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GLOW PURPLE FLASHLIGHT/
SAFETY WAND/FLASHER/WHISTLE
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Glow Purple Flashlight (White/Violet LEDs)/Safety Wand/Flasher/Whistle, retail $6.49 (www.lifegearcompany.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown) for Life+Gear (www.lifegearcompany.com)
Last updated 09-05-12

This is the Life+Gear Glow Purple Flashlight (White/Violet LEDs)/Safety Wand/Flasher/Whistle.

It comes in a plastic body, and has the following operational modes:

Flashlight.
Glow wand.
Both flashlight and glow wand simultaneously (at the same time).
Glow wand flashes.
Whistle

It has two rather bright 5mm LEDs, and feeds those LEDs from three LR44 (aka. AG-13) button cells.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

The Glow Purple Flashlight (White/Violet LEDs)/Safety Wand/Flasher/Whistle comes ready to use as soon as you purchase it -- the batteries are included and already installed.

On the barrel near the front of the light, there is a rubbery black button.

Press it until it clicks and then release it to turn the unit on in "flashlight" mode.
Do the same thing to have both the flashlight and the glow wand on at the same time. Do the same thing again to turn the flashlight part off but leave the glow wand on.
Do the same thing again to cause the glow wand to blink at a rate of approx. 1.25Hz (approx. 5 flashes every 4 seconds).
Finally, do the same thing one last time to turn the unit completely off.

Just like it reads on the backs of many shampoo (or shampotty) bottles, "lather, rinse, repeat".
In other words, pressing & releasing the black button starts the cycle anew with the white LED flashlight portion of this product coming on.

To use the whistle, just take the protective cap off the end of the wand, place the end of the wand into your mouth (DON'T DEEP-THROAT THE F****R FOR CHRIST SAKES!!! IT ISN'T A DICK!!! Just put it in your mouth approx. 1" (~25.40-mm) and exhale sharply into it!!!)

Place the cap back on when you are finished with the whistle; this cap helps keep things like dust rabbits, mud, donkey pee, and other unwanted materials out of there.

To change the batteries in the "Glow Purple" Glow Stick/Flashlight/Whistle/Flasher, unscrew the wand from the body, walk over to the dustbin (garbage can), drop the wand in, take the bin liner (garbage bag) to the outside wheelie bin (wheeled garbage can), drop it in that one, and wait for garbage day so that the dustman (garbage man) dumps the wheelie bin into his dust lorry (garbage truck) and drives off...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Tip the "guts" out of the barrel and into your hand, and set the now-empty barrel aside as well.

Using the point of a knife or similar instrument, pry one of the cells out of the chamber; the other two should come out without tools. I attempted to use a fingernail for this task on this one, and promptly busted it (the fingernail - not the light!!!) - that's why I recommend using a knife or similar instrument. "Lesson learned" as they say.

Dispose of or recycle the used-up cells as you see fit. Do not flush them down the commode, and for God sakes, please do not throw them into a trout-filled stream.

Insert three new L1154 (or AG-13) button cells into the chamber, orienting them so that their flat-ends (+) positives face the (+) legend printed in the bottom of the chamber.

Look at each LED, and note which one of them has a yellowish-white material inside. Slide the "guts" back into the barrel so that the LED with the yellowish-white material inside goes in first, and so that the side with the circuit board on it faces the black rubbery button on the barrel.

If you cannot tell which LED is which, press the white button near the center of the circuit board so that the white LED turns on - slide the "guts" into the barrel so that the white LED goes in first - you can then use the button to turn the product off at this point.

Screw the wand back on; snugly but not too tightly, and be done with it. Aren't you glad that you didn't throw that wand in the garbage now?

Unable to measure current use due to how the product was constructed.

The "Glow Purple" Glow Stick/Flashlight/Whistle/Flasher is not intended to be used as a flashlight that is needed frequently and bashed, trashed, thrashed, and abused. So I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar term for caca}bowl or the cistern, run over it with a 450lb electric wheelchair, swing it against the concrete floor of a front porch, use a medium claw hammer to bash it open in order 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 (located at Piñata Central), a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or a pack-of-cards-sized instrument that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, shoot it into the upper atmosphere of Ventax II*, or inflict upon it punishments that a flashlight in a metal or sturdier plastic body may have inflicted upon it.

The "Glow Purple" Glow Stick/Flashlight/Whistle/Flasher is very lightly splatter- and weather-resistant, but it is not submersible. It failed "The Suction Test" a bit - not a whole lot of air was admitted, but it *DID* leak. If it fell in water and you suspect it got flooded (because you didn't fish it out right away), remove the wand and the insides, take the batteries out, dump the water out of the wand and body if necessary, and set the parts 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 into a root beer float, if it got nocked 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), if it got kicked under a leaky car radiator, or if somebody or something got "pist off" at it and subsequently "pyst" on it

, rinse the parts out with fresh water before setting them out to dry. You don't want your "Glow Purple" Glow Stick/Flashlight/Whistle/Flasher to smell like seaweed, sour milk, flowers, fresh butts, or rotten pee 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 flasher circuit or the insides of the barrel. Besides, you don't want pee on the part that you put in your mouth.

This evaluation look an awful lot like the one I made for the Life+Gear Glow Green Lightstick/Whistle?
Though you'd say so.
That's because they vary only in LED color, so I could use its web page as a template for this one.

Beam photograph (flashlight mode) on the test target at 12".
Measures 47,900mcd on an Amprobe LM631A light meter.

Beam photograph (glow wand's LED) on the test target at 12".

Beam photograph (flashlight mode) on a wall at ~10 feet.

Photograph of the violet LED "glowstick".

Photograph of the flashlight & violet LED "glowstick" on simultaneously (at the same time).

Spectrographic analysis of the LED (flashlight mode) in this product.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED (flashlight mode) in this product; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 430nm and 470nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 452.500nm.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED (glowstick mode) in this product.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED (glowstick mode) in this product; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 390nm and 430nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 407.510nm.

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

ProMetric analysis

Beam cross-sectional analysis (flashlight mode).
Image made using the ProMetric System by Radiant Imaging.

WAVE sound file (.wav extension) allowing you to hear the whistle.
This sound file is 30,971 bytes in length.

This file is rather small; I only gave a brief blast to
the whistle so that I would not disturb the neighbours.
But it should allow you to hear what it sounds like.

TEST NOTES:
Test unit of this (plus a bunch of other products) was sent by a website fan on the US east coast, and was received on 08-31-12 (or "31 Aug. 2012" or even "Aug 31, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer).

* From the Star Trek: TNG episode, "Devil's Due".

UPDATE: 00-00-00

PROS:
Reasonably bright for a one-banger that doesn't focus its LED
Appears to be at least reasonably durable at minimum
Water-resistant -- even submersible to shallow depths for a very brief time

CONS:
Uses batteries that may be locally expen$ive and/or diffult to locate in an emergency

Unknown for Life+Gear

Small flashlight/safety wand/whistle combo

5mm LED

2 (1 ea. white and violet)

Narrow/medium spot

Pushbutton on/mode change/off on barrel

Plastic

Plastic; LED & reflector protected by plastic window

3x LR44 button cells

Unknown/unable to measure

Yes

Yes; to shallow depths for a very short period of time anyway

Batteries, lanyard

190.35mm L x 20.5mm Dia.

33.30g (1.170 oz.)

China

Lifetime (except batteries & bulbs)

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