Fibre Optic LED Color Changing Night Light, $12.99
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Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 09-23-24
The Fibre Optic LED Color Changing Night Light (hereinafter, probably just called a, "light") is a fiber optic light that runs on 3x AAA cells or USB power from your computer or a USB power adapter commonly used for charging tablets and cellular telephone handsets.
It runs cool as its light source is LEDs so you need not worry about being burned on it or attracting botfly maggots (larvae) and baby funnel web spiders...er...uh...STARTING AN UNWANTED FIRE.
And it performs an automatic "color wash" where the light color smoothly changes. The light not only comes from te fibers themselves, but from "crystals" in the conical base.
To use the light, just plug the male USB-A plug into any free female USB-A receptacle on your PC or Mac computer or into the female USB-A receptacle on a USB power adapter commonly used for charging tablets and cellular telephone handsets. Altenately, you may install three AAA cells (see directly below) and use the light away from your computer or AC outlet.
On the underside of the light, you'll see a small slide switch. Slide it toward the "ON" legend embossed near this switch to operate it on battery power; or slide it to the "OFF" position to operate it from USB power.
Place the light where the optical fibers are free to wave about and not become entangled in curtains, tapestries, or other furnishings.
If the place you put the light is a bit breezy, so much the better.
To change the batteries when they peter out, turn the unit upside-down, and use a finger or a small screwdriver to lift the battery door. Remove it, throw it in the loo, and casually flush it way...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.
If necessary, remove and dispose of or recycle the three crapped-out AAA cells. Do not flush them down the toliet or drop them into a dolly varden-filled creek or those tree huggers might swarm around and beat the living tweedle out of you.
Install three new AAA cells into the chamber, orienting them so that their flat-ends (-) negatives face the springs for them in each compartment.
Snap that battery door back in place, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad that you didn't flush away that battery door now?
This lamp is meant to be used as a decorative lamp in a dry area, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the toliet bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, swing it against a loo ring, 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 or with a handheld wand), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or inflict upon it punishments that flashlights may have inflicted upon them. Therefore, this section of the web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
The lamp is rather sensitive to breezes; the fibers will wave about slowly and with large range of motion when it is even lightly blown upon. You can set it on the patio (turned on, of course) in a very light breeze, and the fibers will wave about slowly - this effect is especially stunning at night or in very subdued lighting.
The lower part of the unit; these "crystals" glow with the LED color being shot into the optical fibers.
Video of the product.
That music you hear is from the Commodore 64 video game, "Master of the Lamps" by Activision from 1984.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it causes you to become "pyst oph", "maiks" "yer" "eerz" "blead", "orr " "maiks" "ewe" "wont" "tu" "kik" "wun" "uv" "thoas" "wal"-"mowntid" "porselen" "orr" "staneles" "steal" "uranatorz" "oph" "thuh" "wal", "bete" "thuh" "liveng" "tweadel" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withe" "yer" "phavourite" "noo" "galf" "klubzz", "ahnd" "thenn" "suk" "uhp" "thuh" "busstid" "peaces" "uv" "itt" "whith" "uh" "bran" "spanken" "noo" ("orr" "mouldie" "ahnd" "karroded" "ohlde") "Yero" "Proh" "bhaglis" "stik" "sharck" "vacume" "kleenar". ;-)
TEST NOTES:
Unit was gifted to me as a birthday present by my sister and B.I.L. in mid-September 2024.
UPDATE 00-00-00
PROS:
Decent intensity
Nice looking when on OR off
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
Fibers could have been a little longer
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Fiber optic light
LAMP TYPE: LED
No. OF LAMPS: Unknown
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/off on prodct's underside
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 3x AAA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND ASIAN ELEPHANT MICTURITION-RESISTANT: Very light sprinkle-resistance at maximum (though if a huge elephant really does go poddy on it, you've got FAR bigger problems than a stinky dead light, hahaha!!! )
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡EL CONEJITO DE PASCUA CON UN CEPILLO DE DIENTES QUE CAYÓ EN UN HIGIÉNICO DE LOS, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE:
WEIGHT: unknown/unable to weigh
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown
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