Fake shake light: mental stimulation
Mods: I did a search on Shake lights, Faraday etc. and did not find this.
Please move or delete as appropriate.
Do you or someone you know have a Shake flashlight?
Is it a Fraud?
Now if you don't mind spending $3-$20 on a 30 cent fake that has difficult or impossible to replace batteries then this post is probably not for you.
The units are sometimes incomplete with no magnet, no connections, empty circuit board, etc… so that shaking the unit till the cows come home will not add one minuscule bit of power…
Then again maybe you have a great affinity to quickly moving your hand back and forth…;)
If you were like me you thought it was as advertised and relied on only the Faraday principle and muscle to activate. Not batteries.
I have one that is a genuine Faraday and one that is a Fake light.
How do you tell?
Here are a couple sites I found regarding:
http://home.eznet.net/~d12345/scam/
http://www.datcp.state.wi.us/press_r....jsp?prid=1865
http://reviews.ebay.com/Forever-flas...00000001565388
http://www.flashlightreviews.com/features/fff.htm
http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php...r&item_id=1510
http://www.flashlightcenter.com/
http://www.shake-flashlights.com/faq.html
My personal favorite review because of what the person advocates you do with the product:
http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/fifth/shakefl1.htm
The fake light is not a total loss at least in my case because I only paid $3 and am now using the parts for another project.
Good luck with yours.
I hope there are not a lot of people relaying on these if an emergency hits.
Sadly I see a vision of someone sitting in the dark quickly shaking the unit with about the same impact as if they had themselves in their hand.
Well I guess at some point a light will come on.
