Kingman 5xLED Bicycle Caution Light, retail $3.99 ()
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Last updated 03-07-22
The Kingman 5xLED Bicycle Caution Light is a bike taillight that uses five red LEDs behind individual positive (magnifying) lenses.
It is powered by two AAA cells (that you furnish yourself) and has seven operational modes plus "off".
The Kingman 5xLED Bicycle Caution Light comes in a plastic body, and is weather-resistant but NOT submersible to ANY depth.
It does have an O-ring but this O-ring is just a common, garden-variety red rubber band.
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Feed the Kingman 5xLED Bicycle Caution Light two AAA cells (see directly below), and THEN you'll be ready to rumble.
Press the blue button on the back and then release it to turn the Kingman 5xLED Bicycle Caution Light on in steady-on mode.
Press & release the button again to change to a flashing mode.
Do it again and again and again to keep changing modes,
Do this an eighth time to neutralise the Kingman 5xLED Bicycle Caution Light.
Just like it reads on the backs of many shampoo bottles, "lather, rinse, repeat". In other words, actuatimg the unit again turns the unit on in steady-on mode.
To change the batteries in the Kingman 5xLED Bicycle Caution Light, hold onto the black bottom half with one hand, and pry the top off from either end. Use a dull knife such as a butterknife if necessary to help pry the top off -- insert the rounded tip of the knife into the little slot in the end and give it a gentle twist.
THIS PROCESS SEEMS A BIT FIDDLY; THIS IS GOING TO DETRACT FROM ITS RATING!
Carry the red upper piece top to the top of the basement stairs, and kick it down into the basement crawling with hungry, hungry silverfish that have to go poddy so that they all sniff & snuffle at the damn thing, find that it smells like caca, and decide to pass micturition on it in unison...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.
If necessary, remove and dispose of or recycle the two used AAA cells from their compartments.
Install two new AAA cells, orienting them so that their flat-ends (-) negatives face the springs for them in each compartment.
Place the upper half over the lower half of the light (being certain that the O-ring/rubber band is properly in place), squeezing them together until the parts are flush with one another.
Aren't you glad that you didn't kick that upper half down the stairs to all of those hungry silverfish with full bladders now?
This is a bicycle light in a plastic body, not a flashlight in a metal body that's meant to be bashed, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a porch, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a large claw hammer in order to smash 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 laser-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 analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight in a metal or sturdier plastic body might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight and nothing but a flashlight.
The positive (magnifying) lenses in front of each LED are moulded into the plastic window which serves to protect the LEDs.
Beam terminus photograph on a wall at 12".
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this bicycle taillight.
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this bicycle taillight; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 620nm and 640nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 630.330nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at king-r.txt
EPILEPSY WARNING FOR FLASHING LIGHTS!
Brief video on YourTube showing the modes of this bicycle taillight.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Happy Market in Fresno CA. USA on the morning of 03-05-22.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
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MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Bicycle taillight with multiple modes
LAMP TYPE: 5mm red LED
No. OF LAMPS: 5
BEAM TYPE: Medium spot
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/mode change/off
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: LEDs behind a prismatic dome
BATTERY: 2x AA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Weather-resistant at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ���EL CONEJITO DE PASCUA CON UN CEPILLO DE DIENTES QUE CAY� EN UN HIGI�NICO DE LOS, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: Seatpost bracket
SIZE: 75.20mm L x 44.50mm W x 32.70mm D
WEIGHT: 62.40g (2.20 oz.) incl. batteries & seatpost bracket
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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