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Sea-Air-Space
2014 Show Daily News - Emergency / Triage Lights |
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Emergency
/ Triage lights to be showcased at Sea-Air-Space 2014 |
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Southwest
Synergistic Solutions, LLC delivers the newest, toughest, most economic,
and best in illuminated night time marking equipment. E/T Lights were
originally designed at the request of a combat medic. In essence he
said, “ I am out in the field, carrying four bags of different
colored chemical lights, attending my wounded, all while being shot
at, I am carrying way to much stuff. I need something that will reduce
my load and better prioritize my soldiers.” After 3 years of prototyping
and two years of combat feedback I finalized the design we have today. |
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All four
colors in one light |
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The
E/T Light combines four colors into one small, one hand activated, re-usable
illuminated marker. The newest multi-program versions 6.8’s have
been issued NSN’s. Version 6.8A contains the colors red, yellow,
green, and blue and has 15 modes to choose from, NSN 6230-01-605-9650.
Version 6.8IR contains the colors infrared, red, green, blue and has
15 modes to choose from, including four modes that set the E/T Lights
to strictly IR settings, NSN 6230-01-605-9535. The E/T Lights are also
offered in “keep it simple” versions 1 through 5, one light,
one set sequence. You choose which version works best for you.
Today E/T Lights are utilized for a variety of purposes and address
three major concerns for the military. The military is reducing their
budgets and the E/T Light potentially reduces the chemical light stick
budget close to 90%. The military wants to reduce the weight and volume
carried by our troops and the E/T Light will reduce this by over 60%,
for this type of equipment. The military wants to improve capabilities
and the E/T Light provides that. The simple fact that you can turn off
the E/T Light during a mission, something you cannot do with chemical
lights, should be enough, besides many other capability improvements.
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According
to DLA numbers the tax payer has spent over $179,536,123.30 on chemical
lights since 2010. That is close to $60,000,000 dollars per year. Following
is an example of how E/T Light would contribute to reducing this number.
Let’s take for example the common repetitive task of personnel
night time marking for situational awareness of personnel and communication
of responsibilities.
E/T Lights average ~9.5 days on the color blue. Chemical lights state
they will last 6 hours. Take 9.5 days and multiply by 24 hours in a
day and that gives you 228 hours of life for the blue selection of the
E/T Light. Know take the average cost to the military of ~$33.00 for
each E/T Light and divide it by the life, it gives you ~$33.00/228 hours
= $0.14 per hour to run on the original battery. You would spend ~$1.10
on each chemical light that will last only 6 hours. The E/T Light will
cost you ~$0.14 X 6 hours = $0.84 for 6 hours of operation. The E/T
Light is already cheaper to run per hour on the color blue and keep
in mind that with chemical lights you must consume all six hours of
life, with the E/T Lights you can save by not utilizing unnecessary
energy.
Now consider you are replacing the battery at a cost of ~$3.00 a battery
for another 228 hours of use on the blue selection. Take ~$3.00/228
hours = $0.01/hour. The E/T Light now costs you 1 penny per hour to
run on blue vs. the $1.10 for each blue chemical light you purchase.
There will always be a place for cheap disposable chemical lights but
there is a better solution for common repetitive tasks that do not require
you crack and forget. |
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The
same overall capability improvements also apply when you think of transportation
and storage. Using the above stated numbers you are basically replacing
(228 hrs blue selection E/T Light / 6 hrs blue chemlight =) 38 chemlights
with one very small 3V CR2 battery, the reductions in weight and volume
exceeds 60%, and that is substantial. Now consider that you will need
to resupply chemlights less often and use the resupply missions to include
more important items than voluminous chemlights.
We are looking forward the demonstrating the new prototype Navy version
7, this new version takes into consideration carrier deck personnel
and how they are identified by 7 different colors. The Navy version
7 prototype now includes modes that offer dual color selections for
example red/blue, red/yellow, red/green, green/yellow, green/blue, blue/yellow,
alternating, flashing at the same time and simultaneously on, giving
much more than just four basic color options for signaling personnel,
equipment or hazards. We are looking forward to hear the feedback on
what we have today and what the final version will be. Please stop by
booth 1126 and contribute your feedback.
Lastly we would like to put it out there that we are willing to supply
a limited quantity of E/T Lights for official Naval Evaluation. The
E/T Lights recently underwent Army PEO Soldier, Soldier Enhancement
Program testing and we did great. Any ship or sub coming out of an overhaul
or major yard period willing to sponsor the official Naval evaluation
is welcome to stop by booth 1126 at this year’s Sea-Air-Space
conference. Any Pre-Commisioned or newly commissioned ships during their
Shakedown Cruise or work ups are also welcome to contact us to potentially
participate. In the end we are all tax payers and should get the most
for our buck. Use the chemlight when you really have too but use the
E/T Light for those repetitive common tasks you perform every day.
• Reduce performance costs
• Reduce weight/volume of equipment
• Improve capabilities
• Multi-purpose uses, easily transitions from one function to
another
• Reduce resupply and replacement costs
• Value Purchase
Visit Emergency/Triage Lights during Sea-Air-Space 2014 on booth 1126 |
