Swiss Spotlight with Generator

[SwatDude]

Has anyone seen or used this??? Seems like a bargain with its own generator.

http://store.oldgrouch.biz/swarspandge.html

I did a search on CPF but didn't find anything on it.

 

[PsychoBunny]

Provided it even works, what would you use it for?

 

[SwatDude]

Provided it even works, what would you use it for?

Fun!

 

[Illum]

reminds me of BVH's blackhawk locater....he had quite fun with that:naughty:

its HID though, designed to be on an aircraft

 

[SwatDude]

What type of bulb do you think this uses??? Any idea how many lumens it would put out?

On a side note, have all of the short arc tank lights dried up?? It seems like a small, quiet Honda generator would be a good match for that light if you could invert it to the correct voltage.

 

[Illum]

being that there is little to no info on this light anywhere...I wouldn't be the one to ask

 

[richardcpf]

That is not a self-energy-generating-spotlight, thats a spotlight hooked up to a generator.

Reminds me of the flying flashlight.

 

[yellow]

hmm :thinking:

instead of such, I would purchase a good car spotlight and add something to be able to grip it.
Hella makes some with broad to pencil beam.
Can be run from any 12 V source.
Much cheaper than any of those things above

 

[SwatDude]

I have an L35. I wasn't considering this for something functional. I just thought it was interesting and if it was as bright as that short arc tank light I would jump on it just for the fun of it.

 

[brickbat]

What type of bulb do you think this uses??? Any idea how many lumens it would put out?

I have a similar-looking 2-cycle military surplus generator. It was built in the 1940's.

So, assuming this is a similar vintage, I seriously doubt the lamp is anything other than incandescent. With the generator being listed at 400W, the lamp wold be less, maybe 300W or so, which would be around 5000-6000 lumens.

 

[BSBG]

Hmm, that is interesting. I have spent nearly that much on lights that didn't come with their own internal combustion engine .

 

[SwatDude]

I have a similar-looking 2-cycle military surplus generator. It was built in the 1940's.

So, assuming this is a similar vintage, I seriously doubt the lamp is anything other than incandescent. With the generator being listed at 400W, the lamp wold be less, maybe 300W or so, which would be around 5000-6000 lumens.

How much is a 300W HID Bulb and ballast and do they even make them?? That would be make it worth the money IMO.

 

[SwatDude]

Hmm, that is interesting. I have spent nearly that much on lights that didn't come with their own internal combustion engine .

And there my friend is the reason electric cars haven't taken off!!! Batteries are expensive.

Don't forget it comes with it's own chair too.

 

[tebore]

I have a similar-looking 2-cycle military surplus generator. It was built in the 1940's.

So, assuming this is a similar vintage, I seriously doubt the lamp is anything other than incandescent. With the generator being listed at 400W, the lamp wold be less, maybe 300W or so, which would be around 5000-6000 lumens.

Could be a carbon arc, the great grand pappy of today's HIDs.

 

[larryk]

Here's another one for $ 699.95 or $ 399.95 without the generator.

http://go-armynavy.com/index.php/vmchk/collectibles/swiss/swiss-spotlight-with-generator.html

 

[SwatDude]

Here's another one for $ 699.95 or $ 399.95 without the generator.

http://go-armynavy.com/index.php/vmchk/collectibles/swiss/swiss-spotlight-with-generator.html

Funny, if you enlarge the photo it almost looks like a screw in light bulb.

 

[Cigarman]

Sure looks like the chromy looking top of a projector type lamp. Some of those are 300-400+ watts. Perhaps that is what they used. Easier than trying to miniaturize carbon arc rods

 

[Guy's Dropper]

It looks too small to be carbon arc, but then again, I don't really know much about carbon arc lights.