Chris M.
Flashlight Enthusiast
I visited my local favorite lighting shop today and picked up a few things including this little one:
Anyone seen these before? They`re very small keychain LEDs running from three little tiny AG3 button cells. Looks quite nice but close-up you notice this isn`t a premium product. Despite this there`s interesting stuff inside. Not just your average squeeze light, but rather electronically controlled with a momentary microswitch á lá cheapy laser pointers. One click sets it blinking with fairly short flashes, another click sets it blinking faster, a third click switches to constant-on and a fourth click goes off again.
The LED is an attractive and fairly bright blue colour, possibly hence the name Out of the Blue which was on a label on the outer sleeve of the case, but isn`t printed anywhere else. A web site address http://www.ootb.de is also printed on there - and apparently they are a supplier of novelty items so it would appear this is not actually the name of this little one. Appropriate though if it was.
Not the greatest quality and the tiny AG3 cells aren`t going to last long but for £3.90 (about $6) which is cheap for things like this here in the UK, especially considering there`s a set of spare batteries supplied too, certainly not bad at all and certainly quite useful even if the fixed sequence of modes can be a bit cumbersome if all you want is some steady light for a few moments.
It`s just nice to see fun LED products becoming more mainstream here and not just the things of oddball internet specialist stores.
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Anyone seen these before? They`re very small keychain LEDs running from three little tiny AG3 button cells. Looks quite nice but close-up you notice this isn`t a premium product. Despite this there`s interesting stuff inside. Not just your average squeeze light, but rather electronically controlled with a momentary microswitch á lá cheapy laser pointers. One click sets it blinking with fairly short flashes, another click sets it blinking faster, a third click switches to constant-on and a fourth click goes off again.
The LED is an attractive and fairly bright blue colour, possibly hence the name Out of the Blue which was on a label on the outer sleeve of the case, but isn`t printed anywhere else. A web site address http://www.ootb.de is also printed on there - and apparently they are a supplier of novelty items so it would appear this is not actually the name of this little one. Appropriate though if it was.
Not the greatest quality and the tiny AG3 cells aren`t going to last long but for £3.90 (about $6) which is cheap for things like this here in the UK, especially considering there`s a set of spare batteries supplied too, certainly not bad at all and certainly quite useful even if the fixed sequence of modes can be a bit cumbersome if all you want is some steady light for a few moments.
It`s just nice to see fun LED products becoming more mainstream here and not just the things of oddball internet specialist stores.
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