I get the feeling that the ebay seller listing these had just copied chunks of text from a listing for the small clear underwater LED candles. Despite the listing it isn't the slightest bit waterproof, and doesn't actually even flicker.
Other than that it's actually quite well made. It uses two decent sized AAA cells, has a novel switching method where you just press the flame down to turn it on and off, and the complete lack of flickering of the very evenly lit plastic flame is actually a good result.
The candle should be easy enough to hack your own colour choice of LED into, although note that it just has 2 cells, so will not run blue, green or white LEDs very brightly. It uses a straw hat style 4.8mm LED.
Other than that it's actually quite well made. It uses two decent sized AAA cells, has a novel switching method where you just press the flame down to turn it on and off, and the complete lack of flickering of the very evenly lit plastic flame is actually a good result.
The candle should be easy enough to hack your own colour choice of LED into, although note that it just has 2 cells, so will not run blue, green or white LEDs very brightly. It uses a straw hat style 4.8mm LED.
Ultra bright, flickering and waterproof LED candle that's neither waterproof, flickering or particularly bright. Oh Ebay, sometimes you have gems, sometimes you have lemons.
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Is the sleeve closed at the bottom end? If so, you could stand it upright in a vase full of flowers and the inch or so of water at the bottom of the vase wouldn't get in.
That's so easy to do on ebay, messing up listings like that. It's not just a chinese cheap seller thing, it's just they don't bother to fix the mistake :)… 99p is a bargain price for something like that. Mum's church are after something safe for the kids to carry around (health n safety n all that). Might be worth a look!
[Edit] maybe it flickers after a few hrs under water when the electrolytic action has corroded the battery terminals?