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Old 02-22-2019, 09:33 AM
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Hello All,

A few days ago I received—from an eBay vendor—ten (for just CAN $1.10, *including* postage) waterproof LED “balloon lights” that have molded-in tie points (see: www.ebay.ca/itm/253955217798 )—they are extremely bright, are available in multiple colors, and use AG3 button cells (standard hearing aid and watch batteries, which are available just about everywhere; each LED “balloon light” uses two of them, which are included). These LED “balloon lights” would also be perfect for night-flying model rockets (just tie them to the nose cones; they even fit in BT-20 size rockets). In addition to being waterproof, they have locking ON/OFF slide switches, so that one could turn the light ON before launch, and it wouldn’t accidentally get turned OFF at ejection. *ALSO*:

The human eye is most sensitive to yellowish-green light (that’s why the chemical light sticks [see: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cyalume-SOS...5.c100008.m2219 ] are that color). The LED "balloon lights" are available in green (which looks like the same shade of green as the light sticks), yellow, and (for comparison with the green and yellow lights--say, on a flying field after dark) white.

I hope this information will be helpful.
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Old 02-22-2019, 10:29 PM
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China vendor with 96% rating, so expect it to take two or three weeks. It's available from other China vendors, so you might find one that's got a bit higher rating. Interesting product.
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Old 02-23-2019, 03:02 AM
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China vendor with 96% rating, so expect it to take two or three weeks. It's available from other China vendors, so you might find one that's got a bit higher rating. Interesting product.
Thank you for letting me know. My bag of ten white LED "balloon lights" took a couple of months to arrive from that vendor whose eBay page I posted above, *but* I placed that order right at the beginning of the "Christmas crush," so that likely affected the arrival time (they're sent at the lowest Postal rate). However:

They came in pristine condition, and even the parcel itself looked like it had just been packed; it bore no marks of rough handling. I've already ordered--last night--one bag each of ten green and ten yellow ones (twenty lights in total, in two parcels), so I'll just wait for them to arrive (likely sooner than the first batch did). Plus, I can't easily beat their price--they're just $1.10 (Canadian dollars) for ten LED lights, which *includes* the postage--and they come with their AG3 button cell batteries (with their slide switches locked in the OFF position).
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Old 02-23-2019, 10:54 AM
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Most of my purchases from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan take a week or two to get to the US, then spend a week or two in customs. From there, it's the usual timing for USPS ground. I've experienced similar delays to yours around Christmas.
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Old 02-24-2019, 01:38 AM
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*Nods* Mine usually take that long (outside the "holidays window") as well, although sometimes they come as soon as a week after I've placed the order (it depends on whether the Conex shipping container is almost full or not).
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*Nods* Mine usually take that long (outside the "holidays window") as well, although sometimes they come as soon as a week after I've placed the order (it depends on whether the Conex shipping container is almost full or not).

And whether the customs agents are in a bad mood when it shows up in the US.
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And whether the customs agents are in a bad mood when it shows up in the US.
I've had it better and worse. It was worse when a shipment of Jet-X (new-production Jetex) fuel pellets arrived soaking wet and ruined (partly dissolved!), and:

It was better when a few pre-packaged "UFO balloons" (nicely-made, multi-colored plastic hot-air balloons with kerosene-soaked, rolled-fabric fuel cells) arrived from the Thai vendor--Banana Bending Company (here are the balloon plans: http://www.spectron.us/SM6FIE/RcFly/HotAirBalloon.php [drawing is attached below])--with the parcel smelling strongly of kerosene (because the plastic bag of one of them had been torn in transit; that balloon and its fuel cell were undamaged). U.S. Customs, Asallam http://trazosenelbloc.blogspot.com/...-unicornis.html bless them, *could* have discarded the parcel due to its scent and obvious flammability, but instead, they just affixed an inspection sticker that read "parcel damaged in transit" and sent it along to me!
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