CrayTac – Infrared Glow Crayon

Description

Product Image – CrayTac Crayon (left) is the Larger, Dark Cylinder. The smaller, light chapstick looking product is Trace from Battlesight.

From Battlesight Technologies comes the night vision operations tool you always assumed existed but could never find until now – CrayTac. CrayTac is essentially a big, field ready crayon-like writing tool, that when used on an appropriate surface, will passively generate an infrared glow. Although CrayTac does disperse into a mildly visible marking to the eyes (kind of like a faint blue crayon), when viewed through night vision a bright glow effect is visible that lasts between 45 to 120 minutes or more depending on the conditions.

We found CrayTac searching for useful tools that could increase our own night time event and training activities at Nocturnality, and treat CrayTac as a standard night vision kit accessory. We use it for a variety of applications, some of which are below for inspiration, but the possibilities are relatively limitless – what would you do if you could write or mark and have it visible only to night vision users at great distances?

We use CrayTac for:

• Making difficult to see targets more identifiable for to introduce training concepts
• Creating varied shoot/no shoot target concepts for night vision training
• Marking navigational waypoints
• Marking our own gear for easier identification in the dark to teammates without the need for other battery powered tools or expensive single use IR chem sticks

The capabilities are nearly endless.

Select ‘Single Marker’ for One CrayTac crayon, Select 12-pack to outfit all your homies.

What to Know About Using CrayTac

As end users, we wanted to pass along some information on CrayTac’s use and effectiveness for best experience to prospective buyers. These are things we’ve discovered while extensively testing and using the product.

• CrayTac works by chemicals which react with one another being suspended in a wax like substance
• When you mark something with craytac, you separate chemicals which in turn creates the IR reaction
• By extension, CrayTac works best when marking onto hard, lightly textured surfaces
• However, other factors greatly alter how effective CrayTac can appear in the field, primarily the amount of ambient light
• Viewed through night vision, which amplifies IR light, CrayTac appears very bright when first properly marked onto an appropriate surface
  • However, the intensity of the glow is highest immediately after marking and slowly fades over time
  • Further, if the ambient light level is elevated, the environmental light level can exceed the intensity of the glow after a certain point – the more ambient light level, the shorter it appears that CrayTac will be glowing
• We’ve found if your use environment is very dark (even in night vision terms), CrayTac will often be visible from up to 50 or more yards away for 20-45 minutes, and visible closer than that for upwards of 90-120 minutes. This assumes it has been used on an appropriately hard, slightly roughened surface material.
  • Certain wood (target stands), steel targets, ammo cans, polymer magazines, metal magazines, concrete, and many other surface materials often are best
• If your environment is only moderately dark or features mixed lighting, CrayTac may only appear obviously visible for a shorter period of time before the latent glow is reduced below the ambient light level
• In some cases and environments, CrayTac will appear visible through night vision almost indefinitely, because it leaves a physical mark on surfaces which is still visible even after the chemical IR glow is gone. On surfaces and in certain lighting conditions where this core substance is still visible and stands out, CrayTac remains visible at close distances even without glow.