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Don Bruder
- Jan 1, 1970
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Picked up a pair of those two for 5 bucks shake lights Walgreen's is
pushing this Xmas.
Complete box copy from mine (typos and "Engrish" *ALL* the box's fault!
- I ain't makin' this stuff up, folks - I don't need to - it's printed
right there in black and white two feet in front of my face!!! )
The Front:
The New Procuct
Come Into The Market
Environment-protective
Torch For 21st Century
Rotate the box vertically 1/4 turn to find:
Features:
1 Only shake it to forward and backward while also use. So as to Make it
Generating to light up for brightness.
2. its switch system is based on advance magnetic induction
technologies. So it's long in service life and reliable in performance.
(I guess the second sentence of #2 isn't *TOO* bad...)
Advantages:
1. a tocrh is used for emergency lighting purpose. However, the
traditional battery-supplied torch may cause you a big distress because
battery will becoming ineffective and producing poliution if torch is
leaving idle for long time. The chargable torch is has problem power
leakage; or it will help you remembering to charge only at time of
needingfulness. This innovative torch is to the breakthrough in solution
to wastage and inconvenient.
2. Being self-supplying, it will serve you long and well.
Caution:
1 Never keeping it closely with the household appliances needing
magnetism from to be shielded.
2. We will not taking the any responsibility for losings and harmful
causes or any injuriousness by improper use from the result.
Next two sides repeat the same things.
The "Engrish" was almost worth the price of the darn things all by
itself
On the "It's five bucks, and I've got another one... Who cares if I
screw it up?" theory, I unscrewed the end to find that the innards are
encased in a second clearer plastic tube - a 5/8" long by 9/16" diameter
cylindrical magnet (*QUITE* impressively potent - I'd rate it pretty
close to the supermagnets you'd find in hard drives in the "pull a
screwdriver off it" test) inside a 1 inch long by about 11/16" coil that
appears to be "flat-wound" with what looks like 4-5 layers of
close-spaced #30 or so wire - hair-fine - I'm talking one of *MY* hairs
fine, and that's *REALLY* fine, a small circuit board with 4 1N400x type
diodes, but in the one I've opened, they're all turned so that I can't
see the last digit - Not that it matters much for the application) a
quarter-watt sized carbon-film resistor (Brown Gray Black Gold, 5 volt
..0047F electorlytic capacitor, white LED, plus two 2032 lithium coin
cells and a simple "move the slider to mash this springy bit of brass
against this other not-so-springy bit of brass" switch.
Havent' yet gotten around to fully deciphering the circuit board, but it
looks pretty simple - Diodes make a full wave bride, charging the cap
and batteries (2032s are rechargable???), switch connects LED through
resistor to cap/batteries, light comes out the end.
One of the *VERY* first things that's going to have to happen to make
this thing more than just a cutesy toy is spray-painting the body
black... With it clear, the backscatter from the bottom of the LED is
blinding. As long as it's kept "wrapped up", it actually puts out a
decent amount of light, but I'm already plotting and planning the "how"
of perhaps ripping the power section out of it and installing it in one
of the little yellow 6-LED "Streamlight" units I've got laying around -
Have to see just exactly what kind up "oomph" it can put out...
Anybody hacked one of these things in an interesting fashion yet?
pushing this Xmas.
Complete box copy from mine (typos and "Engrish" *ALL* the box's fault!
- I ain't makin' this stuff up, folks - I don't need to - it's printed
right there in black and white two feet in front of my face!!! )
The Front:
The New Procuct
Come Into The Market
Environment-protective
Torch For 21st Century
Rotate the box vertically 1/4 turn to find:
Features:
1 Only shake it to forward and backward while also use. So as to Make it
Generating to light up for brightness.
2. its switch system is based on advance magnetic induction
technologies. So it's long in service life and reliable in performance.
(I guess the second sentence of #2 isn't *TOO* bad...)
Advantages:
1. a tocrh is used for emergency lighting purpose. However, the
traditional battery-supplied torch may cause you a big distress because
battery will becoming ineffective and producing poliution if torch is
leaving idle for long time. The chargable torch is has problem power
leakage; or it will help you remembering to charge only at time of
needingfulness. This innovative torch is to the breakthrough in solution
to wastage and inconvenient.
2. Being self-supplying, it will serve you long and well.
Caution:
1 Never keeping it closely with the household appliances needing
magnetism from to be shielded.
2. We will not taking the any responsibility for losings and harmful
causes or any injuriousness by improper use from the result.
Next two sides repeat the same things.
The "Engrish" was almost worth the price of the darn things all by
itself
On the "It's five bucks, and I've got another one... Who cares if I
screw it up?" theory, I unscrewed the end to find that the innards are
encased in a second clearer plastic tube - a 5/8" long by 9/16" diameter
cylindrical magnet (*QUITE* impressively potent - I'd rate it pretty
close to the supermagnets you'd find in hard drives in the "pull a
screwdriver off it" test) inside a 1 inch long by about 11/16" coil that
appears to be "flat-wound" with what looks like 4-5 layers of
close-spaced #30 or so wire - hair-fine - I'm talking one of *MY* hairs
fine, and that's *REALLY* fine, a small circuit board with 4 1N400x type
diodes, but in the one I've opened, they're all turned so that I can't
see the last digit - Not that it matters much for the application) a
quarter-watt sized carbon-film resistor (Brown Gray Black Gold, 5 volt
..0047F electorlytic capacitor, white LED, plus two 2032 lithium coin
cells and a simple "move the slider to mash this springy bit of brass
against this other not-so-springy bit of brass" switch.
Havent' yet gotten around to fully deciphering the circuit board, but it
looks pretty simple - Diodes make a full wave bride, charging the cap
and batteries (2032s are rechargable???), switch connects LED through
resistor to cap/batteries, light comes out the end.
One of the *VERY* first things that's going to have to happen to make
this thing more than just a cutesy toy is spray-painting the body
black... With it clear, the backscatter from the bottom of the LED is
blinding. As long as it's kept "wrapped up", it actually puts out a
decent amount of light, but I'm already plotting and planning the "how"
of perhaps ripping the power section out of it and installing it in one
of the little yellow 6-LED "Streamlight" units I've got laying around -
Have to see just exactly what kind up "oomph" it can put out...
Anybody hacked one of these things in an interesting fashion yet?