Anyone familiar with small blinking led light units placed in toys and run by coin batteries? Have a need for motion-activated inserts. Have been on the wholesale world-wide sites but all they want to offer are ready-made toys to sell (????) or led light signs.
I have a prototype ready to go but am at a loss as to how to acquire these (should be cheap) items. Factory I am dealing with also has a plant in China and all they can buy is a minimum of 40,000 for my first run. No good. Wish to have a start-up run of 1000 only.
Other options are farming my invention out or selling it outright. We will call it a "toy". There are so many translucent little gimmicks on the market, I cannot understand why I can't find the works that go inside. I did come up with some graphics on these and actually drew a facsimile of one for a provisional patent. Kicking myself for not saving a bookmark of the site.
The other part of my question: Can these led lights be powered by photovoltaic cells? Such power is utilized by hand-held calculators and the units are so cheap, the calculators are often given away in promotional advertising. If the technology is available, the devise I am trying to produce will last longer. To give you a general idea, it resembles a petri dish about 1/4" thick and will be sealed to be water-resistant.
Thank you, Kelsy
(formerly Joankelsy. Had difficulty changing my email address on CR4.)
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