200x MULTOICOLOR LED BATTERY-OPERATED TIMER LIGHTS
200x Multicolor LED Battery-Operated Timer Lights, retail $9.66
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 01-17-21
I found this light set on Ebay, and being the LED nerd that I am, I *HAD* to have them.
The light sets contain 200 multicolor (50 ea. phosphor red, phosphor yellow, phosphor green, and native blue) 3mm inverse conical lens LEDs, powered by three AA cells inside a surprisingly well-constructed battery pack.
They can be set to all operate continuously or be operated in any of seven other modes.
Lighted length is advertised as 65.29 feet.
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Feed the lights first (see directly below), and then you can go decorate that porch.
String these up as you would oridinary (corded) seasonal lights, but handle them somewhat gingerly because the wires are just a wee bit thinner than the wires are on corded sets. Hang them on porches, mantles, doorways, or other places where you might normally hang light sets -- or just hang the suckers off your dorm room ceiling for that special holiday feel all year 'round.
To turn them on, press & release the rubbery black button on the battery box. To change modes, quickly press & release the button one or more times until the desired mode comes up.
To neutralise them when you are finished using them, press & release the button one or more times until they extinguish.
The light set has a 6-hours on / 18-hours off automatic timer; simply meaning that you can just "set it and forget it" to borrow a phrase from one of Ron Popiel's infomercials that ran near the turn of the century.
To change the batteries, unclip the two clips on the battery door and swing the door open. It is captive, so nothing is going to fall off, go into the rug, and later fall prey to the hungry, hungry vaccum cleaner.
If necessary, remove and dispose of or recycle the 3 used AA cells from the compartment.
Insert three new AA cells in the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.
Swing the battery door back closed, and snap the two clasps back into place.
Current usage measures a very modest 27.80mA (in "steady-on" mode) on my DMM's 200mA scale.
These light sets appear at least *reasonably* durable, in that they should not just fall apart on their own or through just casual handling.
This product is meant to be used as a Christmas light string in a reasonably dry area indoors (or outdoors because they are immune to $#¡77Y weather but I don't believe that they're totally submersible), not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, used, and abused; so I won't try to drown them in my toilet, bash them against the concrete floor of a patio or a steel rod, let my housemate's kitty cats go to the bathroom on them, run over them with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 (motorised wheelchair), or perform other indecencies that a regular flashlight might have to go through.
Judging by the construction of the battery/electronics housing, these lights are weatherproof at minimum.
There's a surprisingly beefy rubber gasket around the entire edge of the case and the power/function button is totally inside the case but a circular rubber cap allows you to actuate it without actually exposing it to the elements.
Seeing that this is indeed the case, I think that I'll go ahead and perform The Toliet Test on them and see what happens...
Here's photographic evidence that I really performed, "The Toliet Test" on them and that these lights passed!
I apologise for the inferior quality of this photograph of the lights in the cistern (toliet tank); my last decent camera was on a drone that went down in late-June 2019 and was rather surprisingly quickly stolen.
This light set appears to use PHOSPHOR RED, PHOSPHOR YELLOW and PHOSPHOR GREEN LEDs -- that tells me at once that blue LEDs are now cheaper to manufacture than regular red, yellow, and green LEDs!
One thing I did note is that steady-on really isn't "steady"; no, the LEDs blink rapidly enough to appear steady-on but if you sweep your eyes across them you'll see them blink. This is because the "steady-on" mode uses PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) to help extend the life of those tiny little batteries (when three AA cells are called upon to illuminate 200 LEDs, yeah I'd call them "tiny" hahaha!!!)
Photograph of the set, illuminated of course.
Photograph of the set deployed in front of our house.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this light set.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 620nm and 640nm to pinpoint the peak phosphor emission wavelength, which is 633.650nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 470nm to pinpoint the peak native emission wavelength, which is 454.700nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 200fesr.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the yellow LEDs in this light set.
Spectrographic analysis of the yellow LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 570nm and 610nm to pinpoint the phosphor peak emission wavelength, which is 581.780nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the yellow LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 460nm to pinpoint the peak native emission wavelength, which is 450.120nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 200fesy.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this light set.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 505nm and 535nm to pinpoint the peak emission wavelength, which is 516.490nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 200fesg.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this light set.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 470nm to pinpoint the peak emission wavelength, which is 457.870nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 200fesb.txt
Video on YourTube allowing you to see the 200x Multicolor LED Battery-Operated Timer Lights blinking on the bed while I'm changing the functions (I haven't yet chosen a location in which to hang these).
O BOY!!! Some blinking lights! So thrilling!! So pulse-pounding!! A fv¢k!ñg adrenaline rush in a can!!!
Actually, it kinda makes you want to "nock" "uh" "ded" "Crismess" "tre" "ovur" "ahnd" "thenh" "pruseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "liveng" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "whithe" "thuh" "wouldin" "handel" "uv" "ahn" "olld" "orr" "yoozed" "toliet" "plunjar" doesn't it? ;-)
That music that you hear is the song, "Feliz Navidad" by Hozay Feliciano.
This product is not audio- (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
Video on YourTube allowing you to see the 200x Multicolor LED Battery-Operated Timer Lights blinking in this year's chosen installation location.
The video loops three times in order to accommodate the length of the music.
That music that you hear is the song, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
This product is not audio- (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Ebay on 11-01-19 and was received at 11:11am PST on 11-09-19.
UPDATE: 01-17-21
My electric wheelchair got hung up on the lights yesterday morning and snapped at least two of the wires, rendering the set inoperative. Therefore, I must append the dreadful, "" icon to its listings on this website.
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Battery-operated holiday light set
LAMP TYPE: 3mm inverse conical lens LED
No. OF LAMPS: 200 (50 ea. red, yellow, green, blue)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/mode change/off on battery box
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 3x AA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 27.80mA (in "steady-on" mode)
WATER- AND MT. DEW ICE-RESISTANT: Yes
SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, to shallow depths for short periods at minimum
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: Total length 66.27 feet (20.20M); lighted length 65.29 feet (19.90M)
WEIGHT: 415g (14.67oz) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: United Kingdom
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
(This is a provisional rating; if I note any issues after using them for awhile, off come some stars.)
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