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

I got a few such flashlights fitting the description so far, and bought them for $1.99 at a dollar store.

But after that - mine appear to be even worse than described by Don Bruder!

In the ones I bought, the coil leads were shorted together, the magnet clearly existed but as a clearly fake magnet that was clearly a non-magnet, and the flashlight had CR2016 batteries, which I believe is a non-rechargeable type.

However, true and truly-working-as-advetized shake-to-recharge flashlights are out there.

As an example:

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

DK> I got a few such flashlights fitting the description so far, DK> and bought them for $1.99 at a dollar store. DK> But after that - mine appear to be even worse than described DK> by Don Bruder! DK> In the ones I bought, the coil leads were shorted together, DK> the magnet clearly existed but as a clearly fake magnet that DK> was clearly a non-magnet, and the flashlight had CR2016 DK> batteries, which I believe is a non-rechargeable type.

That's bizarre -- you'd think that the added cost of all that non-functional crap, _plus_ the batteries and light, would exceed the cost of really doing it. Hrmph. China. Go figure.

d.

Some of us have wives and/or girlfriends.

Mark L. Fergerson

Check again, ametricer.

English

What do you mean almost?? Birds, whales, and toddlers have a better grasp of speech than most Asians. (Don, don't say "have got" or "off of".) But the Chinese can't gut anything; they are given more rope to strangle themselves: , , .

-Aut Jesus was touching children long before priests were:

Hold on a minute,it gets better.. A guy on a forum bought 200 of the things.. They were powered off of the lithium coin cells inside.. They had the coil,but the leads didn't connect to anything,and the "magnets" were just a slug of non-magnetic pot-metal type stuff.. No PCB,diodes,or anything.

He noticed cause the one he was using went dead,and shaking it didn't do anything.He took apart 4-5 of them,and they were all the same!