20xLED MICRO 8-FUNCTION PHOSPHOR ORANGE LED HALLOWEEN LIGHTS
20 LED Micro 8-Function Phosphor Orange LED Halloween Lights, retail $2.84 (walmart.com...
Manufactured by (Unknown) for Wall*Mart (www.wallmart.com)
Last updated 10-23-20
These light sets were found in a Wall*Mart store in the western coast of the United States (the state of California, to be specific) in early-October 2019 for $2.84 each.
The light sets contain 20 (twenty) 3mm phosphor orange 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 six other modes.
Total set length is advertised to be 7 feet; lighted length is advertised as 6 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 carefully because the wires are considerably thinner than the wires are on corded sets. Hang them on porches, mantles, doorways, or other places where you might normally hang light sets.
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 the button and hold it down for approx. 3 seconds; when the lights turn off you may safely release the button.
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 vacuum 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.
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 Halloween 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.
This light set appears to use PHOSPHOR ORANGE LEDs -- that tells me at once that blue LEDs are now cheaper to manufacture than orange 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 the batteries.
Photograph of the set, illuminated of course.
The camera really botched the color; these lights do appear a mainly spectral orange to the unaided eye.
Photograph of the lights deployed on our porch as they will be for Halloween.
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this light set.
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 580nm and 630nm to pinpoint the phosphor's peak emission wavelength, which is 616.030nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 20hall.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's input deliberately overloaded to show the blue emission.
This (plus an examination of the LED's die area and the unexpectedly broadband emission) leads me to believe that these LEDs are actually PHOSPHOR ORANGE LEDs!!!
The native emission peaks at 474.730nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 20hallb.txt
Video on YourTube allowing you to see the 20 LED Micro 8-Function Halloween Lights blinking on the floor 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 heart-stopping!!!
Actually, it kinda makes you want to kick one of those wall-mounted porcelain uranators off the wall, doesn't it?
Video on YourTube allowing you to see the extent of our Halloween decorations this year (2019).
O BOY!!! Some blinking lights! So thrilling!! So heart-stopping!!!
Actually, it kinda makes you want to "kik" "thuh" "lidd" "oph" "uh" "Jak" "Oh" "Lanturne, "pea" "inn" "iht", "ahnd" "thenh" "pruseed" "tu" "bete" "thuh" "liveng" "tweadel" "owt" "uv" "itt" "whithe" "thuh" "handel" "uv" "ahn" "olld" "orr" "yoozed" "puschbrume" doesn't it? ;-)
That music that you hear is the song, "Monster Mash" by Bobby Pickett.
None of these products are audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
The video was allowed to loop several times in order to accommodate the length of the song.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at a local Wall*Mart on 10-01-19.
UPDATE: 10-23-20
Product has apparently been stolen from me.
Therefore, the dreadful, "" icon must be appended to its listings on this website at once, denoting the fact that I no longer have the product available for future testing, comparisions, or analysis -- and I cannot decorate with them this Halloween.
There is also a very small possibility that I inadvertently disposed of them myself when I moved from one bedroom to another one approx. eight months ago; a lot of stuff was discarded.
The possibility of this having occurred is small, but is not mathematically zero.
MANUFACTURER: Unknown for Everstar Merchandise Co. Ltd.; they sell it to Wall*Mart
PRODUCT TYPE: Battery-operated holiday light set
LAMP TYPE: 3mm phosphor orange LED
No. OF LAMPS: 20
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: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND MT. DEW ICE-RESISTANT: Yes
SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, to shallow depths for short periods at minimum
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: Total length 7 feet (2.14M); lighted length 6 feet (1.83M)
WEIGHT: 127g (4.48oz) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Cambodia
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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