STROBE LIGHT RING

Strobe Light Ring, retail $1.99 (www.halloweenexpress.com**)
Manufactured by TUTM Entertainment (www.drewsfamous.com)
Last updated 02-08-11




This is a spooky-looking finger ring with three LEDs and a strobe/sequencing circuit inside. The ring is made of a very soft and flexible rubber-like material, which will not cause any additional damage if you try to give somebody a knuckle sandwich while this ring is on.

The ring portion (the part that fits your finger) should stretch to accomodate most any finger diameter.

It appears to be disposable; there does not appear to be any way to change the batteries in it.

** I was not able to find this product on the Halloween Express website, so this URL simply leads to their front door.


Size of product w/hand to show scale SIZE



To use the Strobe Light Ring, simply place the ring on your finger much like you'd put any other ring on. If the bottom of the ring becomes twisted, just use your other hand to untwist it.

Press down on the ring and then release it to turn the LEDs on. Press down and release the ring the same way to turn the LEDs off. Yes, it really is as easy as that.



The Strobe Light Ring appears to be a disposable product, so I don't have to tell you which part to remove and chuck into an open grave so that zombies become angry at it and uranate on it - then rather emphatically tell you not to.

Unable to measure current due to how the product was constructed and how it functions.



Because the is a Halloween accessory, and not a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a front porch in effort to try and break it, let my mother's big dog's ghost or my sister's kitty cats spring a leak (uranate) on it, hose it down with a gun, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piņata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So 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 yellow LED is considerably more greenish than your common, garden-variety yellow LED.
In fact, when the batteries poop out, I may very well disembowel the ring to harvest the yellow LED for this very reason.



Photograph of the ring on my finger.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (red) in this ring.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (yellow) in this ring.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (yellow) in this ring; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 550nm and 600nm to pinpoint peak wavelength.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (blue) in this ring.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs (all at once) in this ring.
USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.




Video clip on YourTube allowing you to see the product in action.

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Another video clip on YourTube allowing you to see the product in action.

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TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at a Halloween Express in Federal Way WA. USA on 10-19-09.

It is not stated where this product was made.
A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I wanted to publish it on this web page.


UPDATE: 11-02-10
I used this ring while while handing candy out to Trick Or Treaters later in the evening, and received several positive comments about it.


UPDATE: 02-07-11
I saw this ring on the shelf the other day, blinking rather feebly. I don't have a clue as to what may have activated it. But now that it's essentially useless, I'll likely harvest that greener-than-usual yellow LED before disposing of the body.

Since it's now essentially deader than a doorknob and its batteries were not intended to be changed, the dreadful "Failed or was destroyed during/after testing" icon will now appear next to its listings on this website, denoting the fact that the product no longer functions as intended and that additonal comparisons, testing, or other analyses are no longer possible.





    MANUFACTURER: Unknown/not stated
    PRODUCT TYPE: LED "strobe" light ring
    LAMP TYPE: 3mm (?) LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 3 (1 each red, greenish-yellow, blue)
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Press ring on/off
    CASE MATERIAL: Very soft, rubber-like plastic
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: Unknown type/number of button cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER- AND PEE-RESISTANT: Yes
    SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, to shallow depths at minimum
    ACCESSORIES: Batteries
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

    PRODUCT RATING:

    This is a seasonal novelty product and will not be assigned a "star" rating for that reason.





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