Fall Maple Leaf String Lights, retail $4.65 (www.wish.com...)
Manufactured by (unknown)
Last updated 02-18-22
Tired of getting out the holiday lights every year and finding they don't work because half of the blubs are busted?
Tired of the endless chore of hunting down & changing bulbs as they go out over the duration of the holidays?
Do you live in California or Washington and pay so much for power you can no longer afford to put up lights anymore?
Than this light set is for you.
The Fall Maple Leaf String Lights is a set of battery-powered LED Halloween/Thanksgiving lights that are cheery and colorful.
This light set has 10, 20, or 40 (I purchased the 40-LED set) T1 (3mm) very warm white phosphor LEDs with inverse conical lenses.
The wire is a silvery color; but what sets these lights apart from most other types of holiday string lights is that there are orange, silk-like "maple leaves" behind each "bulb".
Although labelled for indoor use, I believe you can safely ("safely" NOT in an electric shock risk here; I mean safety of the light set itself in this context. You certainly won't get zapped on the meager 4.5 volts that this set uses!!!) use the set outdoors in a covered area (such as on a porch) where rain or snow cannot fall directly or indirectly on the battery box. The LEDs themselves appear to have at least light to moderate protection against rain or snow ingress.
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Feed the lights first (see directly below), and then you can go decorate that porch.
String these up as you would ordinary (corded) seasonal lights, but handle them at least reasonably gently because the wires are just slightly thinner than the wires are on corded sets. Hang them on porches, mantles, doorways, or other places where you might normally hang light sets.
Or just hang the suckers off your dorm room ceiling for that special holiday feeling all year 'round.
To turn them on, slide the black slide switch on the battery box to the right until it clicks once to turn them on in "blink" mode (where the LEDs flash in unison (together) on and off at a rate of approx. 1.8Hz). Slide it some more to turn them on in continuous mode (all lamps in the set come on).
To neutralise them when you are finished using them, slide the switch to the leftmost position.
To change the batteries, slide the battery door off in the direction of the arrow embossed onto it, and carefully place it on the floor directly in front of the kitchen table so that a stray 24 pound (10.89kg) turkey slips on it and shoots across the living room and smacks into you...O WAIT!!! THAT'S A REALLY $#¡77Y IDEA!!!
Just set the damn thing aside instead.
If necessary, remove and dispose of the three used AA cells from the compartment and dispose of them as you see fit (or recycle them if your community has a battery reclamation program in place).
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 back on, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad that you didn't leave it in front of the kitchen table where a Thankgiving accident could occur now?
Current usage measures 137.90mA on my DMM's 200mA scale.
This equates to a rather modest 3.44mA per LED.
These light sets appear at least *reasonably* durable (except for the battery box; which has a chintzy, brittle, cheap feel to it like many products of "Hoo Phlung Pu" origin {often made by underpaid workers in perspiration shops} so often do), in that they should not just fall apart on their own or through just casual handling; though if the set is dropped from any significant height, that battery box may become busted.
This product is meant to be used as a Halloween or Thanksgiving light string in a reasonably dry area indoors or in a covered location outdoors, 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 doggos pass micturition (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.
There is no evidence of PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) at least at low-AF (audio frequencies); however my oscillope was stolen from me in late-2018 so I am not equipped to test for the presence of PWM at higher frequencies.
Water-resistance appears to be higher than usual; just keep the battery box bone dry and you should be ok.
The "leaves" have an unpleasant odour that was most closely associated with slightly rotting dead fish; this stink isn't strong (e.g. it won't permeate even a small room), but is easily detectable if you directly sniff the "leaves".
Photograph of the set, illuminated of course.
Indoors, no photoflash.
Photograph of the set, deployed in my room.
No photoflash.
Photograph of one of the leaves; LED-side.
Photograph of one of the leaves; plain (non-LED) side.
Spectrographic analysis of one of the LEDs in this light set.
Spectrographic analysis of one of the LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 445nm and 465nm to pinpoint native LED emission peak wavelength, which is 455.060nm.
Spectrographic analysis of one of the LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 595nm and 615nm to pinpoint phosphor wavelength, which is 603.320nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 40maple.txt
***EPILEPSY WARNING FOR FLASHING LIGHTS!!!***
Video on YouTube showing both modes of the Fall Maple Leaf String Lights.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Wish.com on 02-03-22 and was received at 10:42am PST on 02-17-22.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Has a VERY warm white light
Reasonably bright
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
Battery box feels very brittle and cheap (the lid was already cracked when I received it)
The "leaves" emit a faint "rotting dead fish" odour. It isn't, "piss you!!!" bad, but it is noticeable if you sniff the leaves directly.
MANUFACTURER: (Unknown)
PRODUCT TYPE: Battery-operated holiday light set
LAMP TYPE: T1 (3mm) phosphor warm white LEDs with inverse conical lenses
No. OF LAMPS: 40
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/off/flash on battery box
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic and silvery insulated wire; silk-like "leaves"
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 3x AA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 137.90mA (all lights on steadily)
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Light splatter-resistant at best (though the lighted portion appears more water-resistant)
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡HUSOOS CRISTO TENIENDO UN VOLCADO, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: Lighted length est. 14.0 feet (4.27M)
WEIGHT: 129.30g (4.55 oz.) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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