Light Sticks

[NorthernRaider]

(17 November 2011, 16:32)Reality Jones Wrote: I bought some of these off e-bay the other week and to be honest i'm not that impressed.
I got the Lumica light. 6" Saftey light stick in white. 8 hr duration.military and industrial grade, Nato cage code KD1YO (whatever that means?)

They just didn't give out the intesity of light that I was expecting, are there more powerful ones that I should be looking out for?

RJ the Cage number is the place in the standardised depots where they are kept, as for intensity the longer they last the dimmer they are. you can get High Intensity Light sticks that are hellishly bright, but only last about 30 to 40 minutes. Then you have the normal range sticks that can run from 8 til 12 hours. I hope I'm not trying to teach my granny to suck eggs but you are aware it takes your eyes 35 minutes to adapt to a nightime situation illuminated only by night sticks? The best on the market traditionally have been cyalume and lumica, but some of the liesure brands are coming along quite nicely. If you require something similar but possibly more intense you could try a Krill Light, Its chemoluminescence light triggered by a battery.