QSL Physics Lab Kit - we finished and a review

https://www.qualitysciencelabs.com/qsl-physics/

This is the link for the QSL Physics lab kit.  It's designed for high school homeschool physics, so you could add the kit to a physics text and have a lab component that's possible to be done at home.  It has labs that cover movement, friction, momentum, pendulums, force, electronics, magnetism, motors, light, etc.  

I had a love/hate relationship with this lab kit.  

The drawbacks I felt right away:

1. It's very expensive.  I usually can not afford one kit for $300.  A dear homeschooling friend loaned the kit to us and that was the only way I was able to use it for our physics course.
2. The early labs were difficult to figure out (for us).  It didn't seem like the book explained the labs very well.  More pictures, especially in the electronics section, would've been helpful.
3. We had a hard time with the electronics labs.  I had to get help from a family member who used to be an electrician.  He was able to do the labs with us and show us how to use the multimeter, etc.
4. Some of the motion labs were more fun to do with toys.  We used matchbox cars and ramps for a couple of the labs.

I absolutely did not like the kit in the beginning and almost packed it up and put it away.  But, I tried a couple more labs and over the course of the semester, I fell in love with this lab kit.  I actually offered to buy the kit from my friend, because I know I would use it again with my youngest when he's in high school.  

The things I loved about the kit:

1. I took physics in high school and college and we never, ever got to actually USE electronic breadboards and components to try out different circuits.  The teens and I learned a ton about circuitry through this lab kit.  The breadboard is excellent and they give you extra components in case you drop a resistor or jumper wire.  All of the electronic labs WORKED.  I was very impressed.  I had to have the laptop open when we did the electronics labs, because we were trying to learn more about the components.
2. Lenses, Mirrors, Reflection/Refraction, Laser Beam Labs.  Another thing that seemed to be overlooked when I took physics in school.  There was never time to play with a prism and a laser beam.  The girls and I enjoyed the lens labs.
3. The Speed of Sound in Air lab.  Without giving away too much, this was also an excellent lab that I've never seen done in school.  
4. The math focus.  Every lab does have math to it.  Graphing, making charts, equations....  It IS physics, so there's math.  But it wasn't overwhelming.  Graphing, averages, etc are good skills to practice in the lab.

This kit is going to really be missed when I have to return it to my friend.  I'm pretty good at coming up with science labs and activities, but I don't think I would've been able to put together physics labs like this kit did.  It definitely added a lot to our physics course.