LED FLASHING MAGICAL WAND
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LED Flashing Magical Wand, retail $4.99
Manufactured by (Unknown) for The Gerson Company (www.gersoncompany.com)
Last updated 10-21-12
This is the LED Flashing Magical Wand. It has six modes (fast sequential strobe, color wash, "white", green blink, red blink, and blue blink) and can make you the life of any party you happen to go to.
The wand isn't just translucent (a milky white color); no, it also has these "sparklies" in it that give it a magical appearance to it whether the unit is on or off!!!
It has three rather bright 3mm LEDs (one each red, green, and blue), and feeds those LEDs from three LR44 (aka. AG-13) button cells.
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The LED Flashing Magical Wand 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 orange button.
Press it and then release it to turn the unit on in "fast sequential strobe" mode.
Do the same thing to have the wand perform a "color wash".
Do the same thing again to turn the wand on so all three LEDs are continuously illuminated.
Do the same thing again to cause the glow wand to blink its green LED at at a rate of approx. 5Hz (approx. 5 flashes per second).
Do the same thing again to cause the glow wand to blink its red LED at at a rate of approx. 5Hz (approx. 5 flashes per second).
Do the same thing again to cause the glow wand to blink its blue LED at at a rate of approx. 5Hz (approx. 5 flashes per second).
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 orange button starts the cycle anew; turning the unit on in "fast strobe" mode.
To change the batteries in the LED Flashing Magical Wand, unscrew & remove the small phillips screw from the body located just to the front of the tail ring, remove the battery door, walk over to the dustbin (garbage can), drop the battery door & screw 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 THOSE!!! So just set them aside instead.
Using the point of a knife or similar instrument, pry one of the cells out of the battery chamber; the other two should come out without tools. Alternately, you may tap the batteries out and into your hand without the need for tools of any type.
Dispose of or recycle the used-up cells as you see fit. Do not place them on the floor and use your foot to push them under the carpet, do not flush them down the water closet, and for God sakes, please do not throw them into a trout-filled stream.
Insert three new LR44 (or AG-13) button cells into the chamber, orienting them so that their flat-ends (+) positives face the spring in the chamber.
Place the battery door back on, screw in that screw you removed earlier, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad that you didn't throw that battery door & tiny screw in the garbage now?
Unable to measure current use due to how the product was constructed.
The LED Flashing Magical Wand is an eye-catching thing to use at parties & raves, not a flashlight that is intended to be 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, huck it at one of those wall-mounted porcelain uranators to see if it explodes (the LED Flashing Magical Wand, not the uranator!), use a medium claw hammer to bash it open in order to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata (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), a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or a pack-of-cards-sized instrument that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata 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 LED Flashing Magical Wand is very lightly splatter-resistant, but it is not submersible. It failed "The Suction Test" rather miserably. If it fell into water, remove the batteries, 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 LED Flashing Magical Wand 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.
Photograph of the unit illuminated.
Photograph of the unit being waved around in "strobe" mode.
Another photograph of the unit being waved around in "strobe" mode.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this product.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this product; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 620nm and 650nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 634.442nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LED in this product.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LED in this product; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 500nm and 530nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 517.126 nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this product.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in this product; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 480nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 460.007nm.
Spectrographic analysis of all three LEDs in this product (red, green, and blue) on simultaneously.
Video on YourTube that shows all six operational modes of this product.
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This is the LED Flashing Magical Wand being swung around on its lanyard in very subdued lighting conditions.
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TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Party City store in Federal Way WA. USA on 10-17-12.
* From the Star Trek: TNG episode, "Devil's Due".
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Very unique product!
Very eye-catching (to borrow phrase, it's "eye candy")
Can be swung around on its lanyard to create some gorgeous effects
NEUTRAL:
Has a bit of a "chintzy" (cheap) feel to it -- but then what do you expect for $1.99?
CONS:
Uses batteries that may be locally expen$ive and/or diffult to locate in an emergency
Requires a small phillips screwdriver for battery change
MANUFACTURER: (Unknown) for The Gerson Company
PRODUCT TYPE: Small flashlight/safety wand/whistle combo
LAMP TYPE: 3mm LED
No. OF LAMPS: 3 (1 ea. red, green, & blue)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/mode change/off on barrel
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: Plastic; LEDs protected by plastic wand
BATTERY: 3x LR44 button cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistant at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: HUDSON HORSTACHIO VED HJELP AV EN SKITNE TANNBØRSTE, IKKE!
ACCESSORIES: Batteries, lanyard
SIZE: 192.50mm L x 16mm Dia.
WEIGHT: 20.20g (0.710 oz.)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
LED Flashing Magical Wand *
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