Red 3-Function 18-LED Ultra-Slim Wire Light Set, retail $3.88 (walmart.com...
Manufactured by (Unknown) for Wall*Mart (www.wallmart.com)
Last updated 06-22-21
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-November 2019 for $3.88 each.
The light sets contain 18 (eighteen) "blob-type" red LEDs, powered by three AA cells inside a decently-made battery pack.
They can be set to all operate continuously, blink in unison, or fade on & off in unison.
The lights also have an inbuilt timer that turns them on for six hours and off for eighteen hours.
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 ordinary (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, slide the black slide switch on the battery box to the left until it clicks once to turn them on in steady-on mode. Keep sliding the switch to the left until it clicks again to turn them on in blink mode, Keep sliding the switch to the left until it clicks again to turn them on in fade mode.
To neutralise them when you are finished using them, slide the switch all the way to the right until it stops.
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, slide the battery door off in the direction of the arrow embossed onto it, and carefully place it on the floor directly in front of the fireplace so that Santa Clause will slip on it and fall when he comes down the chimney to deliver presents on Christmas morning...O WAIT!!! THAT'S A REALLY $#¡77Y IDEA!!!
Just set the damn thing aside instead.
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.
Slide the battery door back on, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad that you didn't leave it in front of the fireplace where a Christmas accident could occur now?
A set of alkaline AA cells ran from 10-09-19 until 12-08-19; that's 50 days.
This is a very decent runtime if you ask me.
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 indoors or in a reasonably dry covered location outdoors, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, 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 landlady's Dalmation puppies and adult doggos uranate (piddle) 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.
Does this evaluation look an awful lot like the one that I made for this product?
Thought that you'd say so.
That's because they're physically and electrically extremely similar -- differing mainly in lamp color and wire insulation color -- so I was able to use its evaluation as a template for this one.
Photograph of the set, illuminated of course.
I apologise for the $#¡77Y photo quality; my only decent camera was affixed to a drone which went down (and was then surprisingly quickly stolen) in late-June 2019.
Two times now within the last several days, I've gotten up very early in the morning (~3:00am PDT) and saw the light set glowing VERY DIMLY with a dim greyish-white light. I attempted to photograph it but the only camera that I have really isn't sensitive enough to photograph this directly. So I used the, "Auto-Adjust Colors" setting in IrFanView (my de-facto image viewer) and, "Set to greyscale" functions to show the LEDs' glowing.
This is VERY CLOSE how the eye would see it!!!
This is the raw image file. If you think that you can do something with this, right-click on it, select, "Save link as", work your magic, and then email it to me at bdf1111@yahoo.com.
Multiple times now, I've gotten up very early in the morning (~3:00am PDT) and saw the light set glowing VERY DIMLY with a dim greyish-white light. I attempted to photograph it with a GoPro Hero 3 but it really isn't sensitive enough to photograph this directly. So I used the, "Auto-Adjust Colors" (increases overall image brightness) setting in IrFanView (my de-facto image viewer) function to show the LEDs' glowing. This photograph makes the lights look considerably brighter than I see them but the color is pretty close to being accurate.
This is VERY CLOSE how the eye would see it!!!
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 610nm and 640nm to pinpoint the peak emission wavelength, which is 632.650nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at red3fus.txt
Video on YourTube allowing you to see the Red 3-Function 18-LED Ultra-Slim Wire Light Set 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 heart-stopping!!!
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" "handel" "uv" "ahn" "olld" "orr" "yoozed" "raik" doesn't it? ;-)
That music that you hear is the song, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
Red Christmas lights, red-nosed reindeer, you figure it out. ;-)
This product is not 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 10-08-19.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
MANUFACTURER: Unknown for Everstar Merchandise Co. Ltd.; they sell it to Wall*Mart
PRODUCT TYPE: Battery-operated holiday light set
LAMP TYPE: "Blob-type" red LED
No. OF LAMPS: 18
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide 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: Light splatter-resistant at minimum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡PAPÁ NOEL TOMANDO UNA FUGA POR LA CHIMENEA, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: Total length 7 feet (2.14M); lighted length 6 feet (1.83M)
WEIGHT: 105g (3.70oz) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Indonesia
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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