Stanley H.I.D. and 1365 lumen spotlights (Part 1)

Re: New Stanley H.I.D. and 1365 lumen spotlights

Crushing the return wire ceramic cover will not affect bulb life at all. Any 35 Watt rated bulb will work fine. The little bit of extra time spent at our estimated 60 Watt turbo start mode will not shorten bulb life enough to even think about. Technically, yes it will, but you'll probably have purchased another dozen or so HID lights before the Stanley will wear out a bulb. If you're an electronic engineer, I would image you could modify (replace parts?) the ballast to accomplish a 60 Watt continuous output. However, I would guess that the rest of the parts inside (or many of them) would not stand up to the 60 Watt power level and you'd have some serious heat issues to deal with. I guess in other words, technically yes it could be done but it probably would not last for long. You're really looking at buying a higher power light designed for the higher power.

Re: New Stanley H.I.D. and 1365 lumen spotlights

Walmart in Brea, CA has one left. They had two earlier in the day...:)

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Mjolnir said:

Any chance of outside beamshots?

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Check out the first couple of pages....plenty of them there.... :party:

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I just bought this Stanley HID spotlight a few days ago, and I am amazed by it! It equals the 6000K POB in throw, but appears to light up distant objects even better because it has a much wider hotspot and corona. I love the turbo start in which it easily out throws the Mega Illuminator for a couple seconds before dropping to its intended output. I was in awe of it tonight when I took it out to the fields across the street and lit up all of the distant trees. It has a throw of around 1000 yards and an incredible laser like beam that makes trees 500 yards away appear as they do in daylight. Its hotspot is perfectly round and extremely intense.

I really love my Stanley, and like it just as much as the Mega Illuminator. It is quite a novelty to have an HID pistol grip as pistol grips are my favorite by far.

Here is a picture of the Stanley:



Here it is next to the other lights I will be comparing it to:



Here it is next to the well known Black&Decker V2 Million Power Series from Home Depot. The Stanley out throws the Black&Decker by such an enormous amount that it is in a totally different class.




Here is the top of the Stanley with the LED light on:




Here is the back of the light:




A reflector shot of the Stanley:



Reflector shot of the N30:



Reflector shot of the POB:



Reflector shot of the Mega Illuminator:




Reflector shot of the Black&Decker V2 million:




Beamshots:

Here is the Black&Decker shining at the top of a tree 30 yards away:



Here is the N30:



Here is the POB:



The Mega Illuminator:




And finally, the Stanley!






And here is the Stanley sending its laser like beam around 300 yards across one of the fields and lighting up the top of a distant tree:

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The only beamshot I can see is the one of the stanley.:thinking:

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Nice size comparison and beam pictures Bluebeam!

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Patriot36 said:

Nice size comparison and beam pictures Bluebeam!

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Thank you very much Patriot36!:) I will be taking some more soon, and will try to get beamshots of it shining at objects at different distances. It is quite a novelty to have an HID pistol grip as pistol grips are by far my favorite style.

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Can you take a pic of the Stanley in turbo mode please? It should look like a mini maxabeam :faint:

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I went to two Houston area Wal Marts today to buy one of the Stanleys....no joy.

I'll keep trying.

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richardcpf said:

Can you take a pic of the Stanley in turbo mode please? It should look like a mini maxabeam :faint:

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Sure!:thumbsup:



It really does remind me of the MaxaBeam on turbo! To my knowledge there is no spotlight on the market at any price except for a short arc xenon spotlight (which would of course out throw the Stanley on turbo) that could match the Stanley's throw on turbo. In the few seconds of turbo mode it was able to BRIGHTLY illuminate trees I estimated to be around 1000 yards away.

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I found one of these at the local Walmart and it looks very nice in the basement. Tonight I'll be checking it out for real.
The lead-acid battery weighs in at 2 pounds. 8 18650's (two 4 cell 14.8v series sets in parallel) would be about half the weight and nearly twice the run time! I wonder how the lamp would do at 14.8v (work or smoke) and how well 4 18650's charge in series?

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So I got mine and turned it on- red light on the back. Ok understandable. Charged it till it turned green, and waited a bit longer (this was maybe a half hour of charging). Used it for 30 seconds and it went red. So then I realized ok it needs to charge for 8 hours or so to get the full charge.

