Take one Osram HLX 64655, 4 4Ah Nimh 6 volt sticks, one Coleman hand held spotlight, 3 hours time, a little solder, a new switch, a few connectors and what do you have?
10000 lumens of blinding white power!!
This thing is bright, it obliterates the 3 million CP Vector twin 12 volt light I have. Its beam is huge, bright and white.
I can't even figure out how to do beam shots yet because it just eats everything else up.
I may need to do a capture with my video camera and then pick out a frame to post.
Thanks for the bulb, Ginseng!
Bill
P.S. I just realized this should probably be in the Spotlights/Lanterns/HID forum.
That's pretty impressive coming from a $10 dollar bulb . Let's see - for the price of a 35 watt HID, you could put 9 more in your light, but then you would probably need a license to operate it.
What am I doing wrong to not get these to post correctly?
These are NOT good images, the only purpose they serve is to give you a relative idea of brightness.
The Mule battery was starting to fade a little, I had it on for 6-7 minutes before I got a picture and it had been run quite a bit today just for show and tell!
10,000 Lumens! Check out the size of that hotspot! To the naked eye, most of that apparent artifact isn't noticeable because of the amount of light your eye has to cope with.
As I said, not very good pictures, I'll do better when the Mule Proto is ready to post full on.
10k lumens sounds REALLY cool [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
But i really can't imagine what it would be like, the mag85 in your pics looks weak, but in fact it's powerfull.. but i can't even imaging the power of a mag85 [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
No problem bwaites, just send the whole light over and I'll send you as many beamshots as you want. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Oh, btw, Singapore is full of light pollution, so it's a good chance to see how it fares... Oh, I've got some forest here tooo so if you want, I can take beamshots there.
So please, how was this done? Or do I have to make the drive to Leavenworth, look at the sky and wait for the second sun to rise? Of course, if I dont see the light I can gorge myself on bier and wurst. Some people just cant wait for Oktoberfest.
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The hard part is a reasonably mobile 24 volt power package.
Bill
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How about 2 "2 amp hr" SLA's in series(maybe a swtich for parallel and series operation - 12v & 24v operation). Put it in a small nylon, padded pouch, and wear it on your belt. Wire in a cigarett lighter socket so you can use it for multiple purposes.
Hmmmm... here's some 24V cordless drill packs... expensive but sort of simplifies things. There are also some ready-made lights that use those packs. I wonder if it's feasible to convert the lights to use that Osram bulb.
10000 Lumens?
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