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STAR TREK REPLICA
TYPE II PHASER
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Star Trek Replica Type II Phaser, retail ~$50.00
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 12-11-12

This is an interesting little gizmo - if you're a Star Trek fan (aka. a "trekker") that is.

This is a replica of a Type II hand phaser from the original series; it features lights & sounds - it even has a setting where you can cause the weapon to "overload" (well, that's what it sounds like it's doing anyway).

The unit seperates into two parts, so that the "good part" can be used as a Type I hand phaser in addition to the Type II phaser pistol we all know and love.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE (L: Type II, R: Type I)

To use the toy, just aim it at something and pull the trigger. Hold the trigger down for as long as you want the "phaser" sounds and the red LED to blink.

On the upper surface, you'll see a transparent plastic "dial" toward the right. You may turn this dial to select four sound pitches plus "off".

To the left of the dial is another wheel-like dial; you may spin this forward to lift up what I believe is a "scanner" of some type; spin it backward to lower it.

On the pistol portion, on the left side near the front is another dial; use this control to determine whether or not the LED in the tip comes on or not whenever the unit is "fired".

Finally, to set the unit to "overload", on the upper surface of the pistol portion near the rear is another dial. Turn it clockwise until it clicks. When the trigger is pulled at this point, the phaser emits a sound like it is on "overload", followed by another sound designed to mimic the sound produced by the phaser exploding.

There's a thick brass pin on the side of the "pistol" unit to the left of the "overload" dial; however, I have not yet figured out what it does...if it does anything at all that is.

You may unsnap the black portion of the phaser from the pistol portion and use it as a Type I hand phaser.

The phaser can be used with the same four sound pitches by spinning the dial with the transparent plastic cover; to actuate the phaser when it is detached from the pistol portion, press & hold down the black button on its underside; located just behind the two shiny metal electrical contacts. Release this button to silence it.

How the phaser might be wielded for "firing".

To change the batteries, snap the Type I hand phaser off the pistol, and set the pistol portion aside. Turn the hand phaser unit upside-down. You'll see a rectangular battery door secured by a screw. Remove the screw with a small phillips screwdriver, swing the battery door up & remove it, take it to a bridge over deep water (the Golden Gate Bridge would be ideal; however, the Juneau-Douglas Bridge would also do in a pinch), and throw it over the side so that it goes "blub blub blub" all the way to the bottom of Gastineau Channel with all of the bowling balls that were lobbed over that bridge in the 1950s and 1960s...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the three used button cells from the battery compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit. Do not shoot them into the upper atmosphere of Tantalus.

With the hand phaser in front of you so that the battery compartment is closest to you, insert three new L1154 button cells into the chambers for them, orienting each cell so that its button-end (-) negative faces the right.

Place the battery door back on, and insert & gently tighten that screw.
Aren't you glad that you didn't throw that battery door over the side of the Juneau-Douglas Bridge now?

This is what the Jueau-Douglas Bridge looks like...or what it lookED like anyway before it was replaced in 1976.

And this is what the bridge looks like now.

If desired, snap the unit back into the cradle in the pistol portion for it.

This phaser replica is intended to be used as a toy, not as a flashlight designed to be thrashed, trashed, and abused. 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 front porch, use a small ball peen hammer to bash it open in order 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 laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central), a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or a pack-of-cards-sized instrument that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), launch it into the upper atmosphere of Gamma Hydra II*, send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that a flashlight may have inflicted upon it.

In fact, that photograph, spectrographic analyses, and the three audio (sound) clips below may just be about it.

Photograph of the tip of the phaser illuminated.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED in the removeable part of this phaser.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED in the removeable part of this phaser; newer spectrometer software & settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED in the removeable part of this phaser; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 640nm and 690nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 662.770nm.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED in the removeable part of this device; newest (03-25-12) spectrometer software settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED in the removeable part of this device; newest (03-25-12) spectrometer software settings used. Spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 650nm and 670nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 664.555nm.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED in the pistol part of this phaser.

Spectrographic analysis of the LED in the pistol part of this phaser; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 625nm and 635nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 628.332nm.

USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

WAVE file (.wav extension) allowing you to hear the phaser on one of its settings.
File is 40,525 bytes in length.

WAVE file (.wav extension) allowing you to hear the phaser on another one of its settings.
File is 41,260 bytes in length.

WAVE file (.wav extension) allowing you to hear the phaser on "overload" - getting ready to explode...and then actually blowing up.
File is 72,127 bytes in length.

That "rustling" sound you hear in all three clips is a nearby electric fan. There's no air conditioner here, so the fan is absolutely, positively, 100% necessary.

TEST NOTES:
Phaser replica was purchased on Ebay sometime in 2004.

* From the Star Trek: TOS episode "The Deadly Years".

UPDATE: 00-00-00

Unknown

Replica phaser toy

Red LED

2 (1 each in Type I and Type II units)

N/A

Squeeze trigger to actuate

Plastic

N/A

3x L1154 button cells

Unknown/unable to measure

¡¡¡POR BIEN DE SPOCK NO!!!

3x L1154 button cells

93mm L x 25mm T x 45mm W {Type 1}; 212mm L x 150mm T x 45mm W {Type 2}

WEIGHT: 49.80g (1.750 oz.) {Type 1}; 130.40g (4.60 oz.) {Type 2}
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Unknown
WARRANTY: Unknown/TBA

PRODUCT RATING:

Product is not designed to emit light, so no "star" rating will be furnished.

Star Trek Replica Type II Phaser *

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