GALILEO THERMOMETER
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All your base are belong to us.
This is a very unique fusion of old and new technology: a Galileo thermometer underlighted by a color-changing LED base!
The thermometer itself consists of a liquid-filled clear glass bottle with seven smaller glass spheres inside - these glass spheres have different colored liquids in them and have brass or brass-colored metal tags hanging from their bottoms with numbers on them that represent degrees celsius on one side and degress farenheit on the other.
What allowed this product to make it on this website though is the base: it has six LEDs that perform a color wash-type of effect when the switch on the side of the base is turned on.
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To turn the LEDs on, slide the small slide switch on the side of the base to the left. Slide this switch to the right to turn the LEDs off.
To read the temperature, look in the bottle for the lowest sphere that's still floating, and look at the little metal tag hanging on its underside. One side of this tag shows the temperature in degrees farenheit; the other side in degrees celsius (centigrade).
To change the batteries, remove the battery door from the bottom of the unit, gently place it on the ground, and kick it into the garden so the hungry, hungry praying mantids will think it's something yummy to eat and subsequently strike at it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.
If necessary, remove & dispose of or recycle the three used AA cells from the compartment as you see fit.
Place three new AA cells in the compartment, orienting them so the flat-end (-) negative of each cell faces a spring for it in each chamber.
Finally, place the battery door back on.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door into the garden with all those 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.
The Galileo thermometer is a fairly delicate instrument, not a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused. It was also a Christmas gift from my parents. So I won't hit it against the concrete floor of a patio, try to drown it in a toilet, stomp on it, throw it against a wall, run over it with a 450lb electric wheelchair, let my housemate's cats take a leak on it, throw it at a wall-mounted porcelain urinator to see if it explodes (the thermometer, not the urinator), sit on it really hard, or subject it to any other potentially destructive tests that a regular flashlight might be subject to. So this section of the web page will appear significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
In fact, the photograph and movie below will probably be about it for this web page.
The bottle is *DELIBERATELY* underfilled a bit; this is perfectly normal and is nothing whatsoever to be concerned about.
The liquid in the bottle is mineral oil, so please do not break it over or against any porous surface (such as carpeting, upholstered furniture, etc.) or you may find yourself with a stain that will be very difficult to remove. The mineral oil is clear & colorless though, so the stain will not be nearly as bad as it could be.
Photograph of the product in use - LEDs on of course.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this thermometer.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this thermometer; newer spectrometer software & settings used.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this thermometer; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 610nm and 660nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 631.958nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this thermometer; newest (01-13-13) spectrometer software & settings used.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this thermometer; newest (01-13-13) spectrometer software & settings used. Spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 620nm and 640nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 633.997nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this thermometer.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this thermometer; newer spectrometer software & settings used.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this thermometer; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 490nm and 540nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 515.082nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this thermometer; newest (01-13-13) spectrometer software & settings used.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this thermometer; newest (01-13-13) spectrometer software & settings used. Spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 500nm and 525nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 514.444nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this thermometer.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this thermometer; newer spectrometer software & settings used.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this thermometer; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 490nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 468.010nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this thermometer; newest (01-13-13) spectrometer software & settings used.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this thermometer; newest (01-13-13) spectrometer software & settings used. Spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 450nm and 480nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 465.482nm.
USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.
WMP movie (.avi extension) showing the color wash effect.
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The song "Audio Art" for the Commodore 64 computer was playing when this recording was made.
This is a video on YouTube showing the Galileo Thermometer in action.
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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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I cannot provide any of these videos in other formats, so please do not ask.
TEST NOTES:
Product was received as a Christmas gift on 12-24-06. Because it was a gift, the more abusive and poterntially destructive tests will not be performed on it.
Product was made in China. A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I published it on this web page.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Galileo thermometer w/LED base
LAMP TYPE: 5mm LED
No. OF LAMPS: 6 (2 red, 2 green, 2 blue)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide switch on/off
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic w/glass bottle
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 3xAA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND PEE-RESISTANT: Light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
ACCESSORIES: None
WARRANTY: Unknown
PRODUCT RATING:
Because this product is not intended to emit
light, the standard "star" rating will not be used.
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