Alrighty, I have two of them Infront of me and the reason the military grade one for 12 hours isn't as bright is because if you are in war or guerilla warfare, you don't want anything to bright because that would give away your location, snap light however is more of an industrial as you said, they would not be used in wars. I decided to take some time out of my day even though I'm five years late, I was in naval bivouac a few days ago and they taught us all about this, just thought I would help you understand a bit more. - PO3 Englehardt, Liam of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps.
Thank you for watching and commenting! And yes, I have learned that “military grade” definitely does not automatically mean better. I remember reading a comment in Amazon about “military grade” where the person made the point that “military grade” means it is simply made to military specifications, which could be very outdated, and the commercial technology has already surpassed. Thank you again for your comment.
Your ChemLight may have been all ready activated before you got it out of the packaging, it also could've been expired. ChemLight's have a shelf life of 4 years while the SnapLight have a 5 year shelf life.
Thank you for watching and commenting! When I did the test, the ChemLights were still within the Use By Date, also I was quite certain I heard and felt the snap of the inner tube. Thank you for commenting.
There's actually WAY more than you're showing. They're available in ultra high intensity 5 minute, high intensity 30 min, high intensity 1 hr, 6 (sometimes 8) hr, 12 hr, and 24 hr. The 7 colors are white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and pink. I believe they also make an infrared (IR) for military or night vision operations that come in 3 and 8 hr variants.
RationallySkeptical Hi there! Thank you for watching and commenting. Yes, I am aware of the numerous versions of glow sticks available. This experiment was driven by my own curiosity based on questions I had as I was simply looking to buy some glow sticks. I was curious to know what was the difference between military grade versus commercial grade, if any; and how much brighter were the 30 minute ones to the 12 hour ones, of the same color? I paid for these glow sticks myself, and used the color that mattered to me the most for the application I had in mind. I just thought some others in the TH-cam community might appreciate seeing such a comparison. Maybe in the future I will do more experiments with other colors. I do have a set of the high intensity glow sticks meant as road flare alternatives that I will be doing a video on in the near future, so stay tuned! Once again, thank you for viewing and commenting.
Good video. Sucks the mil spec stick was doa. Were you sure the capule wasn't already broken? Good review! Eta..been grabbing the two pack green at Lowe's for $2.
Alrighty, I have two of them Infront of me and the reason the military grade one for 12 hours isn't as bright is because if you are in war or guerilla warfare, you don't want anything to bright because that would give away your location, snap light however is more of an industrial as you said, they would not be used in wars. I decided to take some time out of my day even though I'm five years late, I was in naval bivouac a few days ago and they taught us all about this, just thought I would help you understand a bit more.
- PO3 Englehardt, Liam of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps.
As someone who’s in the military I stay away from “military grade stuff”
Thank you for watching and commenting! And yes, I have learned that “military grade” definitely does not automatically mean better. I remember reading a comment in Amazon about “military grade” where the person made the point that “military grade” means it is simply made to military specifications, which could be very outdated, and the commercial technology has already surpassed. Thank you again for your comment.
Your ChemLight may have been all ready activated before you got it out of the packaging, it also could've been expired. ChemLight's have a shelf life of 4 years while the SnapLight have a 5 year shelf life.
Thank you for watching and commenting! When I did the test, the ChemLights were still within the Use By Date, also I was quite certain I heard and felt the snap of the inner tube. Thank you for commenting.
Duds do happen.
There's actually WAY more than you're showing. They're available in ultra high intensity 5 minute, high intensity 30 min, high intensity 1 hr, 6 (sometimes 8) hr, 12 hr, and 24 hr. The 7 colors are white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and pink. I believe they also make an infrared (IR) for military or night vision operations that come in 3 and 8 hr variants.
RationallySkeptical
Hi there! Thank you for watching and commenting.
Yes, I am aware of the numerous versions of glow sticks available. This experiment was driven by my own curiosity based on questions I had as I was simply looking to buy some glow sticks. I was curious to know what was the difference between military grade versus commercial grade, if any; and how much brighter were the 30 minute ones to the 12 hour ones, of the same color? I paid for these glow sticks myself, and used the color that mattered to me the most for the application I had in mind. I just thought some others in the TH-cam community might appreciate seeing such a comparison.
Maybe in the future I will do more experiments with other colors. I do have a set of the high intensity glow sticks meant as road flare alternatives that I will be doing a video on in the near future, so stay tuned!
Once again, thank you for viewing and commenting.
Thanks, i appreciate the experiment.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Good video. Sucks the mil spec stick was doa. Were you sure the capule wasn't already broken? Good review! Eta..been grabbing the two pack green at Lowe's for $2.
SnapLight 12 hours for me!
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Interesting.
nice