RAY-O-VAC SPORTSMAN
XTREME FLASHLIGHT

Ray-O-Vac Sportsman Xtreme Flashlight, retail ~$20 (www.wallmart.com)
Manufactured by Ray-O-Vac (www.rayovac.com)
Last updated 10-10-07




This is a flashlight that has a Luxeon I LED and what appears to be a Fraen optic in its business-end, powered by two AA cells held in its barrel. It is turned on and off via a click-action pushbutton switch on the tailcap. It comes in an almost all-aluminum body with a camouflage ("camo") finish.

The flashlight was found at a Wall*Mart store, but I was not able to find it on their website, so the link I furnished above simply leads to their front page.


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Firmly press & release the rubberised button on the tailcap and the product will spring to life.

Perform the same action again to turn it off.

There is no momentary or signalling mode available when the flashlight is off, however, you can blink the Sportsman Xtreme while it is on by partially depressing the button. If you don't mind the backward or reverse feeling of this, you can blink the flashlight this way.



To change the batteries in your Sportsman Xtreme, unscrew and remove the tailcap, 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.

Remove the two used AA cells from the barrel, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

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

Screw the tailcap back on, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that tailcap 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.

Current usage measures 273.1mA on my DMM's 400mA 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 the 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 used by Langston Licktoad), 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 administered that dreadful suction test on it, and it failed. It did not fail miserably, but some air was admitted. 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 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 Massengill 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.

When you first receive the flashlight, you'll find a spare O-ring used as a rubber band to hold the wrist lanyard folded up; you should try to remove it without breaking it. As far as I'm able to determine, it will fit on the barrel near the tailcap, so if the one there becomes broken, you can easily put the replacement on.



Beam photograph on the test target at 12".
Measures 998,000mcd on a Meterman LM631 light meter.



Beam photograph on a wall at ~10'.

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.



ProMetric analysis
Beam cross-sectional analysis.
Image made using the ProMetric System by Radiant Imaging.






TEST NOTES:
Test units of this and three other products were loaned to me by a website
fan on 09-19-07 and were received on the afternoon of 09-21-07.

I don't have a spectrographic analysis on this web page because the person who loaned the spectrometer to me needed it back for a demonstration; if I receive it before I send this flashlight back, I'll perform a spectrographic analysis and remove that dreadful "Requires spectrographic analysis" icon from its listings on this website.

As far as I can determine, product was made in the United States.
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



PROS:



CONS:



    MANUFACTURER: Ray-O-Vac
    PRODUCT TYPE: Small handheld flashlight
    LAMP TYPE: White Luxeon I LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: Medium spot w/dimmer corona
    SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on barrel
    CASE MATERIAL: Metal
    BEZEL: Metal; LED & optic protected by plastic window
    BATTERY: 2xAA cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 273.1mA
    WATER RESISTANT: Yes, splatter-resistant at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: No
    ACCESSORIES: Two AA cells, wrist lanyard (already attached), spare O-ring
    WARRANTY: Lifetime

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Star Rating





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