Oh my aching joints!

[DavidH]

While I was shopping for urine enhancers

, I decided that I should get some some stuff to help my joints since I have had several knee injuries from skiing and playing hockey. As I was perusing the vitamin section at the store trying to decide which pills to get, it became obvious which ones to buy. Most of the packages showed some sort of picture of a red elbow or knee joint, this particular package emphasized that fact with a blinking red LED. Upon disassembling it, I found out that it is a 3mm red LED with a resistor and 3 wafer thin batteries on a small circuit board. It's still blinking away. I'm not sure how good it is for my joints yet, it's supposed to take 1-3 months to actually do anything.

 

[The_LED_Museum]

Urine enhancers?!?
What possible purpose could one achieve by "enhancing" their ****?!? Does it allow you to automatically clean your toilet every time you take a leak?

I have one of those flashing LED joint medication boxes. Another CPF'er sent it to me a couple of months back, and it's still blinking happily away. There's a 3mm transparent red LED over the "knee" part of the graphic, and inside is a PCB with 3 CR2032 lithium cells and presumably an IC. I haven't yet disassembled it or tried to rip it out of the package.

On the bottom of the box, it says:

SPECIAL PACKAGING: This package incorporates an
LED flashing light to bring attention to Flex-A-Min's
special formulation. This battery operated mechanism
is designed to operate for a limited time and may no
longer be flashing at the time of purchase.

 

[Saaby]

I don't know where mine is but my grandma got some of those on a recent trip and stopped by our house on the way home from the trip, she had the intelligence to save the LED blinker thing for me

what a nice grandma...

We had to do board games for school last year (ick ick ick I hated that teacher but lets not get started on that) and I used the thing in the box design. The game was called "The Iron curtain" I think and the LED was blinking as the dot of the "i" in curtain...

 

[DavidH]

Originally posted by The LED Museum:
Urine enhancers?!?
What possible purpose could one achieve by "enhancing" their ****?!? Does it allow you to automatically clean your toilet every time you take a leak?

I have one of those flashing LED joint medication boxes. Another CPF'er sent it to me a couple of months back, and it's still blinking happily away. There's a 3mm transparent red LED over the "knee" part of the graphic, and inside is a PCB with 3 CR2032 lithium cells and presumably an IC. I haven't yet disassembled it or tried to rip it out of the package.

On the bottom of the box, it says:

SPECIAL PACKAGING: This package incorporates an
LED flashing light to bring attention to Flex-A-Min's
special formulation. This battery operated mechanism
is designed to operate for a limited time and may no
longer be flashing at the time of purchase.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Hey, that's the brand I found!!!

"Urine enhancers" is a friend's term for vitamins. It's still up in the air whether they do you any good or not, but they do make you **** brighter yellow.

Who knows, maybe they're good for the toilet too.

 

[The_LED_Museum]

Originally posted by DavidH:
"Urine enhancers" is a friend's term for vitamins.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I've never heard that term before.

The specific vitamin responsible for "urine enhancement" is riboflavin, or vitamin B2. Turns your pee a brilliant fluorescent yellow.

A blinking red LED on a joint medication box won't do much here, but a blue-green, blue, or violet LED will make the contents of the bowl glow quite brightly if you've used the "**** enhancer" anytime that day.

 

[Hemingray]

I did a post-mortem on one of the "Flexamin" LED boards that quit blinking. The board is held in place with a blob or RTV, it covers the "blister" flasher "IC" on the rather crude phenolic board.
The three CR2032 cells are replaceable, they slide out easily, don't dump them in the toliet, lithium and water don't play well together...

The LED is a 3mm clear epoxy red, I suppose any
other color would work, though blue, true green or white may be dimmer. The three cells are in parallel, so if one dies prematurely, it will bring its companions down all that much faster.

The Flexamin seems to help my injured knee (blew out the tendon between quadrieps and kneecap last year). One can remove the LED board, and place it under an insulator, makes it look neat in the dark. Best with red/amber CD 219 Hemi-66.

/ed brown in NH