I remember when these things first appeared. They were so hyped up it was ridiculous.
The implication was that with a brief spell of shaking the flashlight would provide hours of light. And to be fair, you did kinda get hours of light if you regard a faint glow when you look directly into the end of it as "light".
James sent this light from the USA and sadly it's one of the many fakes that appeared when the Chinese manufacturers realised that the concept was so flawed that they might as well just fake it from the start. The real ones produce a visible pulse of light when shaken vigorously.
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The implication was that with a brief spell of shaking the flashlight would provide hours of light. And to be fair, you did kinda get hours of light if you regard a faint glow when you look directly into the end of it as "light".
James sent this light from the USA and sadly it's one of the many fakes that appeared when the Chinese manufacturers realised that the concept was so flawed that they might as well just fake it from the start. The real ones produce a visible pulse of light when shaken vigorously.
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This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
In 2016-2017 I had a version that looked pretty much exactly like this. The button was the only different thing. It also wasn't fake, it had a real and quite strong neodymium magnet in it which I harvested to use for other purposes. I was curious to see how effective these were and not much to my surprise it was ass. Pretty much verbatim of how you described the performance of the original ones. They're a fairly neat concept on paper nonetheless, even if they don't work as great when executed. Or at all when faked.
There are real ones, but theyre VERY RARE such as the nightstar which is almost out or 40-b which is bright but takes a lot of sahking although the nightstar is 79 dollars and 6 shipping the 40-b is 19 and 6 shipping
Yes, I still have mine, where it came from I don't know. The magnet is very strong, the batteries are lithium and it does work to a point. The internals have the raised text ' HOOFER '. Almost threw the darn thing out….!
about 5 years ago bought one i shook and shook every year it and shook more, it hardly went on for two seconds. it's somewhere, prolly at the dump. I thought mine was broken . thanks Clive!.
I have this exact flashlight. No idea where I got it from.
Dude, I got one of these as a piece of swag at Microsoft Mix conference in 2006.. I laughed my a** off when I looked closely and realized what a miserable fake it was :))
I have one of these. A friend got me one to add to my never-ending collection of flashlights. HOWEVER, it only works if I hold a magnet next to the switch with the switch in the 'ON' position. Can you tell me why that might be? I'm tempted to take it apart. But, knowing me, I'd end up ruining it. Thank you very much. for your time in putting these videos together. You're a pleasure to watch.
I suggest you fix one to each of the shock absorbers on your electric car , thus when you drive along the road the movement of the suspension will charge your battery. So increasing the performance of your car ! Another brilliant idea 😀
That’s such a bad product, thank you for this informative video, i now know what to look out for when getting one.
I had one of these which I kept around for emergencies, and it worked well enough if I neded maybe 5-10 minutes of light and I didn't mind giving it a good shake every now and then.
Some years ago I wanted one of these flashlights, thinking it would be handy for power outages. I did my due diligence and found out what was considered the best one at the time for a decent price, a "Excalibur Forever Flashlight Extreme". It has a magnet in it, bouncing off rubber bumpers, and charging a 5.5v capacitor (I can't see the value very well, my guess is 1uf) that at a glance looks like a chunky surface mount battery. It does work, but still had some slightly exaggerated claims. I think you'd end up with arms like Arnold Schwarzenegger to be able to get close to the times. lol Now, a cheap Rayovac 2 AA led flash light I have is much preferred, along with led candles. :p
Mine looks like yours but works
Over here in Australia there is a legit store known as Bunnings, I was surprised once when I bought a plastic rechargeable torch, it wasn't a shake version like yours, it instead had a little wheel you would wind. However when it's battery ran out, I tried to wind the wheel and I found that it ultimately didn't do anything, other than dull flickers on the LED. I opened it up and found that not only were the batteries not rechargeable, but the actual little winding dynamo thing wasn't even wired to the batteries at all, instead it was wired directly to the LED's, it would give a very short burst of light when you moved the wheel, but it wasn't charging any batteries and the product was clearly fraudulent. Another made in China no name product, I was shocked that Bunnings would agree to even ship that in and sell it in it's store. It was only a few dollars so of course I didn't care, but it made me view Bunnings as now being a place of potential Chinese fraud products.
I bought one and it had two regular watch batteries in it. The coil wires weren't connected to anything.
WHAT A SCAM!!
We owe ya for that one China. 😠
Careful you don't hold this backwards while shaking, or you will be going
i want it goood quality
can u put link to buy the big one pls