Glowrings

[aardvark]

If it's radioactive why do you have to "charge" them up in the day to get the most out of them?

nope

its tritium they use, not irridum.

i got one when they first came out about 7-8 years ago.
i actually got 2 - one broke last year but the other is still going, although i think it might be less bright than it used to be.

i'll definitely get a new one when this one dies.

 

[Tommy B]

Damn you people making me waste my money!

Anyone doing Newcastle Freshers week and the GLOW night at the end? That Glow site listed on the first page might come in handy.

 

[krisboats]

http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/acatalog/GLOW_GIZMOS_GLOW_BRICK.html

These look cooler imo.

 

[r0undb0y]

I had one of these for a while, until one day wondered why I was keeping somthing radioactive in my pocket next to my veg all day.. Its lying around my room somewhere its over a year old and still works..

 

[Yas786]

http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/acatalog/LAV_NAV_TOILET_LIGHT.html

Now that is cool....toilet lightp

 

[aardvark]

http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/acatalog/GLOW_GIZMOS_GLOW_BRICK.html

These look cooler imo.

got one of those - not very bright though.

if they filled it with tritium, now that would be cool - probably a bit dangerous though

 

[ALLI]

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/nite-glowrings/index.html

7.95 & free delivery on the bay.

 

[Danger Phoenix]

http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/acatalog/GLOW_GIZMOS_GLOW_BRICK.html

These look cooler imo.

My friend got me one of those as a random gift... it is fairly bright... and looks cool in the dark

 

[Mike UK]

7.95 & free delivery on the bay.

Dawm these threads bought one off the Bay cheers for the info

 

[Reeve]

The radiation probably doesnt even penetrate the glass casing inside the plastic and even if it did somehow manage to pass through the THICK plastic casing its then got to penetrate your clothes then your skin to do any damage....it just wont happen.

The ONLY way this would damage you is if you broke the tube out of the casing, smashed it and inhaled the vapour inside.

 

[scratch]

I've had two of these over the last 7/8 years and they both broke within a year or two They can be handy though..there's been a few times when I've lost my keys in the dark while camping and the glowring has helped me find them.

Andy

 

[fini]

I bought one from IWOOT and it was barely glowing when I received it. I could barely see it in a completely dark room. Went straight back to them...

Weren't you banned from IWOOT after you, and some other people off here (but mostly you) defrauded them with multiple accounts?

 

[Danger Phoenix]

Weren't you banned from IWOOT after you, and some other people off here (but mostly you) defrauded them with multiple accounts?

I wasn't banned

 

[gumbald]

How were they defrauded?

 

[fini]

They had a £5 off voucher, but they forgot to set a minimum spend so people got stuff for free. Despite the voucher saying one per customer certain people <cough> danger phoenix <cough> soon realised that they didn't check if two usernames were from the same house and thus you could just keep signing up with different usernames - so despite being the same customer they managed to place order after order (I believe it was in the magnitude of 15 orders IIRC). IIRC it all ended up with a frankly hilarious e-mail in which some important person at the company threatened to sue danger phoenix, but nothing ever came of it.

 

[Danger Phoenix]

How were they defrauded?

A few Easters ago, they started this Easter Egg Hunt on their website, which gave you discount codes (£5, £10, £15, £20 etc) and they offered free delivery at the same time.

A whole group of OcUK people went nuts with it...

One of the IWOOT guys came across the thread here, and found my post, and basically emailed me with all the names I had used and said that I was lucky that some of my orders had gotten through but he had managed to stop the rest.

A lot of us on here were lucky with free stuff


/Edit: fini, I wasn't the only one so be quiet!

 

[Glaucus]

I remember that, beat the system, use parents, grandparents, flatmates, friends. It's surprising how much free stuff you can get "legit".

 

[Aod]

tritium decays into helium by this reaction:

as you can see, the radioactive emmission is an electron. the electron excites the phosphorous, causing it to release a photon.

tritium has a half life of roughly 12 years, which means, in a situation of abundant phosphor, the tube would be glowing at half intensity 12 years after its production.

however, because the companies who make these things skimp out to maximise profits, they use low quality phosphor, and less-than-optimum amounts of tritium, which is why cheap ones (aka, NEW ones) don't glow for as long.

i feel i should mention, low-energy beta radiation (emmission of an electron remember) is completely harmless. how many of you have used a CRT monitor in your life? the electron bathing you experienced from using a CRT is many many orders of magnitude greater than having one of these an inch from your testicles. furthermore, electrons (unless travelling at reletivistic speeds) cannot penetrate skin.

Science wins, naysayers lose. awesome.

 

[ALLI]

Dawm these threads bought one off the Bay cheers for the info

hehe, sorry. it's an automatic reaction. see something, google it, ebay it, buy it.

i have many random things i dont need. LED upgrade kit for a 6 cell maglite, inova x5 tactical light, ASP UV keyring light - and now some little keyring light that will last for up to 10 years. grr!!!

i wish i wasn't such a gadget freak!!!

 

[tsinc80697]

Must be useless for searching the bay, keeps coming up with random carp glow in the dark items, can't find one of these!
glow bricks look cool though!