PATRIOTIC FLASHING BRACELET



Patriotic Flashing Bracelet, retail $2.99 http://www.partycity.com...
Manufactured by (Unknown) for DM Merchandising (www.247dm.com)
Last updated 04-29-13





This is a flashing plastic bracelet, designed to be used on or near Independence Day (July 04) in the United States.


It features red, white, and blue stars, three shiny "beads" between each star, and has a super-bright red LED inside of each red star.


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Put the Patriotic Flashing Bracelet on your wrist as you would put on any other bracelet; as soon as you connect both ends of the 'clasp' together, the red stars will begin blinking.

Removing the bracelet will automatically neutralise it.



To change the batteries in your Patriotic Flashing Bracelet, unscrew the two halves of the grey thing, smuggle the piece with the large hole in it onto the barge carrying fireworks for the big 4th of July fireworks show, drop it into the launching tube for the large silver salute firework, and discreetly disembark from the barge (being absolutely, positively, 100% certain that nobody saw you)...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead!!!

Tip the three used LR41 button cells from the part of the grey thing that the bracelet is attached to, and dump them into the garbage can (or the battery recycling box if your community has a battery reclamation program in place.
Do not use your foot to push them under the Lazy-Boy where the cat might find & eat them, do not attempt to flush them down the loo, and for God sakes please do not throw them over the side of a dock where they might hit a flounder on the way down to the sea bottom.

Insert three new LR41 button cells into the grey thing, orienting them so that their button-ends (-) negatives all go in first, screw that part with the hole in it firmly back in place, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad you didn't sneak onto a pyrotechnics barge and drop that other grey piece into a rather largew firework launching tube now?

Unable to measure current usage due to how the product functions.



The Patriotic Flashing Bracelet is reasonably durable - at least to the point where it won't just fall apart or go out during normal use. This product is intended specifically to be used on your wrist, not abused or manhandled like a regular flashlight. So I won't try to slam it against a steel rod, smack it against the concrete floor of a patio, or flush it down the can. I did throw it to the floor a few times, and did not damage it in any way I can detect.



Photograph of the bracelet on my arm.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this bracelet.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this bracelet; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 625nm and 635nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 630.330nm.

The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/42/pfb.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.



This video shows the Patriotic Flashing Bracelet doing what it was designed to do -- blink of course!

O boy, blinking lights!
So thrilling!!
So heart-pounding!!!"
Actually, it kinda makes you want to "kik" "uh" "telafoan" "oph" "thuh" "wal" "ahndd" "thenn""pruhseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "itz" "ownne" "handssett" doesn't it?

This video is approximately 68.0456447522 megabytes (68,733,840 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware. It will take no less than two hundred ninety eight minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.



TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Party City store in Federal Way WA. USA on 04-22-13 {or "2013 22 Mar.", or even "Mar. 22, Twenty Stick-Boobs" if you prefer}.


UPDATE: 00-00-00



PROS:
Very patriotic color indeed



NEUTRAL:



CONS:
Batteries it uses could be locally expen$ive and/or difficult to locate in a pinch
Not all that water-resistant


    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: Patriotic flashing bracelet
    LAMP TYPE: LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 3
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Magnetic bracelet closure on/off
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: 3x LR41 button cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistant
    SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡EL CONEJITO DE PASCUA QUE SE CEPILLA LOS DIENTES CON UN CEPILLO DE DIENTES QUE CAYÓ EN EL HIGIÉNICO, NO!!!
    ACCESSORIES: 3x LR41 button cells (already installed)
    SIZE: 209mm in circumfrence
    WEIGHT: 10.50g (0.370 oz.) incl. batteries
    COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

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