Those no-name 2 for ten bucks "shake lights"

funny how the chinese produce such inferior products....they mangle english almost as badly as negros....yet they are gonna economically gut the USA

Now you gone and done it I am gong to Walgren thes aftermoon! Might be fun to hack and screw around with, I am thinking about converting to to one of the 2MillionTrillionGaBillion candle power handheld lights!.....

D> Picked up a pair of those two for 5 bucks shake lights Walgreen's is

Now that's just unfair. I doubt that you can come up with any documented instances of Chinese mangling Negros, either well or badly.

Oh great... sci.electronics.* has now become the place to post a serious question if you want to stir up a few racists and lamers spouting stupidity and thinking it's comedy. I was under the impression that those kind of kiddy-games were relegated to the alt.* hierarchy. My bad...

Ask a serious question, stir a handful of imbeciles out of the woodwork... I'm afraid to think about what would happen if I were to post a fart joke - Some wag would post back with details of how to build an aperational fusion reactor?

I'll make an effort in the future to recall that these groups are now officially intended for fart jokes and similar-level stupidity passing as humor. Ha-ha - Get it? fart joke? passing? Gawd, I'm so clever...

My apologies for actually asking a serious question. Forgive me for interrupting - Now back to your regularly scheduled "funny" posts.

Oh, get over yourself, Don. Your "serious question" was one line at the end of a post that opened up by belittling the fractured English on a package and segued to probing the technical depths of a garden-variety linear generator and LED light.

How's your Mandarin or Cantonese, BTW?

I wrote pretty much the same stuff in the "Shakelight reviews?" thread.

Some of us are more easily amused than others; that said, I found it pretty funny too. OTOH I worry that the Chinese are tracking our educashun system's progress, and are labeling their products to suit our lowest common denominator. Either that or it's _supposed_ to be funny...

Mine had 5.5V .2F caps. Different production runs/use what's on the shelf? Also, I had to re-bend one of the springy bits in one of the pair to get the thing to work. And concur on the magnets; do _not_ get your fingers between them unles you want to show your grandkids what a blood blister looks like. ;>)

Dunno if 2032s are rechargeable, but no explosions yet. Eventually I took them out to use in watches; ten minutes of light for a minute's shaking isn't too shabby.

I'd say "extremely distracting", but yeah. I used some self-sticky plumbing insulation foam on mine.

Kewl, but beware you don't kill the yellow LEDs with the extra voltage. Let us know.

Best I've done so far is take the lens out (better light spread) and bungee one loosely to my bike handlebars; shake as you go!

I s'pose one could remove the LED and install a small radio circuit, with the speaker at the business end? Hey, there's a "third world" product!

Mark L. Fergerson

Guess that's one I either just plain missed, or ignored because it was of zero interst at the time.

Dunno, but it teeters on the edge between "funny" and "pathetic". One thing for sure: I can understand why there is *ABSOLUTELY NO TRACE* of a "Who made this" statement on the box - They've *GOT* to be embarrassed about it. "Made in China" is the closest thing to a maker's mark to be found anywhere on either the packaging of the light itself.

Yep - The one I opened up needed the springy bit bent, and I'm also thinking I'm going to have to take a soldering iron to it - It acts like the soldered end has a cold joint - Mashing the end into contact with its opposite number doesn't always make it work, but "playing with" the soldered end while mashing the free end almost always convinces it that the switch is closed. Remelting the solder will likely turn the trick.

Izzat one of those "DAMHIKT" things? :)

And even if the rest of the unit is complete garbage, "two for five bucks" for lithium 2032s isn't exactly "astronomical" pricing - Especially not when even Wally-world is wanting 4+ bucks a pop for them, and some online places are saying they'll let you have one for $5.50 plus shipping.

I'm considering black electrical tape, but I'll probably go with my "first-instinct" - "spray-paint the entire inside of the outer shell with black Krylon."

Nah, not yellow LEDs - The case of the Streamlight unit is "Day-Glo yellow". It has 6 white LEDs mounted in the "business end", runs off of

I wanna hear more about the full wave "bride". Sounds like a hell of a deal to me.

O'course, the current wife ain't gonna be all that pleased with the deal.

{;-)

Jim

Put 'er in a "g"-string, and you'll have what I meant :)

Tell 'er to take a number :)

Reminds me of the story of the guy and his wife that were doing it doggy style...

he was sitting up begging and she was rolling over playing dead.

{;-)

Jim

Maybe someone will use the innards to power a miniature electronic oven.

You know...

--- Joe

Batteries are a 'what the buyer can bear' market. Not a matter of cost, but how much it is worth it to you to get your PDA of camera working again.

I'v recently seen prices of 1 euro for a card of 5 2032 and 1 euro for a card of 20 alkaline buttons in various sized, in 'dollar stores'.

As far as rechargables go, i'm less wary of special rechargable li battery packs for say a digital camera after finding

Thomas

Wait a minute! ;-) 5/8" long, and 9/16" diam? Isn't that kind of a squatty-looking cylinder? How does it not jam in its sleeve (or whatever you call the part it slides back and forth inside of)?

I'd think it would have a tendency to get canted, and bind, stick, or jam, like an uncooperative desk drawer. That apparently didn't happen. Anybody got any idea how?

Thanks! Rich

Okay, we've all already read about the shake lights. So I'm gonna go off here:

D'ya think some of us have had more (or less) practice than others at the particular hand motion that (presumably) recharges these things? ;-p

Me, Too!

But but but, I thought you said, "Full" wave. ;-P

Daddy, turn her over! I'd rather have a puppy!

Ack! Measurements listed bass-ackwards! It's a tad longer than its diameter, so make that 9/16" long by 5/8" diameter.

And me giggling at the Engrish on the box...

Oh, lord... That was *SO* wrong...

But I can't stop laughing at it! :)