Initial review.
Shipping was slow ordered 2/23 received 3/1 shipped through USPS, may have been weather related the company is up in Colorado. My hopes were really high for this product, probably a little to high. Both products can in a sealed clear plastic bag and had a decent charge from being in the mail truck all day.
Let's start with the paqlite.
I purchased the 8x10 paqlite sheet. What it is is a plastic vacuum seal bag full of glow in the dark crystals with a little bead lanyard to attach it to a backpack or what whatever you want.
The website claims that it will charge with any light source direct or indirect and even on cloudy days. I learned very quickly that prolonged direct sunlight is the best way to charge this thing.
I let the paqlite sit on the hood of my truck for about 2 hours in direct sunlight and went to retrieve it and it was glowing very bright so I threw it in a dark closet. Unfortunately it lost much of it useful light within 2 hours but it was still glowing enough see about a foot or two around it with your eyes fully adjusted to the dark.
This picture was taken after an hour of sitting on top of a lamp with a fluorescent bulb. Like I said direct sunlight is best.
Over all the paqlite has its uses but a primary light source is not it more like tent light or equipment marker, good for the kids to.
The tooblite.
It's a 6 inch plastic test tube full of the crystals and clear epoxy and capped off with a bead lanyard. If you get a tooblite I recommend the the scooblite it has a better stopper on the top.
The toob is pretty much the same as the paqlite just in tube form. It puts off a little more light because all the crystals are concentrated in a smaller area.
This picture is after an hour on the lamp it was pretty bright enough to read by while holding it about 6 inches from the page.
Tomorrow I'm going to leave them on my dash all day to get a really good charge and try this again. Anyway this is what I got so far.
If you have any questions that I didn't cover so far please ask.
Shipping was slow ordered 2/23 received 3/1 shipped through USPS, may have been weather related the company is up in Colorado. My hopes were really high for this product, probably a little to high. Both products can in a sealed clear plastic bag and had a decent charge from being in the mail truck all day.
Let's start with the paqlite.
I purchased the 8x10 paqlite sheet. What it is is a plastic vacuum seal bag full of glow in the dark crystals with a little bead lanyard to attach it to a backpack or what whatever you want.
The website claims that it will charge with any light source direct or indirect and even on cloudy days. I learned very quickly that prolonged direct sunlight is the best way to charge this thing.
I let the paqlite sit on the hood of my truck for about 2 hours in direct sunlight and went to retrieve it and it was glowing very bright so I threw it in a dark closet. Unfortunately it lost much of it useful light within 2 hours but it was still glowing enough see about a foot or two around it with your eyes fully adjusted to the dark.
This picture was taken after an hour of sitting on top of a lamp with a fluorescent bulb. Like I said direct sunlight is best.
Over all the paqlite has its uses but a primary light source is not it more like tent light or equipment marker, good for the kids to.
The tooblite.
It's a 6 inch plastic test tube full of the crystals and clear epoxy and capped off with a bead lanyard. If you get a tooblite I recommend the the scooblite it has a better stopper on the top.
The toob is pretty much the same as the paqlite just in tube form. It puts off a little more light because all the crystals are concentrated in a smaller area.
This picture is after an hour on the lamp it was pretty bright enough to read by while holding it about 6 inches from the page.
Tomorrow I'm going to leave them on my dash all day to get a really good charge and try this again. Anyway this is what I got so far.
If you have any questions that I didn't cover so far please ask.