I came back after the recommended charging period, and when I unplugged it, the bulb started strobing once every half second or so. Keep in mind this was with the light off. I fired it up for a minute or so, and the light on the back turned red again. I wondered what I was going to do, because having this bright strobe going all night wasn't an option. I switched the "dimmer" switch on and it stopped the strobing, but caused the red led to dimly flash very quickly.

What's wrong with my light? I must say I really didn't need this light, but I saw it on the shelf and figured what the hell. Now I'm pretty much considering taking it back.

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I am a bit concerned with a slightly "brown" tint near the top of the light spill. Upon looking at the bulb, it appears that there is some sort of "beaded" liquid forming within the bulb.

Is this normal?

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Are you saying the HID bulb was flashing when you unplugged the charger from the spotlight? If the led was flashing when you unplugged the charger it may be a defective battery or other component or just a bad connection inside.
You could try using the cig. lighter cable and see if it operates normally.

Either way it sounds like a defect worth exchanging the product over.

Stillphoto said:

So I got mine and turned it on- red light on the back. Ok understandable. Charged it till it turned green, and waited a bit longer (this was maybe a half hour of charging). Used it for 30 seconds and it went red. So then I realized ok it needs to charge for 8 hours or so to get the full charge.

I came back after the recommended charging period, and when I unplugged it, the bulb started strobing once every half second or so. Keep in mind this was with the light off. I fired it up for a minute or so, and the light on the back turned red again. I wondered what I was going to do, because having this bright strobe going all night wasn't an option. I switched the "dimmer" switch on and it stopped the strobing, but caused the red led to dimly flash very quickly.

What's wrong with my light? I must say I really didn't need this light, but I saw it on the shelf and figured what the hell. Now I'm pretty much considering taking it back.

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TheQase said:

I am a bit concerned with a slightly "brown" tint near the top of the light spill. Upon looking at the bulb, it appears that there is some sort of "beaded" liquid forming within the bulb.

Is this normal?

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The first thing I did with mine was to carefully crush the ceramic tube that surrounds the wire to the lamp. It made a little shadow so away with it. I used the tiny corner of a bench vise. I then slightly bent the lamp well of the reflector to center up the light pattern. I'll get a good look tonight.
The inside of the xenon arc/hid bulbs have always looked a little knarly. Generally when they do fail they either won't ignite (turn on) or they go pop while working.

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TheQase said:

I am a bit concerned with a slightly "brown" tint near the top of the light spill. Upon looking at the bulb, it appears that there is some sort of "beaded" liquid forming within the bulb.

Is this normal?

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Those are the metal "salts" within the arc tube that create the light-making reaction. They coalesce at room temperature, which to the eye appears to be a brown residue stuck in one particular place inside the tube - when you first turn your light on, it projects this spot as a brown region in the beam profile, but this goes away after the bulb is warmed up and the reaction evens out. It's a totally normal part/function of the HID bulb.

Stillphoto said:

What's wrong with my light? I must say I really didn't need this light, but I saw it on the shelf and figured what the hell. Now I'm pretty much considering taking it back.

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You should only charge until the indicator light is green, then run down the light completely and start the cycle again.

There's no way of knowing what exactly your overcharging has done (the rapidly blinking red light is a bad sign), but you might still be able to salvage it if you can get the bulb started normally; just run the light until it dies completely and then try charging again. If you can't get the bulb to start at all, I'd take it back to the store for an exchange and try again.

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Multiple, repetitive testing on 3 lights has shown that charging well beyond the "led turning green" has no near-term negative results as described by stillphoto. The charger does completely turn off usually within about an hour after the led goes green. I've left my two lights on the chargers for 24 hour periods multiple times with none of the effects stillphoto describes.

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StarHalo said:

If you can't get the bulb to start at all, I'd take it back to the store for an exchange and try again.

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+1. I agree with taking it back for an exchange. I think this light is well worth giving it another shot. Maybe that other light you said the Brea store has is still there.

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K, found one at the Tomball Wal Mart.

There's one more left for anyone in the northern area of Houston wanting one.

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I find that the led goes red pretty much immediately when I turn on the light. Even plugged into the cigarette lighter its red. If I start the car so the voltage is up around 14 volts the light turns green after a few seconds. I think the led remaining charge indicator is just not very accurate.
I also see the brown region at around 12'o clock in the beam even after 4 minutes of on-time. Maybe the lamp is being driven at a very low power level. This is one very very bright and inexpensive little light. Very impressive. I want to make it lose one pound and gain runtime with some lithium rechargables.