SE Camping Light - 24 LED

Price : $4.37

Product Description

Super Bright 24 LED Camping Light. White Color, With Hanging Hook, Diameter 5½ in., Middle Hole Diameter 1½ in., Requires 4AA Batteries (Batteries Not Included.)

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000OP1AJ6
• Item model number: Generic
  

Technical Details

• Super Bright 24 LED Camping Light
• White Color, With Hanging Hook
• Diameter 5½", Middle Hole Diameter 1½"
• Requires 4AA Batteries (Batteries Not Included.)

 

SE Camping Light - 24 LED

 

Customer Reviews

I bought a pair of these to hang over my desk where I work as it is a little darker than I was used to. One of them came to me with the leads connecting the power switch to the batteries that I had to solder back together. The mechanism to lock the bottom and top was flaky at best. One fell onto my desk when I shut it off, sending batteries and battery holders flying, rendering that lamp useless. The other one followed suit about 4 days later.
Pros:
- Cheap and bright
Cons:
- Not so good construction, locking mechanism was hit or miss
Other Thoughts:
- I got 24 super bright LEDs for my project...

First off this WOULD be a great light.. I've had one for a while and hadn't noticed a problem with it, thought they were great little light sources, so I bought two more. Put batteries in them and turned them on. One of them came on for about 5 seconds and went back off. I opened it back up to check it out and make sure there wasn't a broken wire of bad solder joint. I didn't notice anything right off so I turned it back on and it started smoking. The reisitor inside was laying on one of the wires and had lead on the end of the resistor had got hot enough that it melted the insulation on the wire and caused it to short out. I seperated the two leads and the light came back on, but the resisitor was still hot enough that it was smoking and scourching the plastic to a burnt brown.
I thought maybe it was a quirk with this one and that the resisitor as perhaps the wrong, but when I opened up the other two lights they also show signs of the resistor heating up enough to melt the plastic. Not sure of the resistance, but they are 1/2 watt resistors and the problem could be corrected by swapping the resistors out to a larger 1 watt resistor.
As the units stand now they could very well cause a fire if used for prolonged periods and it were laying against something combustable.