Net Red Sunset Light, retail $6.00 (wish.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 02-11-22
The Net Red Sunset Light (hereinafter, probably just called a, "Sunset Lamp") is a rather interesting piece of kit.
It uses a single high-power RGB (Red/Green/Blue) LED behind a Fresnel lens to project a very wide, circular swqpot of light with a well-defined perimeter onto your wall or ceiling.
It doesn't just project a spot of white light like a traditional lamp; no, the Sunset Lamp produces a spot of light that can change color *AND* intensity. All of the functions of this lamp are accessible from a handy-dandy remote control.
The Sunset Lamp does not use batteries; it derives all of the power it requires from either a USB port on your computer or a "wall wart" USB power supply.
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To use the Sunset Lamp, assemble it first.
The lamp arrives in three distinct pieces: the illuminator head, a steel rod, and a puck-shaped base; a small screw-in component is also furnished.
Start by screwing in the unfinished metal thing into the puck-shaped base, orienting it so the component protrudes from the upper surface of the lamp's base.
Now, screw the metal rod firmly onto the metal thing that you just screwed in. Be certain that the two pieces are screwed together firmly so as to eliminate any possibility of wobbling.
Press the "ball" on the illuminator head into the "socket" on the end of the metal rod; press in on it firmly until it snaps into place.
Connect the larger end of the USB power cable into any free female USB receptacle on your Pee-Cee or Mac computer or into a line-powered USB "wall wart" power supply/charger, and plug the smaller end into the USB-C receptacle on the lower right of the lamp's illuminator head (as the lamp is facing away from you).
If you did this correctly, the lamp should be flashing rapidly through its primary colors at maximum intensity.
The instructional materials did not elaborate on how to actually ***USE*** the lamp, so I'm pretty much flying by the seat of my pants here.
Using the remote controller (pointing it in the general direction of the lamp), press & release the red button on the upper right of the remote labelled, "ON". Press and release the button to its immediate left to neutralise the lamp.
The two white buttons near the upper left of the remote are the dimmer buttons. Contrary to intuition, the leftmost button brightens the lamp, and the rightmost one dims it.
Press and release any of the colored buttons to change the color of the lamp's light to at least somewhat jibe with the color of the button that you pressed.
On the righthand side of the of the remote, there are six buttons. In order, from top to bottom, are:
ON (turns the product on) W (turns the product's LED to a rather poor imitation of "white") FLASH (flashes the LED at quasi-random colors at a flash rate of approx. 0.75Hz) STROBE (slowly fades through all of the product's colors) FADE (Same as above) SMOOTH (flashes the LED at quasi-random colors at a flash rate of approx. 0.75Hz)
You will note that the labelled function of two of the buttons don't match the effect they are labelled to generate.
This product does not use batteries of any type, so I don't have to tell you which part to remove, tape to a space shuttle being prepped for launch, and then rather emphtically tell you not to.
The battery in the remote control WILL require changing from time to time.
However, I have not yet figured out how to access that battery.
In fact, my failed attempts to remove the battery tray may have irrepairably damaged it.
To provide power for the lamp itself, plug the large end of the USB power cable into any free USB port on your PC or Mac computer, and plug the smaller end into the USB-C receptacle on the lower right of the lamp's illuminator head (as the lamp is facing away from you).
This lamp is meant to be used as a lamp indoors or in a covered area outdoors, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, trashed, bashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, viciously chuck it at one of those wall-mounted porcelain uranators to see if it becomes broken (the lamp, not the uranator!), try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, 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, 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 analyses, launch it into the upper atmosphere of Gamalon V* so that chairman Sonji gets all bent out of shape about it, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.
Photograph of the lamp's face, showing the Fresnel lens.
Photograph of the back of lamp's face, showing a cut-out smiley face.
Beam terminus photograph on a wall at ~2 feet; displaying "white".
Photograph of the NIR radiation from the remote.
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs (displaying "white") in this lamp.
Peak wavelengths are: 456.100nm (blue), 529.940nm (green) and 634.640nm (red).
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at sunset.txt
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.
Video on YourTube showing the Net Red Sunset Light's modes.
The music that you hear is from the Commodore 64 computer 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 piddled off or makes your ears bleed. ;-)
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on the Wish.com website on 01-17-22 and was received on 02-04-22.
* From the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Final Mission".
** Gay = bright and lively, NOT homosexual!!!
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Eye-pleasing design
Very colorful and gay**
Has a handy-dandy remote control
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CONS:
Some of the buttons on the remote are mislabelled and redundant
The lamp's rendition of "white" is rather poor
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Small household lamp w/ remote control
LAMP TYPE: High-power RGB LED
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: Very wide, circular spot
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A (uses a Fresnel lens)
SWITCH TYPE: N/A (uses remote ctrl. to turn on/off)
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic and metal
BEZEL: LED recessed behind a plastic Fresnel lens
BATTERY: 1x CR2025 lithium coin cell (for remote)
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light sprinkle-resistance at max
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡EL CONEJITO DE PASCUA CEPILLARSE SUS DIENTES CON UN CEPILLO DE DIENTES QUE CAYÓ EN EL HIGIÉNICO, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: USB power cable, remote control, battery for remote
SIZE: 89.30mm Dia. x 15.90mm T (base); 79.60mm Dia. x 21.50mm D (illuminator), 228.10mm T
WEIGHT: 84.40g (2.98 oz.)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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