HID Beam Pics

Patriot36
Nice Beamshots from Blue22 also. I can't remember you posting beamies before.

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Hello Patriot, and thank you! I also posted some pictures of my lights HERE. I'll be adding a beamshot of my Thor 15mcp to my above post later tonight.:)

I have taken quite a few beamshots of the AmondoTech Titanium Mega Illuminator and felt it was time to post them.:)

Here it is lighting up a shed 50 yards away:



Here is its laser like beam going into the sky:




This is the Mega lighting up the top of a tree around 50 yards away:




Here is the Mega Illuminator lighting up the side of my house. This picture does a good job of showing its huge corona:



I have already posted a picture of the light itself HERE. :)

Vector POB:

Welcome to CPF, inspireit.

Excellent photos! However would you re-size them please - they are too large. The maximum size allowed is 800 x 800 pixels.

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I just took a quick pic in the garden showing the Streamlight Litebox HID and my PH50..

PH50 left and Litebox right..
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Very impressive shot. From the pic the Streamlight Litebox produces at least as if not a more impressive bean than the significantly more expensive PH50 !:eek:
That said which HID do you guys feel is the better buy- the Streamlight Litebox , AmondoTech N30 or AmondoTech Titanium Mega Illuminator , and why ?

Electric Factory said:

Very impressive shot. From the pic the Streamlight Litebox produces at least as if not a more impressive bean than the significantly more expensive PH50 !:eek:
That said which HID do you guys feel is the better buy- the Streamlight Litebox , AmondoTech N30 or AmondoTech Titanium Mega Illuminator , and why ?

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You might also notice that the light coming from the PH50 is more intense.
The Lightbox, 3350 lumens, has a tighter beam but doesn't produce more light output than the PH50, 5000+ lumens. As you may be able to see in the picture the PH50 is quite small compared to the hulking Lightbox.

Which is the better buy is a difficult question to answer because it's subjective and depends on your mission. If I was lost in the woods overnight during an autumn downpour my PH50 would probably be the best buy I ever made. :) That said, the N30 would get the all around value trophy in my book. It does everything that an HID should and it's wrapped into a nice compact package. It comes much closer to some of the PH50's benchmark attributes than the other two lights. You'll probably notice that most people with a lot of HID lights tend to reach for the handy compact sized lights far more often than the large heavy ones. The smaller lights handle 90% of my HID needs out to 500 yards. If I need to see further I'll reluctantly go and pull the Titanium Mega off the shelf....mine is the older, original Costco version.

Electric Factory said:

Very impressive shot. From the pic the Streamlight Litebox produces at least as if not a more impressive bean than the significantly more expensive PH50 !:eek:
That said which HID do you guys feel is the better buy- the Streamlight Litebox , AmondoTech N30 or AmondoTech Titanium Mega Illuminator , and why ?

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I own both the N30 and Mega Illuminator. I feel they are equally great lights and equally good values, but they serve different purposes. The N30 is only a fraction of the size of the Mega Illuminator, making it a more practical all-around light. The N30 is only about the size of a 6 volt floating lantern flashlight while the Mega Illuminator is almost as large as a microwave oven.
The Mega Illuminator throws a lot farther than the N30, and has a considerably brighter beam. I own 15 million candlepower and 17.5 million candlepower spotlights which both out throw the N30, but don't come near the Mega Illuminator in throw.

The Mega Illuminator and N30 are equally great choices IMO, it just depends on what your needs, preferences, and purposes are. :)

To my knowledge the Streamlight Litebox's relfector is only a little over 7'' whereas the Mega Illuminator's reflector measures exactly 9''. This means the Mega Illuminator is likely to have more throw and a more concentrated/intense beam than the LiteBox. However, since I don't own the Litebox and have had no experience with it, this is just my educated guess about how it would compare to the Mega Illuminator in throw. Of course it is possible that the Litebox has just as much if not more throw than the Mega Illuminator.

Overall I recommend getting the Mega Illuminator as it is the single biggest "WOW factor" light that I have ever owned.

Hi All

A few of the BeamShots from my PX200-HID

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240 Yards to Pylon





Park - 130 Yards to Trees



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3 Beams f4 - 1/6Sec - ISO100


Misty Moon

Hi Petrev,
awesome photos of beamshots, read your thread and can say that I'm impressed with what you have done :thumbsup:

Nice shots petrev. That X200 really grabs my attention... :)

Well I got that new camera I'd been crowing about earlier so here (at last) is a relatively clean beam shot of my 50w PF-HID conversion, still figuring out all the extra features, here's the target (test subject) an old local derelict house a (measured) 300m from the roadway OR 328 yards (984 feet)

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M@elstrom,

That is an awesome beamshot!!

Are those black and white lumps in the grass COWS???



Heres a Beamshot of the new Surefire Hellfighter I picked up.

DaFABRICATA said:

M@elstrom,

That is an awesome beamshot!!

Are those black and white lumps in the grass COWS???

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Thanks & yes they're moo cows :D

BTW nice Hell Fighter! :thumbsup:

I have taken some new beamshots of my HID lights that I wanted to share.:)

First, here are the two lights being compared, which are the Vector Power On Board HID and AmondoTech Titanium Mega Illuminator (sorry for poor quality photo, it was taken using my Brinkmann Maxfire Dual Xenon Spotlight for light):




Here are the lights shining on a plant around 25 yards away, with the hotspots centered on the plant.

Vector Power On Board HID:




Now the Titanium Mega Illuminator:




Vector POB shining at the top of a nearby tree:




Mega Illuminator:




Finally, a skyward shot of the Mega Illuminator's beam.




The Mega Illuminator is brighter than the Vector POB and has quite a bit more throw. Their beams are both visible in the sky from a very long distance away (easily visible from 100 yards distance), and the TI Mega's beam is thinner, more concentrated, and appears to go up farther which makes it more impressive to me.

DaFABRICATA said:

M@elstrom,

That is an awesome beamshot!!

Are those black and white lumps in the grass COWS???



Heres a Beamshot of the new Surefire Hellfighter I picked up.

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So what do have in the 1780?

Wow! Love the beams, they are HUGE!

Here is the AmondoTech HID N30 lighting up a power line pole around 150-200 yards away. It is such an amazing thrower. The pole might appear to be on top of the house but it is actually just very tall and about 200 feet behind it by a highway outside of my neighborhood.

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N30 Beamshot:




Here is the N30 putting visible light on the top of a very distant church. I don't know the distance exactly but it is several hundred yards away.

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With N30:



Here is the N30 lighting up the side of a strip mall outside of my neighborhood and across the highway, around 300 yards away.

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N30 turned on:



Looking across my neighborhood street at a house 200-300 yards away, control:



N30 lighting up house with hotspot centered between windows:



Control, looking at another distant house at the entrance of my neighborhood:


N30 lighting up the side:



I usually never shine my lights at the other houses but feel it is necessary to light them up for a few seconds sometimes to get these great beamshots.:)


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Control, looking out towards highway around 250 yards away:



N30 lighting up distant power line pole beside highway:

Here you can see my Mag T5 beamshots at 45W :whistle:

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and power into dark: :Buttrock:


another shots:


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When I come back from holiday I publish new beamshots for you...

Happy Easter from Poland!
Damian

Nice shots! Gotta love them HID's huh. I never get tired of them because they're just so surprising every time they're switched on. Nothing else like em :)

I really need to take my HID to somewhere where I can actually test the range. There are trees and other houses around me, so I have not yet found its maximum range. The street I live on bends away after about 700 feet, and it still managed to illuminate the trees on the far side of the road. I really need to go to an empty field and find a challenge for it.