Couple interesting Vector lights at target.

[FluffyGrunt]

Was just browsing around the flashlight section in Target 3 relatively cheap products by Vector caught my eye. One was a small keychain led light that looked like a fish for $5. Second was a lil white globe about the size of a baseball that has an led inside that glows when you squeeze it and shuts off with a second squeeze, it also came with an ac powerpack for charging. It claims to last for 6 hours per charge, it was $20. Third thing I saw was a little keychain laser pointer for $10. It ran on 3 LR-44 batteries and was 650nm. (Maybe someone can explain what this rating means?)
There were also a number of $20-$60 rechargeable and battery powered indoor/outdoor tablelamps but I didn't look too closely at them, and here I thought Vector only made spotlights.

Oh one more thing they had some keychain lights called Ultra Neo-glow that looked pretty nifty for only $5. (white,red,blue, and green leds) I escaped today without buying anything but that little laser pointer was tempting, guess I'll be headed back to Target in a couple days.

 

[prn]

TheFlashlight wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Third thing I saw was a little keychain laser pointer for $10. It ran on 3 LR-44 batteries and was 650nm. (Maybe someone can explain what this rating means?)
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It isn't a rating, it's a color. It's the wavelength of the light that it puts out. 650nm is in the red part of the spectrum.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Oh one more thing they had some keychain lights called Ultra Neo-glow that looked pretty nifty for only $5. (white,red,blue, and green leds) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Those aren't too bad. Nice for cheap giveaways and such. Keep a couple handy for that. They're not as bright as Photons and they run on a funky battery size. (I think it's 1616.) Still, they're nice to give out like candy.

Maybe create some more flashaholics as people start to realize how nice it can be to have a light around all the time.

Paul

 

[The_LED_Museum]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by prn:
TheFlashlight wrote:
Those aren't too bad. Nice for cheap giveaways and such. Keep a couple handy for that. They're not as bright as Photons and they run on a funky battery size. (I think it's 1616<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I found these in red and royal blue at Office Depot for $3.99 apiece while I was buying a Double Barrel to ship overseas. I just took apart the blue one, and it does use two CR1616 coin cells ($3 apiece at Radio Shack) and one of the screws is already stripped out.

Let me disembowel the red one and see what kind of battery it uses... the red uses a single CR1616 and a cardboard disc as a spacer or dummy cell so as to prevent rattling.

The writing on the package reads, "The brightest, most powerful keychain light available featuring Super-Bright High Intensity LED technology."
HORSE PUCKEY!!

They look really cool on the outside, but the brightness sucks and they use "rare" batteries. The buttons on both units I purchased are also hard to activate. So I concur with the majority: they're fine as a freebie but they are status non gratis on a true flashaholic's keyring.