WATER LIGHTS™ SUBMERSIBLE COLOR- CHANGING LED LIGHT
Water Lights™ Submersible Color-Changing LED Light, retail $2.99 (www.partycity.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown) for The Gerson Company
Last updated 10-17-12
The Water Lights™ Submersible Color-Changing LED Light is a novelty product that contains a bicolor LED (orange + ultraviolet) that do this "color wash" effect where both colors alternate while smoothly fading in & out.
It is contained within a rather beefy plastic housing that isn't just water-resistant, it's submersible to depths of at least several feet. In fact, it was specifically designed to go in water to illuminate arrangements and spooky displays.
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The Water Lights™ Submersible Color-Changing LED Light is ready to go right out of the pack; batteries are included and already installed.
Hold the product in one hand in such a manner that you can use the other to tighten the base -- you may need to be a bit firm here (actually, you may have to reef on it pretty good!!!). When the base has been tightened sufficiently, the unit will turn on.
Partially unscrew the base (by turning it counterclockwise {or "anticlockwise" if you prefer}) to neutralise it (turn it off).
To change the batteries, hold the unit so that the top half is in one hand and the bottom (and the top half is facing at least mainly up), and then unscrew it so that the two halves come apart.
Carry the upper half to a decrepid old wooden building with boarded-up windows, and throw it through the busted open transom so that the ghosts inhabiting the structure become all pissed off at it, kick it into the fireplace, throw in a Duralog, and light that sucker...O WAIT!!! THAT'S THE "GOOD" PART!!! So just set it aside instead.
Tip the used CR2032 cells out of the lower half and into your hand, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Insert two new CR2032 cells into the lower half, orienting them so that they go in with their flat-ends (+) positives facing the bottom.
Screw on the upper half (but not so firmly that the unit turns on), and be dome with it.
Aren't you glad you didn't huck that upper half of the unit into the old boarded-up house with all of those uranated (ticked off) ghosts now?
Unable to measure current usage due to how the product was constructed.
Because this is a novelty item and not a flashlight, the punishments I bestow upon flashlights will not be bestowed upon the Water Lights™ Submersible Color-Changing LED Light. 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 who's sole purpose in life is to be a flashlight.
All of the "smarts" appear to be contained within the LED itself; when I had it opened so that I could write the battery change procedure, I noted right away that there was no circuitry of any type visible on either side of the PC board that it was mounted to.
Photograph of the beam terminus (orange LED) on the test target at 12".
Photograph of the beam terminus (violet LED) on the test target at 12".
Spectrographic analysis of the orange LED in this product.
That "hump" at approx. 390nm in the ultraviolet-A is from the UV LED, and was unavoidable due to how this product functions.
Spectrographic analysis of the orange LED in this product; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 600nm and 630nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 614.080nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the UV LED in this product.
That large "hump" at approx. 615nm in the orange is from the orange LED, and was unavoidable due to how this product functions.
Spectrographic analysis of the UV LED in this product; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 380nm and 420nm to pinpoint peak wavelength which is 393.199nm.
Video that shows nothing more than my Water Lights™ Submersible Color-Changing LED Light changing colors.
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This video on YourTube shows me tossing the Water Lights™ Submersible Color-Changing LED Light into the cistern (toliet tank) simply to show that it was designed to be submersible.
I chose the cistern here because it was the only source of water I have ready access to; our only vase has weeds rooting in it -- the water is turbid and smells like dog {vulgar slang term for caca, four letters, begins with "s" and ends with "t", rhymes with "pit"} so you see why I didn't want to test this light there and then have to reach into the stinky water to retrieve the product at the conclusion of my test.
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TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Party City store in Federal Way WA. USA on 09-30-12.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Submersible decorative light
LAMP TYPE: 5mm bicolor LED
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Twist base on/off
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: Plastic; LED protected by plastic dome
BATTERY: 2x CR2032 lithium coin cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Yes
SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, to several feet at minimum
ACCESSORIES: Batteries
SIZE: 29mm Dia. x 24mm H
WEIGHT: 12.90g (0.450 oz.) with batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/TBA
PRODUCT RATING:
This is a seasonal novelty product and will not be assigned a "star" rating for that reason.
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). When the base has been tightened sufficiently, the unit will turn on.
