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[conradelektro]

Go on pull it apart.  Get a hacksaw. Please do it. post a paypal address or something we can all chip in $5 for a tear down.    I am still betting it is a magnesium crystal battery and a Li-ion battery and a joule thief.

In my opinion (or my guess) it is chemistry. There is

- either a known battery chemistry, just in a big enough quantity to last at least a year (with 3 hours use per day),

- or a modified known battery chemistry which has an upper limit of chemical reaction per hour. So, after 12 hours of use one chemical component is deplete and has to be slowly built up again (from crystals or electrodes) within 7 to 14 days. The main factor for "re-saturation" will of course be temperature, so, in a hot environment it will be seven days and in colder climates 14 days or even never.

- To make the power consumption of the LEDs as low as possible there is a "Joule Thief type circuit" (pulsed operation of the LEDs with a rather short On-Time). I estimate, that 0.5 mA per LED on average, with ten LEDs 5 mA on average at 1.2 Volt is sufficient for decent (but not really bright) light.


The big "miracle flash light" can contain plenty of chemistry for that:

3 hours per day is 1095 hours per year

1095 x 0.005 = 5,475 Ampere hours (at 1.2 Volt) per year

I have AA rechargeable batteries with 2.4 Ampere hours at 1.2 Volt. At least 6 of them would fit into the miracle flash light. Alkaline AA batteries have a even higher capacity than 2.4 Ampere hours. So, it would take just 2 of these good alkaline AA batteries.

The trick is the 3 hours per day.


If you calculate 12 hours every week:

12 x 52 = only 624 hours per year
624 x 0.005 = 3.12 Ampere hours (at 1.2 Volt) per year

So it would take two of my 2.4 Ampere hour AA batteries or just one of the good alkaline AA batteries.


Now you can increase the spent power (the brightness of the LEDs) by adding AA batteries: 6, 9 even 12 would fit into the "miracle flash light" if you just fill in the chemistry (without the housings).


My verdict:

Good standard battery chemistry and a Joule Thief type circuit (short pulses to the LEDs) gives you 3 hours a day for at least one year or 12 hours every week for at least one year.

I can believe that two years might be possible. And because people use flash lights only occasionally the "miracle flash light" indeed lasts forever (if forever is five years). In a world of consumerism, five years of use is indeed forever. (Most people do not use their car longer than five years and get a new cell phone every year. A flash light will be forgotten in some drawer after five years.) After five years you can not sue anybody if the thing starts to fail.

There might be patient and knowledgeable people who will bring the "miracle flash light" down by really rigorous testing, but who will listen to them? The miracle firm can obtain hundreds of positive reviews from occasional-laymen-users.

Even if you cut it open and you find the chemistry in it, the miracle firm can claim it were a "miracle chemistry" which is "replenished" by magnetism and electromagnetic radiation or by the sun. Do you have access to a gas chromatograph to exactly determine the type of chemistry? Whatever you do, they can keep up the scam because the flash light does what is does forever (which is five years for all practical purpose).

I love this scam, these scammers are much more clever than I ever was and will ever be.

@TheCell: Please publish the exact measurements (up to the millimetre) of the miracle flash light so that I can calculate its volume and compare it with the volume of an AA battery (how many AA batteries fit into the miracle flash light volume wise without the housings?). I will go to the stores to read off the Ampere hours of good Alkaline AA or bigger batteries just to have good data. Not all batteries have the Ampere houres printed on them but in some stores they have many brands and some might show this information.

@TheCell: if it is not too much trouble you could buy a cheapo LED-flash light in a store (3.-- to 5.-- Dollars) in order to visually compare its brightness to the miracle flash light. Do the comparison at night by switching them on alternatively. Your eye will adjust within seconds and perceive the same brightness, but you can see if one looks brighter only very shortly after switching to it. It is also good to shine them at a wall three meters away. This gives you a better brightness perception because you are seeing the reflected light, which is much lower than direct light. My Joule Thief lamps are easily out-performed at the "wall test" by cheapo LED flash lights.

@MileHigh: well, this is not a difficult miracle but an excellent scam (if we give points to scams disregarding morality). But the scam might be even dumber, there could as well be three ordinary Alkaline AA batteries in the aluminium housing, or a little bit thicker Alkaline batteries as available in the stores. The marketing with the slick aluminium housing is also great. Even the cell phone manufacturers sell "metal housing" as a quality feature. Still, this scam can not haul in real big money. How many can they sell? If they sell 10.000.-- and they are at least 5 people, it would be at most 200.000.-- per person. Good enough, but not a life changer. Income tax would also eat a lot away. As I said, the real good scams are not in "technology", they provide intangible goods which cost exactly nothing (hot air coming out of a mouth). Every lawyer worth his money runs a more profitable scam for decades (with 200.000.-- before tax per year or more).

Greetings, Conrad

P.S.: Energizer Alkaline AA Battery gives you about 2.5 Ah at about 1.2 Volt average (1.6 Volt down to 1.0 Volt over time, 25 hours at 100 mA power draw)

[TinselKoala]

Ordered Sept.1 2015 and delivered around Feb. 1 2016? 5 months wait time? Most people would have asked for their money back well before this. But congratulations, you received something after all.

If you have the right equipment (a phototransistor and an oscilloscope) you could at least tell if the LED is being pulsed, as by a JT circuit, without opening it or voiding your warranty.

[txt]

I have found a hilarious video of a Russian guy who received his ELFE flashlight already at the end of November, and took it apart. All he found inside were 3 AA rechargeable batteries. No coils, no antennas, no electronics, just the LED. Additionally, the case is metallic, hence perfectly shielded against any EM field (including Schumann resonances).

The batteries have "2600" marked on them - if that is their capacity (2600 mAh at 1.3V), and need 14 days to recharge, then it needs the continuous power of only 8.4 microwatt (not milliwatt!!). That would be within the reach of known EM harvesting technology for a device of this size, but with the battery case being metallic and empty, there is no way it could work. Besides that, the Russian guy told it took 10 hours before the battery died. Unfortunately my Russian is not perfect, so I do not understand all in the video, but machine generated English subtitles, and Google translate of the comments make it clear that the battery did not recharge, and that the author (and all others) screams about scam. They also posted a link to a Russian website describing other scams of Viktor Uzlov, and I found more on the web too (all in Russian only, though).

Anyway I never understood what a $99 flashlight that needs 14 days to charge is good for. You can buy a small solar flashlight for $3 and it charges much quicker.

Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJP9iC0_qc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO6YghleF-0

Links:
http://transnet-rus.livejournal.com/17350.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20151103115044/http://uzlovu.net/
http://marslanov.com/2014/09/10/audit-kompanii-adgex/

[MileHigh]

I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
And what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I think the Russian guy was face-to-face with the devil.

[MileHigh]

Speaking of deceptively simple circuits like the one in the screen cap from the Russian video, I have a pet name for what happens when the batteries start to get low.

I call it the "dance of death."  In the "dance of death" configuration the LED can remain illuminated at a lower level for a very very long time.  Perhaps somebody out there can venture to explain why that is.