FIBER OPTIC VIBRATING LIGHT
Fiber Optic Vibrating Light, retail $10.00 (www.thingsyouneverknew.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown) for Westminster
Last updated 11-25-14
This is a nice, inexpensive fiber optic lamp that uses three different color LEDs and three AAA cells instead of being line powered and using a hot incandescent light bulb.
It will look nice almost any place you put it; of course, it looks even nicer when it's on. 
The base is a shiny chrome-finished plastic, which contributes to how nice it looks even when off.
It also has a mode which causes the unit to vibrate, giving it a rotating effect that I've yet to encounter in a fiber optic lamp.
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To use the lamp, install batteries in it first (see directly below), and THEN you can go to town.
On the bottom of the lamp, there is a slide switch. Slide it to the "ON" position, set the lamp on a flat surface and a location relatively free of breeze, and enjoy it.
Slide the switch to the "VIBRATE" position and place the lamp in the included black plastic circular tray to watch the colors slowly rotate and "dance". The lamp actually has a motor with an off-center weighted shaft that causes the unit to physically vibrate and subsequently rotate.
To neutralise the lamp, slide the switch to the "OFF" position.
To change the batteries, turn the lamp upside-down, unscrew & remove the phillips screw holding the battery door on, and set it aside. Remove the battery door, gently place it on the ground, and kick it into the garden so the hungry, hungry praying mantids will think it's something yummy for their insect tummies and subsequently strike at it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead. 
If necessary, remove the used up old AAA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Insert three new AAA cells into the compartment, orienting them so their flat-ends (-) negatives face the springs for them in each chamber.
Place the battery door back on, insert & tighten that screw, and turn the lamp rightside-up.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door into the garden with all those hungry, hungry praying mantids now?
Here is what a praying mantis looks like.
I found this guy on the morning of 09-08-06 clinging to the basket of my scooter.
Unable to measure current usage due to how the lamp was constructed.
This lamp is meant to be used as a decorative lamp in a dry area, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the toilet bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open 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 scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout or with a handheld wand), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that flashlights may have inflicted upon them. Therefore, this section of the web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
The lamp is rather sensitive to breezes; the fibers will wave about slowly and with large range of motion when it is even lightly blown upon. You can set it on the patio (turned on, of course) in a very light breeze, and the fibers will wave about slowly - this effect is especially stunning at night or in very subdued lighting.
Photograph of the product - illuminated, of course.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this lamp.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this lamp; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 630nm and 640nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 636.290nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/45/folrair.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this lamp.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this lamp; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 505nm and 525nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 514.070nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/45/folraig.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this lamp.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this lamp; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 455nm and 465nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 458.930nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/45/folraib.txt
USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.
Video on YourTube showing this lamp's operation.
O BOY!
A fiber optic lamp changing colors, spinning, and buzzing!
So thrilling!!
So heart-stopping!!!
Actually, it kinda makes you want to kick over one of those Penal-Ware® ligature-resistant prison combys and then "pruhseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "uhn "olde" "orr" "uzed" "toylet" "brusch" doesn't it?
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Video on YourTube showing what happens when the Directly-Injected 5mW 515nm Green Laser Pen irradiates the fibers and the white wall BEHIND the fibers.
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Fairly brief video that demonstrates that the Fiber Optic Vibrating Light has gone to pot.
Note that there is no longer any green light, and the blue is extremely dim.
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Brief video showing how I partially resurrected my poor dead Fiber Optic Vibrating Light by using the Mini LED Projector as its light engine.
That blue and orange glow that you see during much of this video is coming from my Flaming Skull Lamp (which is on this website at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/skull.htm).
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Brief video hosted on YourTube showing how I partially resurrected my poor dead Fiber Optic Vibrating Light by using the Geo Strobe as its light engine.
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Video that shows the Mini LED Projector being used as the light engine for my poor, dead little Fiber Optic Vibrating Light.
The Mini LED Projector went to pot shortly after making this video.
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Brief video showing the Fiber Optic Vibrating Light in operation using my Galileo Thermometer's base as its light engine.
That music that you hear is from the pee-cee video game, "Wolfenstein 3D" released by ID Software in 1993.
This product is not audio- (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the zax may safely be ignored or even muted if it pisses you off.
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TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on the Things You Never Knew Existed website on 02-18-14 and arrived on the afternoon of 02-28-14.
UPDATE: 10-19-14
The lamp has effectively gone down the tube, therefore, the dreadful, "
" icon will be appended to its listings on this website.
PROS:
Beautiful to look at
Uses LEDs so you don't have to worry about hot, fragile incandescent bulbs
Appears to be at least reasonably sturdy
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
When set to rotate, the entire lamp vibrates rather strongly insteaad of just having the fiber bundle itself rotating
Battery life in "vibrate" mode will be short because of the powerful motor
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Decorative household lamp
LAMP TYPE: LED
No. OF LAMPS: Unknown (either 1x RGB LED or three discreet red, green, and blue LEDs)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/mode change/off on underside of product
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 3x AAA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡HUSOOS CRISTO LLEVA UN PAÑAL APESTA, NO!!! 
ACCESSORIES: Circular tray (for using the product in rotating mode)
SIZE: 33.50cm H (incl. fiber optic bundle) x 80mm Dia. (at widest part of base)
WEIGHT: 164.20g (5.790 oz.) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
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