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Forever Last Battery-Free Flashlights Set of 2

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Forever Last Battery-Free Flashlights Set of 2 $20 at Overstock
 
Discuss (18) : History : Tell : Posted 4:30 PM PST 11/26/09 by Ben
Forever Last Battery-Free Flashlights Set of 2Overstock has the Forever Last Battery-Free Flashlights (Set of 2) for $20 + $0 shipping = $20 shipped. Shake flashlight for 60 seconds and you'll have up to 100 minutes of continuous bright light, Waterproof and floats. [Compare]
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#1   drivingrain27 - Posted 4:31 pm PST 11/26/09 (40 Posts)
Word on the street is that these are total BS. No one should buy them.
#2   wx7917 - Posted 4:32 pm PST 11/26/09 (50 Posts)
lol word on the street
#3   amphibole - Posted 5:22 pm PST 11/26/09 (54 Posts)
True that they're BS. I have one that I picked up at a flea market, and it definitely does have batteries... little button cells. The wires in the "shake" part aren't connected to anything and is all show. They just count on the batteries outlasting you, which it might with the LEDs.
#4   Frederico - Posted 6:06 pm PST 11/26/09 (572 Posts)
AVOID! Ben is trying to screw you up the ass. There is not a single "Bargain" on this site right now.

And #5, Ben relies on perversion to attract his clientele. That's why you're here, right?
#5   Technician - Posted 6:07 pm PST 11/26/09 (188 Posts)
Thank you number four. I was concerned the perversion had taken a holiday.
#6   btc909 - Posted 6:43 pm PST 11/26/09 (1253 Posts)
It's the worthless jackoff flashlight. If you thought those crank / wind up flashlights were bad, this is even worse.
#7   dave_c - Posted 6:45 pm PST 11/26/09 (8065 Posts)
Bit of a contradiction there #4, if you're here for perversion then what's wrong with ass screwing waterproof flashlight butt plugs?
#8   X_Specter_X - Posted 6:56 pm PST 11/26/09 (97 Posts)
they are a scam. they have 2 small batteries. The led barely puts out any light. Mine died. I smashed it open and got the magnet out... which was very strong. so if you have one that dies, be sure to get the magnet out.
#9   doesgof - Posted 8:18 pm PST 11/26/09 (441 Posts)
eh? a scam? total bs??? the technology isn't voodoo and those "batteries" aren't batteries, theyre called capacitors. when a magnet passes through a wound coil, an ac pulse is generated for each pass. then a full wave bridge rectifier is used to convert the ac to dc which then gets stored in the capacitor(s). This is actually simple physics!
wtf is taught in schools these days?
#10   goldenboyfx - Posted 8:56 pm PST 11/26/09 (1128 Posts)
Well said #9 but that doesn't take away the fact that these flashlights are $hite.
#11   Chrisman - Posted 9:12 pm PST 11/26/09 (2714 Posts)
#9, I knocked your books out of your hand in high school, didn't I??
#12   Technogeek - Posted 9:52 pm PST 11/26/09 (214 Posts)
#9 is correct on the technology part, but everyone else is correct in saying these flashlights are a piece of shit...
I own one.. Now if no one buys this, we are all in the right.
#13   dave_c - Posted 10:00 pm PST 11/26/09 (8065 Posts)
#9, that the tech exists to make a shake flashlight, you miss two factors:

1) Even the real shake flashlights suck, ridiculous effort for short barely there light.

2) There are in fact fakes with batteries, not capacitors in them and some are as described where the coil wire doesn't even connect to anything, the batteries are primary cells that don't recharge at all. In theory, if there were some with rechargeable batteries that were recharged by the coil then at least that would be the most desirable way to make a sucky flashlight like this, as even ultracapacitors that small couldn't continually power LEDs for very long at a light level enough to see anything by.

I do think these are real rather than fake, but it wouldn't stop me from throwing them away if given to me for free, anyone in the first second or third world has had enough exposure to average flashlights that they see this as little more than a toy.
#14   gr33ncl0wn - Posted 10:18 pm PST 11/26/09 (19 Posts)
The only legit shake LED flashlights I've found online were the ones from compupartsforless.

I've purchased many of these bad boys and in conclusion the ones I bought from http://www.compupartsforless.com/ where the most efficient. They were relativity cheap as well.

http://www.compupartsforless.com/

These guys also got a separate link for wholesale prices which im looking into, these are rather profitable.
#15   dave_c - Posted 12:26 am PST 11/27/09 (8065 Posts)
clown if you want to make a buck reselling bulk, skip the middle man and go for the China & Hong Kong direct 'site listings. You'll have to make a larger investment but should get them quite a bit cheaper (but really, why not import something decent instead?).
#16   RKLE - Posted 5:50 am PST 11/27/09 (7705 Posts)
you have to shake these things for hours to get them to last 5 min.
#17   Crazyapple - Posted 8:13 am PST 11/27/09 (69 Posts)
Got one of these as a promo... it does work but it's ridiculously little light for the amount of shaking required. I thought it was broken, then shook it for most of a drive home one day, when I got home it worked. Held the charge overnight but not to the end of the next day.

I keep it in my car. If I ever have an emergency where extremely dim light is needed 60 seconds after I decide it's needed, I'm all set.
#18   stolenlove - Posted 8:36 am PST 11/27/09 (3 Posts)
good one
 
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