<A company named OccuNomix Int. Inc. markets a flashing safety armband made from an electroluminescent strip powered by 2 AAA bats. that operates for more than 225 hours and is visible up to 5000 ft.> Two thoughts: have worked at sea with similar types of electroluminescent devices before, trying to use them as part of distress signals for flight data recorders. They take those little AAA batts and get one helluva lot of voltage to operate the chargers, and you can get one helluva shock from those little guys. Mine were powered by nine volt cells, and one almost knocked me off the crash boat. The more important point, as has been hashed and rehashed on PaddleWise in the past --- strobing or flashing lights, other than on nav markers, are distress signals, not neat things to wear so power craft will see you. Same applies to flashing LEDs. We're all better off if everyone uses standard issue white lights for signaling, per USCG standards (in the US, obviously) and not get fancy with strobes, flashing LEDs and light sticks. There are well publicized lighting rules for all size boats, and we, as a community of sea kayakers, would be well served if everyone would just live with the rules and not be too creative in our electrics. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 19:42:42 PDT
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