HUSKY HEAVY-DUTY 3W LED FLASHLIGHT

Husky Heavy-Duty 3W LED Flashlight, retail ~$25.00 (www.homedepot.com)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 09-23-07




This is the Husky Heavy-Duty 3W LED Flashlight. It comes in a handsome aluminum body, and it has a Luxeon III LED and an almost-mirror-smooth reflector behind a clear plastic window. It has three intensity settings (low, medium, and high), and feeds from two D cells held in its knurled aluminum barrel.

Because it uses two cells (~+3.0 volts), there is an inverter in there to increase the voltage slightly to the +3.6 to +4.0 volts that white LED needs. I attempted to observe the pulses from the inverter with an oscilloscope, and was successful.


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Press the black button on the barrel firmly until it clicks and then release it to turn the LED on in low mode.
Press the black button on the barrel firmly until it clicks and then release it to turn the LED on in medium mode.
Press the black button on the barrel firmly until it clicks and then release it to turn the LED on in high mode.
Finally, press and release the button the same way again to turn the LED on back off.



To change the batteries in your flashlight, unscrew and remove the tailcap, dash it to the ground, and stomp on it with old or used bowling shoes...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

If necessary, tip out the two used up old D cells, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert two new D cells into the barrel, orienting them so their button-ends (+) positives go in first.

Finally, screw the tailcap firmly back on.
Aren't you glad you didn't stomp on that tailcap now?

Current usage measures 670mA (low), 835mA (medium) and 1,017mA (1.017 amps) (high) on my DMM's 4A scale.




This is a loaner, and I'm sure its owner will want it back with no dings in the bezel or rat pellets or yukky old toliet water in ther barrel. So I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar term for feces}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 cannonada (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-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 non-loaner flashlights may have inflicted upon them.
So this section of the flashlight's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that is not a loaner sample.

I did administer "The Suction Test" on it, and it leaked air - and not just a little either. Therefore, water, milk, diet vanilla Pepsi, cold (or hot) coffee, urine, ice cold fizzy root beer, disposable douches, disposable enemas, tranny fluid, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, brake fluid, motor oil, or other liquids could get inside. So please try not to drop it in creeks, rivers, ponds, lakes, oceansides, docksides, snowbanks, puddles of rhinocerous pee, tall cold glasses (or short lukewarm glasses) of milk, slush piles, mud puddles, tubs, root beer floats, toilet bowls, cisterns, sinks, cups of coffee (hot *OR* cold), fishtanks, dog water dishes, old yucky wet mops, wall-mounted porcelain urinators, leaky water heaters, busted garden hoses, or other places where water or water-like liquids might be found. And you'll probably want to cover it up or otherwise get rid of it (such as by putting it in a pocket or bag) if you need to carry it in rainy or snowy weather.

A little rain or snow probably wouldn't hurt it though, so you need not be too concerned about using it in lightly to at most moderately bad weather.

If it fell in water and you suspect it got flooded, disassemble it as you would for a battery change, dump out the water 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 reassemble and use it again.

If it fell into seawater, got thrown into a glass of milk, if it fell in a root beer float, if somebody squirted a Summer's Eve brand post-menstrual disposable douche or a Fleet brand disposable enema at it (and hit it with the douche or the enema), or if somebody or something peed on it, rinse all the parts out with fresh water before setting them out to dry. You don't want your light to smell like seaweed, sour milk, flowers, fresh butts, or rotten piss when you go to use it next. Besides, salt (from seawater, disposable douches, disposable enemas, or urination), lactic acid (from moo juice), glycerol (from antifreeze), or sugar (from root beer & ice cream) can't be very good for the insides.



Beam photograph on the test target at 12".
Measures 220,000mcd (low), 670,000mcd (medium), and 1,340,000mcd (high) on a Meterman LM631 light meter.



Beam photograph on a wall at ~10 feet.
Those rectangular graphic things in the upper left quadrant of this photograph are marquees from:

Nintendo ''R-Type''
Super Tiger...er...uh...Konami ''Super Cobra''
Midway ''Omega Race''
Sega ''Star Trek''
Williams ''Joust''
Venture Line ''Looping''
Universal ''Mr. Do!'s Castle''
Jaleco ''Exerion''
Gremlin/Sega ''Astro Blaster''
Atari ''Tempest''
Gottlieb ''Q*bert''

upright coin-op arcade video games from the 1980s.

That graphic toward the right is:
A "BIG SCARY LASER" poster sent by www.megagreen.co.uk


And that clock to the right of the "Big Scary Laser" poster is an Infinity Optics Clock.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this flashlight.
Ocean Optics USB2000 Spectrometer on loan from WWW.TWO-CUBED.COM.


ProMetric analysis
Beam cross-sectional analysis of the LED in this flashlight..
Image made using the ProMetric System by Radiant Imaging.



TEST NOTES:
Test units of this and four other products were loaned to me by a website
fan on 08-11-07 and were received on the afternoon of 08-14-07.

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: 09-23-07
A replacement unit was loaned to me by a website fan on 09-19-07 and was received on the afternoon of 09-21-07.


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CONS:



    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: Large handheld flashlight
    LAMP TYPE: White 3W Luxeon LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: Narrowish-medium spot w/dimmer corona
    SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on tailcap
    CASE MATERIAL: Metal
    BEZEL: Metal; LED & reflector protected by plastic window
    BATTERY: 2xD cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 670mA (low), 835mA (medium) and 1,017mA (high)
    WATER RESISTANT: Yes, splatter-resistant at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: No
    ACCESSORIES: Two D cells
    WARRANTY: 3 years

    PRODUCT RATING:

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