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LIFE+GEAR 9 WHITE LED 1 RED LED FLASHLIGHT & SIGNAL LIGHT

Life+Gear 9x White LED + 1x Red LED Flashlight & Signal Light, retail $5.99 (www.lifegear.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown) for Life+Gear (www.lifegearcompany.com)
Last updated 07-09-14

The Life+Gear 9x White LED + 1x Red LED Flashlight & Signal Light (hereinafter, probably just called a, "flashlight") is an LED flashlight that features 9 phosphor white LEDs protected by a water-clear plastic window, and a single red LED in its tailcap.

It comes in a sturdy aluminum body protected by Type II anodizing (pink in this case).

It has three AAA cells in a battery carriage contained safely within its barrel to feed those LEDs with.

Not only does it have a flashlight function, a red LED in the tailcap can be set to steady-on, blink, and the international S.O.S. distress signal.

SIZE

To use the light, press & release the milky white pushbutton switch on the tailcap as follows:

1st: Flashlight mode.
2nd: Tailcap button steady-on mode (red LED in tailcap turns steady-on).
3rd: Beacon mode (red LED in tailcap flashes).
4th: Holding the tailcap button down in any mode for >3 seconds causes the red tailcap LED to blink in S.O.S. mode (three short blinks, a brief pause, three longer blinks, brief pause, three short blinks; cycle repeats).
5th: Neutralises the product.

Just like it reads on the backs of many shampoo (or shampiddle or even shampotty) bottles: lather, rinse, repeat -- in other words, pressing & releasing the button a sixth time turns the product on in flashlight mode again.

To change the batteries, unscrew and remove the tailcap, throw it to the ground, look at it all funny, cock your head like a puppy that doesn't understand what it had just been told, and stomp on it with old or used bowling shoes...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Tip the black plastic battery carriage out of the barrel and into your hand. If necessary, remove and dispose of or recycle the used AAA cells from it.

Insert three new AAA cells into the carriage, orienting each cell so its flat end (-) negative faces the spring for it in each chamber.

Slide the now-full battery carriage into the flashlight barrel, orienting it so the metal pin on one end of the carriage goes in last (e.g., it is visible at tail end of the barrel). Finally, screw the tailcap firmly back on.

Aren't you glad you didn't stomp on that tailcap now?

Unable to measure current usage yet because my DMM is packed for a move to take place later today (07-09-14).

The flashlight appears to be reasonably durable and sturdy, and it is. Ordinary flashlight accidents should not be enough to do it in. I administered the smack test on it (ten whacks against the concrete floor of a patio; five whacks against the side of the tailcap and five whacks against the side of the bezel), and O NOOOOO!!! THE FLASHLIGHT STOPPED FUNCTIONING IN ANY MODE!!! How could I be such a heartless callous cretin and destroy a perfectly goo...HOLD THE TELEPHONE HERE FOLKS! I tightened the bezel and it immediately sprung back to life!!! I then visually examined the flashlight. I found the expected damage -- there is readily visible gouging to the bare Metalblackwargreymon - er - the bare Metalikkakumon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalpalmon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again!

- now I'm just making {vulgar term for a fudge bunny} up!!!) on the edge of the bezel and edge of the tailcap where it was struck. No optical or electrical malfunctions were detected -- not after I tightened the bezel anyway.

The purpose of The Smack Test is not to see if the product exhibits viewable external damage, but to see if its internal electronics can withstand momentary shock loads (G-force) without failure.

This flashlight is water-resistant and even submersible to shallow depths for a very brief time {insomuch as to where a fall into a shallow creek and fast retrival should not kill it}, so using it in the rain or snow should be fine.

The unit produces a nice, slightly cool white light with no purple, yellow, or "rotten rhinocerous urine green" tint to it.

Photograph of the light's beam terminus on the test target at 12".

Photograph of the light's output (red LED) on the test target at 12".

My Amprobe LM631A light meter (and scale and calipers) are packed for a move to take place later today (07-09-14), so the intensity values, size, and weight will be missing for another day or two.

Spectrographic analysis of the white LEDs in this flashlight.

Spectrographic analysis of the white LEDs in this flashlight; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 435nm and 445nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 440.220nm

The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/lg-9-w.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this flashlight.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in this flashlight; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 630nm and 640nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 635.300nm

The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/lg-9-r.txt

USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

This video shows the red taillight of the Life+Gear 9x White LED + 1x Red LED Flashlight & Signal Light in steady-on, blink, and S.O.S. modes.

O BOY! A BLINKING LIGHT!
So thrilling!!
So pulse-racing!!!
Actually, it kinda "makes" "ewe" "wahnt" "tu" "kik" "uh" "porselin" "toliet" "bole" "oph" "thuh" "wal" "ahnd" "thenn" "pruseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "thuh" "haff" "uv" "uh" "bustid" "boling" "bal" "withh" "thuh" "plootonyum" "coar" doesn't it? ;-)

This video is 10.6428929037 megabytes (10,808,968 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware. It will take no less than fifty three minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at a nearby Safeway in Federal Way WA. USA on 07-02-14.

UPDATE: 00-00-00

PROS:
Compact size & shape
Uses batteries that are common and relatively inexpen$ive
Seems reasonably durable

NEUTRAL:

CONS:
Uses a battery carriage -- one more thing to become busted or lost ("busted" = broken; not to be caught during or after the commission of a crime!

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Unknown for Life+Gear

LED flashlight + signal light

White LEDs, red LED

10 (9 white, 1 red)

Medium spot with soft corona

Mirror-smooth; it's present for cosmetic purposes only

Pushbutton on/mode change/off on upper surface of product

Metal; plastic window protects LEDs & reflector

3xAAA cells

Yes

Yes, to shallow depths for brief periods

3x AAA cells, small lanyard

China

5 years

Life+Gear 9x White LED + 1x Red LED Flashlight & Signal Light * www.lifegear.com...

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