OK first post on this board, just wanted to run this idea by you guys and see if it sounds like it would work.
Zippers on the tent and sleeping bag and all are always a pain to find at night and one thing I've thought about doing is mixing some of the newer glow in the dark pigment stuff (can't recall what its called off the top of my head) into something like Mod Podge to make a glow in the dark coating. This would work in theory but I don't think they would receive enough light before dark to have a decent charge and since one would most likely have a flashlight with them on their way out to use the bathroom anyway I had another idea.
Take something like a photon type light but with at least 2 LED's. One thats all red to start with would work great, then replace at least one with a UV LED. (I've seen claims that one of these in a dark room will light up a black light poster) Since UV does such magical things to anything GITD and red helps preserve night vision you'd end up with a nice mix of immediate light without causing everything else to go black and your zippers and other important things (like perhaps tend lines) would be glowing and visible perhaps even beyond the range of the red light. Thus you'd have the perfect tend light.
Thoughts?
Zippers on the tent and sleeping bag and all are always a pain to find at night and one thing I've thought about doing is mixing some of the newer glow in the dark pigment stuff (can't recall what its called off the top of my head) into something like Mod Podge to make a glow in the dark coating. This would work in theory but I don't think they would receive enough light before dark to have a decent charge and since one would most likely have a flashlight with them on their way out to use the bathroom anyway I had another idea.
Take something like a photon type light but with at least 2 LED's. One thats all red to start with would work great, then replace at least one with a UV LED. (I've seen claims that one of these in a dark room will light up a black light poster) Since UV does such magical things to anything GITD and red helps preserve night vision you'd end up with a nice mix of immediate light without causing everything else to go black and your zippers and other important things (like perhaps tend lines) would be glowing and visible perhaps even beyond the range of the red light. Thus you'd have the perfect tend light.
Thoughts?