LightSward
Flashlight Enthusiast
May be obtaining one of the few remaining 30 inch diameter, Vietnam era, very powerful, deep parabolic reflector military searchlights rated at 1.2 billion candle power. These were also used to illuminate the Space Shuttle Night Launches and as emergency lighting at the ends of the runway for the Shuttle landings.
potentially I will soon possess one of these beauties that has been vandalized, copper stripped, reflector pitted and dull, lighting electronics largely missing. My Project is to convert this into a similar configuration using my HMI 4,000 watt 385,000 lumen bulb with almost the exact same arc gap as the original Xenon bulb in it's place. Depending on the reflector condition I may "spot cover" with the reflective tape I use and or make a mold from this reflector and manufacture my own to preserve the original and allow experimentation on my new one. I expect similar results from this as the one I was able to move around when i was just 12 years old back at the end of the Vietnam War when three of these searchlights were used at the Nevada Jaycee Sate Fair.
My first mission is to secure and transport the searchlight a thousand miles to my shop and have a little space too. Pricing amongst the freighters is a little more tricky and difficult than I imagined.
Neal waves finger of God to FAA:
Stay tuned.:thumbsup:
potentially I will soon possess one of these beauties that has been vandalized, copper stripped, reflector pitted and dull, lighting electronics largely missing. My Project is to convert this into a similar configuration using my HMI 4,000 watt 385,000 lumen bulb with almost the exact same arc gap as the original Xenon bulb in it's place. Depending on the reflector condition I may "spot cover" with the reflective tape I use and or make a mold from this reflector and manufacture my own to preserve the original and allow experimentation on my new one. I expect similar results from this as the one I was able to move around when i was just 12 years old back at the end of the Vietnam War when three of these searchlights were used at the Nevada Jaycee Sate Fair.
My first mission is to secure and transport the searchlight a thousand miles to my shop and have a little space too. Pricing amongst the freighters is a little more tricky and difficult than I imagined.
Neal waves finger of God to FAA:
Stay tuned.:thumbsup:
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