Electronic candle review
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ceagleI've been exploring different flameless, battery-powered candles, both for aesthetic accent, and to reduce the need for turning on the main electricity-sucking light bulbs as often. From this journey, I've picked up at least 4 different brands of them, and they vary widely as to performance 8| ... It's not like paper clips or t-shirts, where most of them are mostly the same.
The first one was a 3 inch tall one from Amazon branded lamplust.com .. haha.. but this has been the best so far! It's amazingly made of REAL wax, has one of the most convincing flickers, and uses two C size batteries for the longest endurance. All of the candles I'm mentioning have a timer, and this one has the either "ON" or 6 hour timer option. The only problem with real wax is that one of them did get a bit of a dent on the bottom when, being so waxy, it slipped out of my wing.
The next was a candlestick style made by General Electric, which uses two AA batteries. This I found at Big Lots and it has the worst of all the flickers. It also only has a 5 hour timer option (no purely ON only switch). The flicker is more like a strobe, so I don't like it at all. I took the unopened one back to the store for a refund, and put the opened one outside in a vase, so it looks sort-of ok to passers by.
I got several other plastic candlestick style ones from LampLust also, and while being nearly identical to the G.E. one, the flicker is much better, though not as convincing as the wax one, but sufficient. These are also timer-only.
The 3rd foray into these was at Target, a brand named inglowflamelesscandles.com The site says they have the real wax ones also, but the Target store ones were not, even though they looked near identical to the LampLust ones. Commendably, they also have a very convincing flicker too, though they cost 3 or 4 dollars cheaper than the real wax ones. They use three AAA batteries, so supposedly that will be less duration than the C size ones, however it's nice to know there's a place where I can just go pick these up if needed, rather than wait via online ordering and shipping. They also have the "ON" or 5 hour timer options.
The last try at these was at WalMart, via the Westinghouse brand. These were 3 in-a-box for the price of one of the LampLust ones. Alas, the flicker in these is marginally tolerable, though not as bad as the G.E. ones. It also uses AAA batteries again. I do find it odd that the most well-known established brands (Westinghouse and General Electric) made the absolute worst flicker circuits in this study ;P However this particular circuit has the most options, oddly enough, in timer settings. You can switch it fully "ON" or use the Variable Timer to get them to run for an hour or up to 23 hours at a time. Too bad the effect is rather lame, but at least it's passable.
Given a choice, I'll be getting the LampLust or InGlow Target ones if I do get any more, though I think I've got enough to keep the ambiance going for a while :> *tailwags*
The first one was a 3 inch tall one from Amazon branded lamplust.com .. haha.. but this has been the best so far! It's amazingly made of REAL wax, has one of the most convincing flickers, and uses two C size batteries for the longest endurance. All of the candles I'm mentioning have a timer, and this one has the either "ON" or 6 hour timer option. The only problem with real wax is that one of them did get a bit of a dent on the bottom when, being so waxy, it slipped out of my wing.
The next was a candlestick style made by General Electric, which uses two AA batteries. This I found at Big Lots and it has the worst of all the flickers. It also only has a 5 hour timer option (no purely ON only switch). The flicker is more like a strobe, so I don't like it at all. I took the unopened one back to the store for a refund, and put the opened one outside in a vase, so it looks sort-of ok to passers by.
I got several other plastic candlestick style ones from LampLust also, and while being nearly identical to the G.E. one, the flicker is much better, though not as convincing as the wax one, but sufficient. These are also timer-only.
The 3rd foray into these was at Target, a brand named inglowflamelesscandles.com The site says they have the real wax ones also, but the Target store ones were not, even though they looked near identical to the LampLust ones. Commendably, they also have a very convincing flicker too, though they cost 3 or 4 dollars cheaper than the real wax ones. They use three AAA batteries, so supposedly that will be less duration than the C size ones, however it's nice to know there's a place where I can just go pick these up if needed, rather than wait via online ordering and shipping. They also have the "ON" or 5 hour timer options.
The last try at these was at WalMart, via the Westinghouse brand. These were 3 in-a-box for the price of one of the LampLust ones. Alas, the flicker in these is marginally tolerable, though not as bad as the G.E. ones. It also uses AAA batteries again. I do find it odd that the most well-known established brands (Westinghouse and General Electric) made the absolute worst flicker circuits in this study ;P However this particular circuit has the most options, oddly enough, in timer settings. You can switch it fully "ON" or use the Variable Timer to get them to run for an hour or up to 23 hours at a time. Too bad the effect is rather lame, but at least it's passable.
Given a choice, I'll be getting the LampLust or InGlow Target ones if I do get any more, though I think I've got enough to keep the ambiance going for a while :> *tailwags*
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Date: 2013-04-22 02:25 am (UTC)The one in my bathroom (which I presume to be that one) is almost dead, now. It comes on weakly, at the beginning of the night, flickers for a half hour or so, then stops and goes dark. After a bit, it'll restart, but the light is extremely dim. It brightens and dims sporadically. At the dimmest part of the cycle, you can only see it in complete darkness. Oddly enough, it keeps its timing cycle. I'm interested to see how that eventually fails, so I'm leaving it sit.
The other one in my bedroom, which probably had the new batteries, is noticably dimmer, but otherwise continues to work as normal.
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Date: 2013-04-19 07:09 am (UTC)The differences in what I'm looking for: not-wax, but wax-appearing (gets too hot around here for real wax); daily timer (24 hour); AC cord/plug. I'd like to have something I can put on my front porch that looks like a real candle, is fairly large and won't melt. Plus, cord: so that it will just go on every night. If you come across something like this-- let me know!
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Date: 2013-04-20 06:26 am (UTC)Hey btw... did you get my text a couple weeks ago about the puppet exhibition? (now past)
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