Thread: KRILL lamp
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Old February 1, 2000, 02:33 AM   #7
NEKPHOTON
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The Krill is about the brightness of a 12 hour chemlight stick after 1-1.5 hours of use. However, the Krill maintains that brightness for considerably longer than the chemlight. Here's the link to the large version of the chart NASA created in evaluating them for space useage.
http://www.kriana.com/glowstick_ligh...comparison.jpg

If you want to use it for reading, you'll probably get a headache but the best one to use is the Green Extreme 180, the brightest of all variations. Used as a marker, you can see it from a hundred yards without much difficulty. In order of color brightness it runs from the "dimmest" of Red, Orange, Yellow, Purple (NEW), White, Blue, and Green as the brightest. In model order, it runs from the Krill (standard) 360º, Krill (std.) 180º, Krill Extreme 360º (rough tie with brightness of Krill (std.) 180º) and lastly the Krill extreme 180º. The Standard burns for 120 hours on standard AA's- longer on lithiums (and brighter for longer), whereas the Extremes burn for 50 hours of useable light(same notation re:lithium. All that burntime vs. the 12 hours you get with the chemlight(which is more like 6 hours useable time).

These are tough little suckers- they are great for fishing (if you can use lights with your bait- check local laws), they bounce off rocks nicely and stay intact/work, are waterproof to 150', etc. The velcro on the 180's is great for sticking it to things- like scuba tanks, motorcycle gas tanks, fleece jackets...

Sales have overwhelmingly favored brighter v. duration- both mine and the factory's. Green is the biggest seller as well- fairly evenly mixes of the 180 and 360. Maybe this will provide another perspective.

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