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PURPLE MINI LED LIGHT SET

Purple Mini LED Light Set, retail $6.50
Manufactured by (Unknown) for Right Aid (www.rightaid.com)
Last updated 10-29-20

These light sets were found in a Right Aid store in the western coast of the United States (the state of California, to be specific) in early-October 2020 for $12.99 each -- though they were specially marked as being 50% off.

The light sets contain 20 (twenty) "micro blob" phosphor purple LEDs, powered by three AA cells inside a plastic battery pack.

They can only be set to all operate continuously.

Total length is stated as 10.60 feet (3.23M); lighted length stated as 9.60 feet (2.92M).

SIZE

Feed the lights first (see directly below), remove the "Try Me" button, and then you can go decorate that porch.

To remove the "Try Me" button, follow the wires from the pushbutton switch to the battery box. Near the battery box, you should see them plugged into a short "pigtail". Unplug the switch here and do with it as you see fit. Do not dispose of it by flushing or by throwing it into a trout-filled stream as there is a small battery carriage with at least three button cells in it, and batteries aren't that great for the environment.

This is the Try Me switch with its attached battery pack.

String these up as you would oridinary (corded) seasonal lights, but handle them carefully because the wires are considerably thinner than the wires are on corded sets. Hang them on porches, mantles, doorways, or other places where you might normally hang light sets.

To turn them on, slide the blsck switch on the battery box to the "ON" position (toward the edge of the battery box); to turn them off, slide the black switch on the battery box to the "OFF" position (toward the center of the battery box)

To change the batteries, slide the battery door off, 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 XI: Season of the Sandwitch", have the special effects crew grind it into microscopic bits to have those itty bitty bits implanted into millions of landline and cellular telephone handsets, and...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So save your airfare & just set it aside instead.

If necessary, remove and dispose of or recycle the three used AA cells from the compartment.

Insert three new AA cells in the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.

Slide the battery door, and be done with it.

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?

Current usage measures a surprisingly modest 68.20mA on my DMM's 200mA scale.

These light sets appear at least *reasonably* durable, in that they should not just fall apart on their own or through just casual handling.

This product is meant to be used as a Halloween light string in a reasonably dry area indoors, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused; so I won't try to drown them in my toilet, bash them against the concrete floor of a patio or a steel rod, let my landlady's dalmations uranate (piddle) on them, run over them with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 (motorised wheelchair), or perform other indecencies that a regular flashlight might have to go through.

The instructional materials do state that these lights are for indoor use only; this alone tells me that water-resistance will be minimal at best. I'm going to hang them on a covered porch outside though; THIS will tell me if the nighttime humidity will take them out or not.

One thing that I noted almost immediately is that these lights are extremely blue!
I mean there's a slight purplish cast to them, but if you asked 100 "Joe Blows" off the street what color they were, I'd venture to guess that at least 95 of them would holler out, "BLUE!!!"
I noted this at once even before I purchased them and that a spectrographic analysis would reveal the true cause -- and it did. The phosphor emission in the orange and red is way too low.

Photograph of the set, illuminated of course.

Photograph of the set strung up on our front porch.

Another photograph of the set strung up on our front porch; this one taken by the camera in my Holy Stone HS470 Brushless 4K Drone w/ Gimbal.

Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this light set.
See how the phosphor "hump" in the orange and red is really low? That's precisely why these lights have a distinct blue hue instead of looking truly purple.

Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 445nm and 465nm to pinpoint the LEDs' native emission wavelength, which is 456.110nm.

Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 600nm and 640nm to pinpoint the phosphor's peak emission wavelength, which is 624.023nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 20hall.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at a local Right Aid on 10-23-20.

UPDATE: 00-00-00

MANUFACTURER: Unknown for Right Aid
PRODUCT TYPE: Battery-operated holiday light set
LAMP TYPE: "Blob-type" phosphor purple LED
No. OF LAMPS: 20
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/off on battery box
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 3x AA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 68.20mA
WATER- AND TIGER MICTURITION-RESISTANT: Very light sprinkle-resistance at maximum (though if a tiger really does go poddy on it, you've got FAR bigger problems than a stinky, wet, dead light string, hahaha!!! )
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡UN ZOMBI DEJANDO UNA CACA EN UN TAZÓN DE HIGIÉNICO, NOOOOO!!!
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: Total length 10.60 feet (3.23M); lighted length 9.60 feet (2.92M)
WEIGHT: 99g (3.49oz) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Cambodia
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

PRODUCT RATING:

(This is a provisional rating; if I note any issues after using them for awhile, off come more stars.)

Purple Mini LED Light Set *

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