I was playing around with the 2 Spark-lites I have and noticed that one was giving off better sparks than the other.

The first (Day-glo Orange) Spark-lite is from the Doug Ritter PSK and the second (Olive Drab) is from a fourseasonssurvival.com Fire Starter Aviation Survival Spark-lite kit that I bought from Brigade Quartermaster.

My question is this: Is the Spark-lite provided in the D.R. PSK the same ones that fourseasonssurvival.com sells or is it a different one and is there really that big of a quality difference between Spark-lites?

Four Seasons Survival Spark-lite kits

To illustrate my findings I made several 3 second exposure pictures of each as they were struck. Only 1 picture of each is in the photoset below, because they all came out the same for the most part.

Spark-lite test

I have never seen nor heard of a knock off Spark-Lite. Not saying there aren't any, but I imagine you have two that are at opposite ends of the permitted specs.

For some odd reason I have found on more than one occaision that the OD green ones do not give off the same volume of sparks. The orange has always performed better. I don't know why that is. They are the same otherwise. Not a knock off.

I had posted the same problem in this post a while back. The difference was, I bought both of them from CountyComm, and they were identical (Except for performance ;-).