wakibaki
Newly Enlightened
Like many people I walk my dogs in the dark sometimes. Some of the walks are away from streetlighting and the dogs are allowed to roam free as there is little in the way of danger. It is difficult sometimes to know where the dogs are if there is no moon, although they both have white patches. They are both not yet adult and I do prefer know where they are.
I have tried a proprietary LED collar solution, but mine had a string of small red LEDs with a flasher let into eyelets, and with maybe a 25% flash. The trouble was they got under the dogs neck fur and especially with the flashing the light was still virtually invisible sometimes even when the dogs were in direct line of sight. They died pretty quick in the rain although this is another issue, but the batteries didn't survive long anyway.
So instead we (my wife and I) used chemical glow sticks. They were better in some ways, but still not very bright, and they used to spring apart and drop off sometimes.
A couple days ago I got 10 white keychain lights from DX. They all worked. Bright.
You can guess the rest of the story. Tonight I put a key chain light on each dog collar. Fantastic. I was out for nearly an hour, and the light was barely diminished when we came back. I can use the same 2 lights again. Obviously they won't tolerate swimming, but I'll try poly bagging them in the rain. They hang down under their heads and illuminate the ground in front of their forepaws. Cool.
The dogs were totally unfazed by them. In fact I overheard one one of them saying to the other, "We got torches. I don't see any other dogs here with torches." There weren't any other dogs there at the time, so this has to be considered a success. :shakehead
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I have tried a proprietary LED collar solution, but mine had a string of small red LEDs with a flasher let into eyelets, and with maybe a 25% flash. The trouble was they got under the dogs neck fur and especially with the flashing the light was still virtually invisible sometimes even when the dogs were in direct line of sight. They died pretty quick in the rain although this is another issue, but the batteries didn't survive long anyway.
So instead we (my wife and I) used chemical glow sticks. They were better in some ways, but still not very bright, and they used to spring apart and drop off sometimes.
A couple days ago I got 10 white keychain lights from DX. They all worked. Bright.
You can guess the rest of the story. Tonight I put a key chain light on each dog collar. Fantastic. I was out for nearly an hour, and the light was barely diminished when we came back. I can use the same 2 lights again. Obviously they won't tolerate swimming, but I'll try poly bagging them in the rain. They hang down under their heads and illuminate the ground in front of their forepaws. Cool.
The dogs were totally unfazed by them. In fact I overheard one one of them saying to the other, "We got torches. I don't see any other dogs here with torches." There weren't any other dogs there at the time, so this has to be considered a success. :shakehead
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