I just had a strange but quite interesting thought.
It is not uncommon to see people building insanely big HID searchlights on the HID forums, but what about LED lights? Has any one ever attempted to build such a contraption with an LED?
I am not just thinking of the one meter wide parabolic reflector type things, but even 30cm wide and deep reflectors.
A possibility that I just started thinking of five minutes ago is to build something like a bucket of light, which would consist of... You guessed it a bucket with a great big reflector. I am thinking specifically of an old zinc bucket with a reflector matched to the inner circumference of the bucket with a tiny LED mounted on an over-sized heatsink and driven as hard as possible. It would be a cool thing to put in your garden
Just don't take this too seriously as I don't have any concrete plans of building one for the lack of tooling experience.
Anyhow. Does anyone know of any crazy projects involving great big reflectors and LED light sources?
It is not uncommon to see people building insanely big HID searchlights on the HID forums, but what about LED lights? Has any one ever attempted to build such a contraption with an LED?
I am not just thinking of the one meter wide parabolic reflector type things, but even 30cm wide and deep reflectors.
A possibility that I just started thinking of five minutes ago is to build something like a bucket of light, which would consist of... You guessed it a bucket with a great big reflector. I am thinking specifically of an old zinc bucket with a reflector matched to the inner circumference of the bucket with a tiny LED mounted on an over-sized heatsink and driven as hard as possible. It would be a cool thing to put in your garden
Just don't take this too seriously as I don't have any concrete plans of building one for the lack of tooling experience.
Anyhow. Does anyone know of any crazy projects involving great big reflectors and LED light sources?