4100 Lumen 300 dollar.. Halogen!?

There's been a thread on this before, but a CPF member let Wicked use his design to make this thing.
http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/Wicked_Lights-74-0.html
The beamshot of it shining off the roof makes it look a lot weaker than 4100 lumens, either that or it's almost entirely flood, and I just can't see a Halogen bulb and 300 dollar flashlight being this bright, not for any sustained period, anyhow.

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The light was mentioned in the current Popular Mechanics, May '08, p. 32.
"The battery burned almost as readily as the paper--it was smoking and dead in just minutes, an outcome our tester called "disturbing" and "dangerous.""

https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/187863

Its based of Mac's design using an Osram lamp. Runtime <20 minutes.

I figured. But I couldn't see them manufacturing a light without testing such stuff. Must be a fluke.

I would more than likely say it is 4100 bulb lumens, the current consensus on CPF is that about 66% of that actually makes it out the front of the light. So that may be your answer of why it doesn't look like 4100 lumens.

maxa beam said:

I figured. But I couldn't see them manufacturing a light without testing such stuff. Must be a fluke.

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The wicked "torch" is marketed as a toy to cook eggs, burn paper, matches etc... They are not really stressing it as a useful illumination tool...
You can get a butane torch to do the same thing for $10

Just as a side note: wicked over estimates the output of their lasers too... I have had pretty good luck with Nova Lasers...

It's Mac's Mag623 mod commercialized.

Stereodude said:

It's Mac's Mag623 mod commercialized.

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which in turn was Wiley's work commercialized if I remember correctly. If there were others before him I apologize but that's who I remember to be among the first ones to be looking at 100w projector bulbs and go, "hmmm......."

After reading Wilkey's posts I was building 100w Maglites with 64623 with 14.4v RC car packs in 2005, at the time at least a few others already did he same(bwaites, etc) Nothing new there. Mine ran for 12 minutes before needing charge, never smoked or anything, but that was a 20-amp rated rocker switch that I rigged up to fit the 3D maglite. The best result was with a 11-cell AA pack with a 63128, the beam was simply beautiful, too bad the filament didn't like over drive and regulation circuits were around then. Rerated a 14.4v pack drove the light at somewhere around 150+ watt.

maxa beam said:

There's been a thread on this before

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Correct. Here it is. This one is therefore unnecessary.