Whoops! (cheap lights aren't always good..)

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

I have a 3aaa 14LED light that now has 10 LEDs working.

I was using it to read, and it kept making me think it had an oval beam.

In a way it did!

At least I didn't pay much for it!

 

[Monocrom]

Yeah, you generally get what you pay for when it comes to lights. I have a few cheap lights I keep around the house. (Got a Made-In-China, No-Name, 9-LED light on my computer desk. It works well. Only paid a few bucks for it. Not gonna get too upset if it stops working).

 

[mmmflashlights]

This is what you get for bragging about your Dollar Store lights that no one else can find. The good thing about these cheap 5mm cluster lights is that they're usually very simply designed with a simple board to solder the LEDs to. Even the relatively dim LEDs such as those sold from DX will probably be an upgrade from the LEDs currently in the light, so it's a good excuse to 'upgrade' the LEDs anyway.

 

[s002cjs]

I've got something similar! A while back an online store had a 'mystery box' implying it was surplus stuff which they normally sold. Turned out they'd just bought a bunch of cheap imported junk that had nothing to do with their normal merchandise, and one item turned out to be a 9-LED light with batteries!

Many people reported that their batteries had leaked before they even got it. Mine hadn't leaked, but the LED quality is so poor, only about half light up, and some of them sort of weakly flicker. My other 9-LEDs from DealExtreme look just about identical but actually WORK.

 

[batvette]

Usually the only time to be really happy about a light being cheap is when you lose it or it breaks, and that is a sorry way to go through life.