What's the most powerful light available?

[lasercrazy]

What\'s the most powerful light available?

Say size and $$$ weren't an issue. What's the most powerful light? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Nitro]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

The sun.

 

[Sway]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

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Nitro said:
The sun.

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lasercrazy

Are you asking about hand held lights or xenon short arc search lights that are hauled around on a trailer?

Later
Sway

 

[larryk]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

What about the light on top of the Luxfur Hotel in Vegas ?

 

[Nitro]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

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larryk said:
What about the light on top of the Luxfur Hotel in Vegas ?

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I think Sway's light is brighter. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[illumiGeek]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

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Nitro said:
The sun.

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Actually there are MUCH brighter lights than the Sun (larger stars, supernovas, quasars). The Sun just happens to be closer.

The brightest handheld light would probably be a large photo flash. Not much on duration, though.

The brightest non-flash handheld light is most probably some CPFers crazy creation. The Ken4, Wilkey's Aurora and Sway's HID 240 mod come to mind...

 

[udaman]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

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larryk said:
What about the light on top of the Luxfur Hotel in Vegas ?

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You mean this one?

Hmmm, doesn't Lex Luthor own that one also? But as far as aliens go, doesn't Clark Kent have a pair of high powered laser eyeballs?

Umm, probably Bush Jr. knows, hehehe; but he's not telling. Left over SDI lasers still being worked on at Area 51, I would guess. Some pretty potent lasers needed to burn a hole in the skin of ICBM's. I suppose it depends on what you qualify as 'available' to mean?

 

[Phaserburn]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

I've stayed at the Luxor. That light is serious.

The hotel is very campy and cool. The elevators go up and down at a 40 degree angle to match the sides of the building. You definitely feel the lateral motion as you rise. It's weird.

 

[kakster]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

If you want something a little more portable, then Optronic's Megaray seems to be the pinnacle of high brightness lighting.

Reviewed here by CPF member Cones (you jammy sod /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif )

175 watts of HID goodness, 4 figure price tag.

 

[lasercrazy]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

I was looking at the x990 and wanted to know if there was a better light.

 

[INRETECH]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

www.peakbeam.com

 

[NikolaTesla]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

A 30 ton vat of liquid steel at 3000 degrees is so bright you need blue googles. A carbon Arc cutter at about 200 amps is real bright too. But seriously, an X990 is a good combination for $500. The UK Light Cannon 100 is only $170 but much smaller than X990 (500 lumens Vs 3200 though). I like both.
Those other Superlights run into Thousands of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

NikolaTesla /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif


An Arc lamp is the Spark that takes away the Dark--HID Forever!
Recent additions to My Lights: *** http://www.tjtech.org/gallery/NikolaTesla/Dscn3236

 

[Sway]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

lasercraze,

I agree with Nikola the X990 is the best bang for the buck, long run time, extra battery pack, good charger set up all in a nice package it's hard to beat for the price.

The X990 will out Lum the MaxaBEAM and may be even the 175W Megaray but it will not out throw them different tool for a different job, buy them all /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Later
Sway

PS: If you have truck a pair of these are a must have for the roll bar and the price is not bad at $595.00 each considering but the postage may be a little high /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/poke2.gif

 

[illumiGeek]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

Wow! Paypal sent (NOT)!

 

[Tweek]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

DAYUM! Could get a tan off those suckers... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Chris

 

[phyhsuts]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

For a long throw light I would guess the Space Cannon Ramese 50,000 . For shear amount of light, the Vortex water wall hydrogen arc lamp .
Just my two cents. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[illumiGeek]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

So how many SF123s does that Vortex need? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[FlashlightOCD]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

It would seem the x990 is kind of a defacto-standard for HID. I'm sure you can find more expensive ones like the Megaray mentioned above.

I think the cheap VectorLites give you plenty of light for just a little bit of money [~$20-$40], but they are not very good for run time compared to the x990.

 

[FNinjaP90]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

A hypernova. It is estimated that if one were to explode 20 light years away(that can't happen), it would release enough energy to still melt away our atmosphere and...kill us.

 

[Cones]

Re: What\'s the most powerful light available?

I love this pic /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Megaray 175 from 600-700 Meters.

Mark