage measures 108.5mA on my DMM's 200mA scale.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ


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਍ഀ I bashed it against a brick wall ten times (five against the side of the bezel, and five against the side of the tailcap) and was able to expose the bare Metalmarineangemon - er - the bare Metaltrailmon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalmegidramon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!) on the side of the bezel and tailcap where it was struck.਍ഀ

਍ഀ No electrical or optical malfunctions were detected.਍ഀ
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਍ഀ This is a video of a second Smack Test that I performed; there was no video made of the original test.਍ഀ
਍ഀ Results were similar to those found after the first test; though there was no metal exposure -- just some scuffing. ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ

਍ഀ The purpose of The Smack Test isn't to see how badly damaged the external parts of the penlight would become; it gauges how well (or how poorly) the LED and driver circuit handles the instantaneous G-forces encountered during this test. The Ozark Trail Penlight passed the test.਍ഀ

਍ഀ I also performed, "The Toliet Test" on the penlight.
਍ഀ To my mild surprise, it passed.਍ഀ

਍ഀ So if you're up in Alaska in mid-March watching the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, the penlight falls next to a milepost marker, and a sled dog has a wee on it, just take the garden hose to it or douche it off under the tap (faucet) -- good as new.਍ഀ
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਍ഀ Here's proof that I really performed, "The Toliet Test" on this penlight.਍ഀ
਍ഀ It passed this test unexpectedly well.਍ഀ
਍ഀ I did suction the barrel and detected a leak -- it wasn't a HUGE leak like I've found in other lights, but there was a leak nonetheless. So while shallow-water landings or a dog pissing on it probably won't kill it, you definitely don't want to use this as a dive light.਍ഀ

਍ഀ I noted that there is significant battery rattle present; one need not shake the flashlight hard at all in order to hear and feel it. ਍ഀ ਍ഀ
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਍ഀ Flashlight beam terminus photograph on a wall at 12".
਍ഀ Measures 135,000mcd on an Amprobe LM631A light meter.
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Output is stated as being 30 lumens; however you need a rather expen$ive instrument called an integrating sphere to measure light in lumens, and I do not own or have access to one of these critters.਍ഀ

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਍ഀ Flashlight beam terminus photograph of my room at ~10 feet.਍ഀ
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਍ഀ ਍ഀ Macro photo of its phosphor white LED.਍ഀ
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਍ഀ Spectrographic analysis of the white LED in this flashlight.਍ഀ
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਍ഀ Spectrographic analysis of the white LED in this flashlight; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 435nm and 455nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 443.410nm.਍ഀ
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਍ഀ The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at ot-pen.txt਍ഀ
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਍ഀ USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.਍ഀ
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਍ഀ 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. ਍ഀ


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਍ഀ TEST NOTES:
਍ഀ Test unit (the entire kit actually) was purchased from the proprietor of the Happy Market located at the intersection of N. Maple Ave. and W. Shields Ave. in Fresno CA. USA on 04-29-20.
਍ഀ He offered to sell it to me; of course since I've been running this website for over 20 years, I took the bate.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ

਍ഀ * This comes as a six-piece set, including two of these penlights, two flashlights, an LED lantern, a head lamp, and 17 AAA cells all for $9.82.਍ഀ ਍ഀ


਍ഀ ਍ഀ UPDATE: 08-18-20
਍ഀ When the product is carried LED-side up (to use as a kind of electronic "candle"), it sporadically blinks off and back on; this tells me that the battery spring in the tailcap is starting to peter out. ਍ഀ
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਍ഀ As a result, this light will be significantly derated -- from four stars to two stars.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ


਍ഀ ਍ഀ UPDATE: 08-27-20
਍ഀ The flickering has become intolerable -- to such a degree that I've quit using the product as an EDC light.਍ഀ
਍ഀ As a result, I have little choice but to derate it again and "award" it the "prestigious" {cough, sputter, sound of a toliet flushing} "Zero Stars. Whip Out Your Ding-A-Ling or Sit on the Poddy and Uranate On It" rating.਍ഀ ਍ഀ


਍ഀ ਍ഀ UPDATE: 08-28-20
਍ഀ Rather than abandoning all hope, I've begun to use the other unit (two were included in the package), so we'll see how that pans out. The second unit does not have flickering issues -- but this will be one of those, "only time will tell" situations. ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ


਍ഀ ਍ഀ UPDATE: 09-12-20
਍ഀ The second unit has begun to flicker -- which really didn't surprise me in the least.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ


਍ഀ ਍ഀ UPDATE: 11-05-20
਍ഀ Remember this old ditty?:਍ഀ

਍ഀ ♪ Finder keeper ♪
਍ഀ ♪ Loser sweeper! ♪਍ഀ

਍ഀ I guess I need to buy, beg, borrow, or steal a broom then so that I may commence sweeping at once.਍ഀ
਍ഀ Why?਍ഀ
਍ഀ Because I lost the blue version of this penlight yesterday morning on my way to fly a UAV. It had been clipped to my pocket, and somehow (and unnoticeably) fell off somewhere between home and my flying venue approx. a mile away.਍ഀ
਍ഀ Retracing my steps failed to turn it up, so I think that somebody got themselves a free flashlight.਍ഀ
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਍ഀ As a result, the somewhat dreadful, "" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website at once denoting the fact that one unit has become destroyed or lost but I have another. ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ


਍ഀ ਍ഀ UPDATE: 11-09-20
਍ഀ My landlady's husband found it several days ago near a tree a couple of houses down; he returned it to me last night.
਍ഀ He told me that it was glowing when he found it; it was this glow that caught his eye. He then told me that his wife (my landlady) had seen me using it before and thus recognised it as mine.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ
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਍ഀ PROS:
਍ഀ The price is most definitely right!
਍ഀ Great intensity
਍ഀ Batteries it needs are common and relatively inexpen$ive਍ഀ ਍ഀ
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਍ഀ CONS:
਍ഀ Not HUGELY water-resistant; use it for fairweather or lightly rainy/snowy camping trips only
਍ഀ Significant battery rattle਍ഀ ਍ഀ


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਍ഀ ਍ഀ MANUFACTURER: Unknown
਍ഀ PRODUCT TYPE: LED penlight
਍ഀ LAMP TYPE: High-powered phosphor white LED
਍ഀ No. OF LAMPS: 1
਍ഀ BEAM TYPE: Medium spot w/ soft fall-off to perimeter
਍ഀ REFLECTOR TYPE: Mirror-smooth reflector
਍ഀ SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton "REVERSE CLICKY" on/off on tailcap
਍ഀ CASE MATERIAL: Aluminum
਍ഀ BEZEL: LED protected by plastic window
਍ഀ BATTERY: 2x AAA cells
਍ഀ CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 108.5mA
਍ഀ WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Weather-and splatter-resistant
਍ഀ SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, to shallow depths for brief periods at maximum
਍ഀ ACCESSORIES: 17x AAA cells*
਍ഀ SIZE: 506mm L x 55mm dia.
਍ഀ WEIGHT: 31g (1.13 oz. incl. batteries
਍ഀ COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
਍ഀ WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated ਍ഀ

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