Extreme Superlights

[java_man]

These are the biggest and baddest on the planet /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

14 Kw HMI lamp 1,250,000 Lumens about 1.5 Billion CP

The Luxor in Vegas. 40 each 7 Kw Xenon 350,000 Lumens ea = 14,000,000 lumens

"tribute in light" 9-11 memorial 88 each 7 Kw Xenon

High Flux solar simulator using a Vortek 200 Kw Argon Arc lamp, over 100 Kw emitted light, they make single lamps up to 500 Kw capable of melting metals (the reflector and lamp are water cooled)

 

[ACMarina]

Gotta do it right, gotta do it big. .

 

[java_man]

I wonder if one of those Vortek bulbs will fit in my Thor?

hmmmm..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/buttrock.gif

 

[MaxaBaker]

Very cool!!!

When I was in Vegas, I don't remember the light-s on the Luxor being "that" bright. Maybe those are just pictures taken in perfect weather. I dunno /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

 

[java_man]

And to keep us puny mortals humble....

Ol Sol 466,489,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Lumens

10+ billion year runtime

Superb throw and flood at same time

No batteries needed ever...but its not rechargable

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[MaxaBaker]

Geeez!!!!! That hurts my eyes to look at that Sun picture at this hour!!!! Note to self: get more coffee /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/str.gif

 

[java_man]

I found this Retro-Superlight...looks to be 1920's vintage

30Kw and 750,000 Lumens

"This lamp has a bulb 12 inches in diameter and 18 inches high. The light which it produces is equal to the combined light from 2,400 electric lamps of the size commonly used in the home. The filament is made of tungsten wire, / inch in diameter and 93 inches long, constructed in four coils. This wire, if drawn into filament wire of the size used in the 25 watt household lamp, would supply filaments for 55,000 such lamps"
National Musem of American History

And how 'bout this beauty made for a light house in 1899 !

15Kw 62,000 Lumens

For some reason, the guy holding it looks less than happy !


And 50 Kw and 75 Kw edison commemorative bulbs

kilokats


And a 120 year old carbon arc...still works !

 

[Ginseng]

Great pictures, Java! Thanks for helping us keep things in perspective.

Wilkey

 

[watt4]

old Sol seems to have some "artifacts". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Not that there's anything wrong with that. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[KevinL]

It is claimed the advantage of the incandescent over the arc lamp is the absence of the flicker caused by the carbon filaments and the softer tone of light rays. With the carbon arc lamps, the light is more of a ghastly white and does not bring out the color tones so much desired in motion picture production.

Looks like the incan-vs-white-light debate has been going on for a while /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Hallis]

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java_man said:
And to keep us puny mortals humble....

Ol Sol 466,489,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Lumens

10+ billion year runtime

Superb throw and flood at same time

No batteries needed ever...but its not rechargable

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Yah but look at those artifacts!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Shane

 

[markdi]

kool pictures

more please

 

[lotsalumens]

Great pictures Java man! That carbon arc lamp in the last one is actually one of mine (my site is VoltNet.com). I have a matching pair that were made somewhere around 1880-1883 by American Electric who later changed to Thomson-Houston, who then merged with the various Edison companies to form GE. I also have a bunch of other types of carbon arcs from the later 1800's and early 1900's, but those two are my oldest and favorite. I took that shot having just brought them home, and that was the first test of one. Lamps like these (and ones made a few years earlier) were the first real electric lights. Carbon arcs were used for municipal and large interior space lighting long before incandescent technology was perfected and mainstreamed. It is interesting to see it all come full circle as high intensity discharge lamps are used more and more these days. These lamps started it all!

Charles

 

[NikolaTesla]

Java, Can I get one of those "Sun" modules in a flashlight size? Are they Hydrogen powered?

NikolaTesla /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

An Arc lamp is the Spark that takes away the Dark--HID Forever!

My Lights

 

[java_man]

hehe small world eh !

I had no idea voltnet was you site lotsalumens !...I had that bookmarked as a favorite....besides modern technology, I love antique technology too...I would love to find a working arclamp like yours...someday perhaps

and in the future...who knows...we may be trading upgrade and mod kits for "Fusion Thor" billion CP handheld searchlights

 

[IsaacHayes]

Charles ah you run voltnet.com. I remeber that site from a few years ago. The furby test was halarious! (I cant spell that right now for some reason!) I've been tempted to get back into HV recently.

 

[lotsalumens]

Small world indeed! One of these days I have to update the whole site since it hasn't been changed in a LONG time and I know there are a bunch of broken links. We had a lot of fun doing that Furby test as well as the Cooking with High Voltage section. However with four kids under three in our home (triplet boys plus a one year old...seriously!), its difficult to get things done these days. Anyway glad you guys like the site. Antique technology really is fascinating.

Zap!

Charles

 

[NewBie]

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BakerOnFire90 said:
Very cool!!!

When I was in Vegas, I don't remember the light-s on the Luxor being "that" bright. Maybe those are just pictures taken in perfect weather. I dunno /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

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