Glow ropes

One caveat, I’ve only seen the GITD relatively early in the evening. If your main concern is drunks stumbling around at 2 AM, I have no idea how well it is still glowing at that point.

Honestly I’d probably just hang a red fauxton from the middle of the guyline.

Sounds good. Btw, if you don’t mind my asking… your strange avatar. Can’t quite make out the detail. Someone’s head covered in aluminum foil?

That prevents them from reading my mind. :slight_smile:

Oh, good, so I’m not the only one who thought that.

Welcome to the club. Aside from the breakfast one, how many does that make? :wink:

Don’t you, forget about me. Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t. Don’t you, forget about me

Ah, but your eyes are exposed. To really do it right, you’d need to…

Some people like to sleep covered in aluminum foil.

Security is always a matter of tradeoffs. With eyes covered usability suffers a lot.

I sleep in a Faraday cage. Side effect - no phone call will wake me up at night. :slight_smile:

I really think you should consider the EL wire that ImA4Wheelr suggested. I don’t know how long the batteries last but you will not miss it in the dark. This model has slow and fast blinky modes.


I have this odd, curious feeling that you’re not kidding.

Me kidding?
Never.

Anyway, I’m back from the festival.
I tried the glow tape, it didn’t work at all. There was too much light around killing night vision.
When I used a flashlight to charge them - they were visible. But not enough to catch attention of a sober person, let alone a drunk one.
Without chariging they were barely visible when I knew where too look. Useless in that setting.

So…a glow rope would probably work even worse.
I guess it takes some electricity to be visible in such setting.

It’s hard to know, because the brainwaves are totally cut off from the aluminum foil. Well, I guess that answers my question. :smiley:

Yeah, in your scenario it sounds like you need some low intensity flashing LED modules. You can buy them fairly cheaply from China these days. It’s just that deployment and recovery is tedious, depending upon how many guy lines you’re addressing. But at the same time, it may be too distracting, like some kind of carnival setup (little red flashing lights all over).
How about this? Motion sensor! Set up an LED light to shine onto the area, rigged up with a motion sensor to turn on at just the right time, before an inebriated fellow reaches the stumble point.

Was just thinking… someone could just fidget something together out of a set of LED Christmas lights. Split the 3-wires into a strand of 2 (they “switch tracks” in the middle), and while they’ll all be in series, a cheap circuit that just dumps a quick HV pulse through ’em every few seconds would be enough, and the battery would last a loooooooong time.

I hate blinkies in general so they are not really for me…

I will surely try reflective rope. I already purchased it and it covers 70% of those passing by if not more.
For the rest? I still like throwies.
But I’m also thinking about ordinary solar lawn lights, $1.2 a piece and should do the trick. I paid more for lightweight pegs recently. :slight_smile: And the fact that they are NOT fancy is nice. :slight_smile:

Still thanks for the suggestions. :slight_smile: I love this forum. :slight_smile:

I have also wanted to mark my tent’s guy lines. I have used HGV contour markings adhesive tape. It is sold in form of wide tape or 5cm squares, with different versions for rigid surfaces and tarpaulin. I have used squared one for tarpaulin, cut in half and attached to guy line.

Shown glued to guy line:

I’ve used these before for marking various things, not tried them on guy lines though.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/AtomLight-Keyring-Kit-Marking-Function-UK-Made/dp/B0733D5VTY/ref=sr_1_26?keywords=luminous+zip+pulls&qid=1566554425&s=gateway&sr=8-26

or maybe something like these?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nite-glow-keyring-illuminates-colour/dp/B000EXZNA0/ref=sr_1_20?keywords=luminous+zip+pulls&qid=1566554425&s=gateway&sr=8-20

I’m sure cheaper versions of both can be found somewhere.

I remember seeing the first article about throwies…less than $1 a piece…it was quite a bit cheaper when I saw it.
But this has caught me by surprise:

Remotely controlled RGB throwies with 2*CR2032 batteries included, costing $1.1 a piece. OK, if you need a magned you need to add it. :wink:

Funny, but I was just looking for this thread…

Vipon has a bunch of vipons for “fairy lights” that can be looped around tie-down ropes, etc.

WW, CW, RGB, etc., mostly AA-powered.

Go crazy…

12 hour glo sticks might do ya (duct tape most of it to minimize acquisition angst)

https://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Bright-Glow-Sticks-Earthquake/dp/B01GTU597I?ref\_=ws_cp_f469fa74ba3b46a8a6ea_pcr_1_i

I haven’t thought about that.
Quick estimation:
My large tent (the one that matters) has 10 guy lines. Say 15m total length.
Cut a 20m string into sections, wire together to a single USB plug, add some resistor to reduce output….sounds like an interesting solution. :slight_smile:
More involved than I’m willing to do now but I’ll keep that in mind for later. Thank you for this hint. :slight_smile:
As to strings themselves - Ali is still cheaper than even these deals (and for me - much easier as well). My recent purchase was a 20m remotely controlled string for $3.64

Thanks for the suggestion, but 10 sticks per night would definitely be too much waste…