Redundancy - Glow in the dark paint?

[avengedkevinfold]

Has anybody found a cool way to use the glow in the dark paint as a redundancy?

The theory is, as the heli is flying with all your LEDs it charges the glow paint. If your lights go out at any time, the paint still glows.

http://glowinc.com/detail.aspx?ID=41

[Cartrixx]

i would actually use uv leds on the inside of the canopy to "charge" the glow paint....than not only if lights go out you have a glow, but you also get a glowing canopy....someone made a post on that actually in the past day or so

[avengedkevinfold]

Yes I am following that thread that you are talking about.
However, they did not use glow in the dark paint. They simply used UV reactive paint.
I am not an expert but i do believe there is a big difference.

The UV reactive (florescent paint) would react to light and show colors only when the light is shined on it. When you turn the UV leds light off, the canopy does not remain glowing.

Now for the glow in the dark paint. The website states that it goes on clear. Have you ever turned the light on to "charge" a glow in the dark object? It is dull and does not glow at all as long as you have the light on. As soon as you turn the light off it starts to glow. This would mean, if you painted the top of your canopy in UV reactive (florescent paint) and the bottom in glow in the dark paint....
The top of the canopy would shine while your UV leds are lit (in color). And the bottom would simply appear clear and you would get UV lights in your face through a clear bottom canopy. (not good)

Another option. Here's what gets really crazy. What if you painted the entire outside of the canopy in UV reactive (florescent paint) and the entire inside with glow in the dark paint (clear).

I would expect the UV (florescent paint) to go normal during flight like seen here. And then after your flight, would the glow in the dark paint kick in and take over? Letting your canopy remain glowing after you remove the battery?

[Dan E]

If you get the chance, go grab a blacklight (uv light) and hold it up to a glow in the dark object. It immediately makes it glow, infact stores use uv lights to display their glow in the dark nic-nacs.
You can (if I remember my childhood correctly) get a few different colours as well.