LED Christmas Light Bulb Headband, retail $3.99 (Not found on the Foods Co website)
Manufactured by (Unknown/not stated)
Last updated 11-17-21
This is a novelty headband designed to look like a string of Christmas light bulbs.
It has eight phosphor white LEDs (which I was able to determine not spectrographically as would normally be the case, but by observing an LED directly through a small gap in the colored, "bulb-shaped" covering), and can be set to operate in any of six modes:
1: Combination mode where the lights cycle through all of their effects
2: Fast flash (almost stroboscopic)
3: Medium speed unison flash
4: Slow 2x flash unison blink mode
5: Slightly faster 3x flash unison blink mode
6: All lamps steady-on
* Although it is marked as being $5.99 on the packaging materials, I got it for $3.99 because they were on pre-holiday sale.
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Remove the little clear plastic tab from the rectangular battery box first.
Press & release the button on the battery box once to initiate combination mode where the lights cycle through all of their effects.
Press & release the button again to initiate fast flash (almost stroboscopic).
Press & release the button again to turn on medium speed unison flash.
Press & release the button again to turn on slow 2x flash unison blink mode.
Press & release the button again to turn on slightly faster 3x flash unison blink mode.
Press & release the button again to turn on all lamps steady-on.
Finally, press & release the button again to turn the headband off.
Just like it reads on the backs of many shampoddy bottles, "lather, rinse, repeat".
In other words, pressing & releasing the button an eighth time initiates combination mode.
To change the batteries, unscrew & remove the small phillips screw from the battery cover located on that small green rectangular box on the headband's back, and set the tiny screw aside where you won't lose it or vaccum it up (the screw is small, but considerably larger than I expected it to be).
Remove the battery door, gently place it on the floor, and kick it under that Christmas tree you're always forgetting to water...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.
Remove the two used cells from the battery compartment (simply tip the battery box opening-down into the palm of your hand and the cells should just fall right out), and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Insert two new CR1220 cells into the compartment, orienting them button-side (-) negative down.
Place the battery door back on, and screw in that screw.
Screw it in firmly, but not too tightly, or else you'll strip the threads in the screw hole.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick the battery door underneath that dead, dead Christmas tree now?
Because this is a holiday-themed (Christmas, in this case) novelty item and not a flashlight meant to be thrashed, trashed, and abused, I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the toylet bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, viciously chuck it at one of those wall-mounted porcelain uranators to see if it explodes (the headband, not the whizzer), use a claw hammer in order to 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, a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that flashlights may have inflicted upon them.
The LED headband is not water-resistant or submersible, therefore, water, milk, diet vanilla Pepsi, cold (or hot) coffee, micturition (pee), ice cold fizzy root beer, disposable douches, disposable enemas, tranny fluid, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, brake fluid, motor oil, or other liquids could get inside. So please try not to drop it in creeks, rivers, ponds, lakes, oceansides, docksides, snowbanks, puddles of blue whale pee, tall cold glasses (or short lukewarm glasses) of milk, slush piles, mud puddles, tubs, root beer floats, toilet bowls, cisterns, sinks, cups of coffee (hot *OR* cold), fishtanks, dog water dishes, old yucky wet mops, wall-mounted porcelain uranators, leaky water heaters, busted garden hoses, puddles of antifreeze, brake fluid, tranny fluid, gasoline, or other places where water or water-like liquids might be found. And you'll probably want to cover it up or otherwise get rid of it (such as by putting it in a very large pocket or in a bag) if you need to carry it in rainy or snowy weather.
If it fell in water and you suspect it got flooded, dump out the water if necessary, and set it in a warm dry place for a day or so just to be sure it's completely dry inside before you use it again.
If it fell into seawater, got thrown into a glass of milk, if it fell in a root beer float, if it fell into a bowl of "soft-serv" ice cream, if somebody squirted a Massengill brand post-menstrual disposable douche or a Fleet brand disposable enema at it (and hit it with the douche or the enema), or if somebody or something pee'd on it, rinse it out with fresh water before setting it out to dry. You don't want your headband to smell like seaweed, sour milk, flowers, fresh butts, or rotten piss when you go to use it next. Besides, salt (from seawater, disposable douches, disposable enemas, or uranation), lactic acid (from moo juice), glycerol (from antifreeze), or sugar (from root beer & ice cream) can't be very good for the insides.
Steady on mode really is "steady on" -- there is no evidence that the LEDs rapidly strobe (indicative of PWM {Pulse Width Modulation}); so the batteries in this mode aren't being preserved as they are in products that employ PWM.
The headband where it belongs -- on my head of course.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (red filter) in this headband.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at xhr.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (yellow filter) in this headband.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at xhy.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (green filter) in this headband.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at xhg.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (blue filter) in this headband.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at xhb.txt
In this brief video, you can see the modes of the LED Light Blub (Christmas) Headband; there is combo, fast flash, slow double-flash, faster triple-flash, and steady-on.
That music that you hear is the song, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
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.
The camera in this phone is rather crappy; the phone that I usually use (with the decent camera) has become lost. :-(
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at a Foods Co. store in Fresno CA. USA on the morning of 11-14-21.
** Gay = bright and lively, *NOT* homosexual!!!
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Quite colorful and gay**
Surprisingly bright
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
Feels a bit cheap -- but this is fairly common to many products of, "Hoo Phlung Pu" origin (this is by far what nocked the most stars off its rating!)
Seems to be a bit ill-fitting (too loose in this case)
MANUFACTURER: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT TYPE: Seasonal headband with LEDs
LAMP TYPE: Phosphor white LED
No. OF LAMPS: 4
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Momentary pushbutton on/mode change/off on battery box
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 2x CR1220 lithium coin cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: No
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡HOZAY FELECIANO UTILIZANDO UNA ESCUPIDERA NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: Batteries
SIZE: 203.2mm L x 209.5mm W
WEIGHT: Product will be weighed upon my return home
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
LED Christmas Light Bulb Headband *
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