Spot on cheap?

[wolfeinstein]

can you guys recomend an inexpensive spot light around $100 that has a lot of output Basically inexpensive but still good quality!

 

[BlueBeam22]

The STANLEY rechargeable High Intensity Discharge spotlight bought at Wal-Mart for $70 will fit your needs perfectly and blow you away with its power. It is one of the longest throwing handheld spotlights currently available and can light up objects at 1000 yards distance. It has a runtime of 30 minutes at 100% brightness (no dimming) and can be run directly from its car adaptor cord which is a huge plus. It puts out 3000 lumens and to my knowledge is brighter than any Incandescent/Halogen spotlight available. It blows away my 17.5 million candlepower spotlight!
You can see my pictures and beamshots of it here: LINK. It can be found in the automotive lighting section rather than the standard sporting goods section you find lights in at Wal-Mart.

Another extremely powerful spotlight that I own and highly recommend is the Black&Decker V2 Million power series spotlight bought at Home Depot for $30. It is not as powerful as the Stanley but is still unbelievably powerful and has a beam range of around 800 yards. LINK

Not all Wal-Marts carry the Stanley HID, so the Black&Decker is the next best option and can be found at any Home Depot.

:welcome:

 

[PsychoBunny]

+1 on that Stanley HID.
My friend has one and I got to play with it at his place.
Awesome!! I was very impressed.

Wasting no time, I rushed home and ordered one from Amazon

 

[Mjolnir]

The beam on the stanley is somewhat odd, and it isn't focused as well as it could be. However, for the price it is still fine, especially since it has other features, like the car charger and the "instant startup."

 

[Benson]

The beam on the stanley is somewhat odd, and it isn't focused as well as it could be. However, for the price it is still fine, especially since it has other features, like the car charger and the "instant startup."

Yeah, it appears all the Stanleys have the bulb in crooked, from a misfeature of the retaining clip setup. I still haven't got mine opened up (waiting for my 4300K upgrade bulb to arrive), but from what others have said, it's apparently pretty straightforward to tweak, and proper alignment improves the beam greatly.

I agree with the recommendation, BTW -- I think the Stanley will be the new standard entry-level HID, taking over from the venerable Vector POB.

 

[Mjolnir]

I opened mine up, but it didn't appear that there was anything that could really be adjusted. The ring around the bulb goes behind the reflector, and the retaining ring just holds it there. It doesn't seem to have any effect on the actual angle of the bulb. This seems to be determined by the angle of the opening at the bottom of the reflector. I really don't understand what people are talking about about the retaining ring...

 

[Benson]

I opened mine up, but it didn't appear that there was anything that could really be adjusted. The ring around the bulb goes behind the reflector, and the retaining ring just holds it there. It doesn't seem to have any effect on the actual angle of the bulb. This seems to be determined by the angle of the opening at the bottom of the reflector. I really don't understand what people are talking about about the retaining ring...

Hmm.. maybe it'll be more interesting when I get mine open, then... I thought the clip put force on one side or something, and it was necessary to shim it to apply even pressure all around. If my reflector is just out-of-square on the bottom, I guess I'll have at it with a file. My bulbs arrived today, though, so I'll post what I did in the main Stanley thread if I figure it out...

 

[Mjolnir]

The shimming seems to be to get the lateral position of the bulb at the right length away from the base of the reflector. I couldn't figure out anything to do to make the x and y axis focus properly. The bulb doesn't move all that much when it is installed, since the ring around the bulb fits in a socket at the back of the reflector.

 

[wolfeinstein]

Ok thx