UV LED Pocketlight for only $5.00

[Chas]

OK folks - I promise this is the last time I'm letting you know about this light. I just got some and tomorrow I'm ordering 10 more of them. I have the Photon UV and this one I think is much better and a whole lot cheaper - County Comm. They also have Blue, Red ,($2.00 each - but you have to get 10) and White ($3.00 each - but you need to buy 10). Please hold off on buying the UV till Saturday so I can get my 10 ($40.00). "Most of the light produced by the UV Pocket Light is just outside the visible spectrum (Aprox 370nm)" Just checked the competition - Model I is $37.95 and Model 3 is $45.95. Remember to wait till I get mine.

Best Regards,

 

[vcal]

Ok Chas,

But would you mind selling me 1 or 2 of those when you get them? 370nm!

 

[Joshua]

Don't bother. These lights do not produce 370nm. They are rip offs. There product description is WORD for WORD of LRI Photon UV page. http://photonlight.com . I e-mailed the website owner about this false advertising 4 days ago and he had no idea. It seems the crapy folks over at CLUBLED sold them these lights and have lied to County Comm. And it was ClubLED (or is it LEDCLUB) that gave them the description! S yeah they lied. The owner says he is going to change the description to 400nm-405nm. So basicly CHAS, you just bought a but load of 405nm flashlights. It's OK, but nothing to get wet over Im afraid...
Sorry.

 

[Joshua]

E-mail message

From: [email protected] Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2002, 2:14pm (CDT-2) To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: UV leds
Your email was just brought to my
attention. The specifications are
supplied by the manufacturer as well as
the text used on our web site. I have a
call into the manufacturer to clearify
this situation. I do know that we have
sold several hundred to a law enforcement supply house who has been selling them to LAPD with great sucess. Thank you for
bringing this to my attention. Frank
Layton

 

[Threepio]

I don't know if it's the same thing or not, but I just bought a UV/Violet Photon lookalike at the Los Angeles County Fair, for $7.00. It looks like a Photon in a white translucent case, but no markings or manufacturer shown. It puts out a dim violet light with a lot of UV mixed in. He had a bunch of other LED lights and flashlights, too... Bob

 

[[email protected]]

This discussion is over. We have removed them from the site until the wave length can be determined. I guess all $5.00 UV LEDs are not equal. Anyone that purchased these from us and is not happy with them is welcome to return them. I WILL REFUND YOUR MONEY TWICE (double your money back)AND COVER SHIPPING. We stand behind our products and our reputation. Frank Layton, [email protected]
For those of you who wanted to see the cheap UV lights that caused the discussion, here is the link: http://www.countycomm.com/light10.htm

 

[The_LED_Museum]

You know, if you send me one I can tell you the peak wavelength within a nanometer or two without even having to run it through my spectrometer, and may even be able to tell you who made the chip. That will answer the question once and for all.

 

[Chas]

GEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ what a way to get a show going. Let me tell you folks I'm a bargain hunter (maximum bang for the $$$$).

The UV LED Pocketlight (the $5.00 one) works for what I want it to do. It lights up the strip embedded in US green backs - It makes the Maraglo (Luminova) in my SAR Watch light up like a Christmas tree - But what I really like is it makes my invisible ink really glow. (Click on Products - then click on refills - then do drop down under ink colors for invisible). And it does it better than any of the other UV pocketlights I have. Why - D--N if I know.

Craig - one is in the mail to you (LED Museum) Saturday morning (09-21-02)(via Priority Mail)- please keep it and add it to the GREAT collection you have going. And let us all know what it proves out to be.

Also - I owe Frank at CountyComm a big apology for this, but I know Craig will try what I've mentioned and some other good tricks he has up his sleeves and let the chips land as they may.

Remember it does what I wanted to.

Best Regards,

 

[Joshua]

I agree that Frank had NO idea about this problem. Let me make that clear. He is a VERY nice individual and was aparently lied to by the people that sold him this batch of LEDs. This in no way implies that CountyComm is responsable for the false advertising. THEY HAD NO IDEA! I hope Craig can clarify this situation. I mearly wrote Frank to warn him off his product descrition and that LRI dosen't take too kindly to word for word copies of there products. That and the fact I have YET to come across a 370nm LED IN A CASE for $5.00. This is the end of thread. : )
P.S. Frank seems like a REAL upstanding guy!

 

[The_LED_Museum]

Originally posted by Joshua:
I hope Craig can clarify this situation. I mearly wrote Frank to warn him off his product descrition and that LRI dosen't take too kindly to word for word copies of there products. That and the fact I have YET to come across a 370nm LED IN A CASE for $5.00.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I'll get to the bottom of this. I'll be able to determine the peak wavelength and maybe the chip supplier; and if the cases aren't a complete ripoff of the Photon, I'll even review these on my website.

 

[Chas]

Craig,

The mystery UV LED Pocketlight is in the mail to you as of 11:35am Saturday - 09-21-02 via Priority Mail w/ Delivery Confirmation.

Best Regards,

CHAS

 

[Wingerr]

What batteries are used in the mystery lights? 2016's x2?

 

[The_LED_Museum]

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Wingerr said:
What batteries are used in the mystery lights? 2016's x2?


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Yup!!!
These lights are approximately Photon II or III sized (well, maybe a hair longer), and feed from a pair of CR2016 lithium coin cells. The beam is approximately 15° wide, and the approximate wavelength is 405nm in the deep violet part of the spectrum. The case color in the samples I have is a translucent purple.

These lights are squeeze-only, and do not have a switch for steady-on like the Photon II. Squeeze them to get light, and quit squeezing them to get dark. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I don't have a battery life test done yet, because I don't have anything to keep the light squeezed on, but I'd expect them to perform like any other DD (Direct Drive) LED flashlight that uses the same kind of batteries. Does OK for intermittent use, but probably sucks if kept on continuously.

 

[Wingerr]

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The LED Museum said:
Yup!!!
These lights are approximately Photon II or III sized (well, maybe a hair longer), and feed from a pair of CR2016 lithium coin cells. The beam is approximately 15° wide, and the approximate wavelength is 405nm in the deep violet part of the spectrum. The case color in the samples I have is a translucent purple.


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Cool- I've got one coming on the way to play with- despite the description on the site saying it's "not a toy!" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Should be fun-

 

[bushcamp]

Electrolumens has been selling some uv keychain lights for $2.99. Unfortunately he's temporarily out of stock or else I would have order two more. He advertises them to be 390nm. I'm not sure but I think Craig reviewed these lights obtained from a different vendor. Anyway, the one I got from Wayne is excellent. I use mine for firing up the luminous dial on my cruising compass. Back when I was a young pup, we'ld cruise timber or whatever until nightfall and then compass out in the dark. Our cruising (forestry) compasses in those days must have had radioactively luminous dials because they didn't need charging. Whatever the manufacturers were using probably was a lot more potent than tritium and probably a lot more hazardous. But, for whatever reason, the manufacturers now days use a phosphorescent coating which needs frequent charging from an external light source (unless a person wants to buy one of the larger military compasses). Anyway, I use Wayne's uv keychain light for that purposes and it works much better than an incandescent light. (A white led light doesn't seem to work at all.) From now on, this uv light goes whenever my forestry compass goes.