7 COLOR LIGHT PEN

7 Color Light Pen, retail $TBA
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 09-04-09




The 7 Color Light Pen is a ballpoint pen with three 3mm LEDs inside, that illuminate a clear, transparent piece occupying approximately 65% of the barrel.

Pressing the button on the side of the barrel illuminates one or more of the three 3mm LEDs inside, giving you colors of green, blue, red, cyan, purple, yellow, white, and a mode which performs a color wash where the LEDs cycle themselves to create the various colors.


Size of product w/hand to show scale SIZE



Press the button on the side of the barrel once to get yellow-green LED to come on;. Press it again to turn the pen off. Press it again to get the blue LED to come on. Press it again to turn the pen off. Press it again to get the red LED to come on. Press it again to turn the pen off. Press it again to get the yellow-green & blue LEDs to come on. Press it again to turn the pen off. Press it again to get the red & blue LEDs to come on. Press it again to turn the pen off. Press it again to get the yellow-green & red LEDs to come on. Press it again to turn the pen off. Press it again to get all three LEDs to come on. Press it again to turn the pen off. Press it again to get the LEDs to do a "color wash", with all three LEDs fading up and down in intensity. Press it again to turn the pen off.

As it reads on the back of many shampoopoo (or shampeepee) bottles, "lather, rinse, repeat". In other words, pressing the button again turns the yellow-green LED on.

You may also remove the lower portion of the pen barrel to use this product like a flashlight.

To use the pen portion of this gadget, grasp the unit so one hand is just below the center of the barrel (on the clear part), and turn the business end of the barrel clockwise (as if tightening it), and the pen tip should extend so you can write with it. Turn the business end of the barrel counterclockwise (as if loosening it) to retract the pen tip.



To change the batteries, hold the pen so the point (the ink portion) is facing downward, and unscrew the end cap (at the top) until it comes off. Carry it to the kitchen dustbin (garbage can) and drop it in. Then collect the bin liner (plastic garbage bag), carry it outside, drop it in the wheelie bin (outdoor wheeled garbage can) and wait patiently for garbage day so that the dustman (garbage man) hooks the wheelie bin onto the front of his dust lorry (garbage truck), dumps it in, and then drives away...O WAIT YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Tip the open end of the pen upside down over your hand; tap it if that last cell just won't fall out. Dispose of or recycle the batteries as you see fit.
Hold the barrel of the pen horizontally in one hand, and slip three new AG-13 (LR-44) cells in, one at a time, with the other hand. Insert the batteries button-end (-) first. Once all three cells are inside, you can turn the pen base-up if you wish, and screw the end cap back on.

You can also stack the cells, button-end (-) up, on a table, counter, desk, or other flat surface, and lower the open end of the pen barrel over the cells. Slide it toward the edge of the table, and place your thumb or a finger over the open end of the pen barrel as you slide it over the edge. Invert (flip over) the pen as it clears the edge of the table, and screw the end cap back on.

Aren't you glad you didn't throw that end cap into the kitchen dustbin (garbage can) now?



The 7 Color Light Pen was meant to be used as a ballpoint pen, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the cistern (toliet tank), bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a front porch, let my mother's big dog's ghost or my sister's kitty cats spring a leak (uranate) on it, hose it down with a gun, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (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 (located at Piņata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

The pen portion writes in black ink, and appears to write in a quality you might expect from any good disposable pen.

The approximate LED wavelengths are 655nm (red), 570nm (yellow-green), and 465nm (blue).
I don't know why they chose a 570nm yellow-green LED instead of a much brighter 525nm green LED, so please do not ask.

In my opinion, this instrument isn't fantastic, but I don't feel like devolving into a pygmy marmoset or a rhesus monkey and throwing my own feces at it either.

This particular unit is defective, so I really can't complete testing on it.



Photograph of the pen, illuminating its red LED in this case.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (red) in this pen.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (green) in this pen.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (blue) in this pen.
USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.


WMP movie (.avi extension) showing the product flashing.
This clip is approximately 1.674534 megabytes (1,776,880 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than eight minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
I cannot provide it in other formats, so please do not ask.








TEST NOTES:
Test unit was obtained sometime in 2004.

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.

Product is defective; therefore, my tests and analyses of it will be incomplete.


UPDATE: 00-00-00






    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: LED-lighted ballpoint pen
    LAMP TYPE: 3mm LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 3 (1 ea. red, yellow-green, blue)
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/mode change/off on pen barrel
    CASE MATERIAL: Metal and plastic
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: 3xAG13 (LR44) button cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistant at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
    ACCESSORIES: 3xAG13 button cells
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Because this product is not intended to emit
    light, the standard "star" rating will not be used.





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