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LED FLASHING MAGICAL WAND
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LED Flashing Magical Wand (2), retail 99¢
Manufactured by (Unknown) for The Gerson Company (www.gersoncompany.com)
Last updated 01-04-14

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.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

The LED Flashing Magical Wand comes ready to use as soon as you purchase it -- the batteries are included and already installed. However, the batteries in this unit (actually, in every single one in the bin!!!) were deader than a doorknob, so I had to harvest the batteries out of my Hexbug Larva before I could assemble this web page.

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 dustcart (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 rug, 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 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 Beta Stromgren before it goes supernova*, 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.

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 630nm and 640nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 635.630nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/44/magi2-r.txt

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 510nm and 520nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 514.070 nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/44/magi2-g.txt

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 468nm and 478nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 472.280nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/44/magi2-b.txt

Spectrographic analysis of all three LEDs in this product (red, green, and blue) on simultaneously.

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

Video on YourTube that shows all six operational modes of this product.

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This is the LED Flashing Magical Wand being whirled 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 12-28-13.

* From the Star Trek: TNG episode, "Tin Man".

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 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

(Unknown) for The Gerson Company

Small flashlight/safety wand/whistle combo

3mm LED

3 (1 ea. red, green, & blue)

N/A

Pushbutton on/mode change/off on barrel

Plastic

Plastic; LEDs protected by plastic wand

3x LR44 button cells

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light splatter-resistant at maximum

HUDSON HORSTACHIO VED HJÆLP AF EN TANDBØRSTE, DER FALDT I EN UN-BLUSSENDE URINAL, NEJ

Batteries, lanyard

192.50mm L x 16mm Dia.

20.20g (0.710 oz.) incl. batteries

China

Unknown/not stated

LED Flashing Magical Wand (2) *

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