The There Are No Stupid Questions Thread

If you could fire a laser in one direction of the cosmos and it didn’t disperse or hit anything that would absorb it, given enough time. would you see it coming from the opposite direction from where you sent it?

Maybe in a few million years if you were still alive. :smiley:

LOL, I could not resist. It’s not my norm.

Will the BangGood A17DD driver cook the LED in my Ultrafire C8? I’m asking for a friend…

Which end of the flashlight lights up? :stuck_out_tongue:

Both… hehe

How close to the ceiling does a fly get before it flips upside down and sticks?

And will a Q8 blind it?

The opposite to the one that doesn’t :stuck_out_tongue:

Is there something like Moore’s law with LED emitters?
I’ve refreshed many old lights with newer emitters and the increased output is amazing.
Will I look back on today’s emitters 10 years from now and laugh at how weak they are or has this technology been nearly pushed to its limit?

Not asking for crystal ball answers, just wondering if anyone has deep knowledge of how far this can go.

If it is a genuine cree, no problem

Is the DX80 in turbo mode strong enough to spot a hiding Sasquatch?

Is this a stupid question?

As long as you have most of the other prerequisites:-

A camera that cannot focus
Shaky hands
A lack of corroborating witnesses
Redneck ancestry

Title of this thread... "The There Are No Stupid Questions Thread"

......I think I have a lot of those prerequisites. Photos to soon follow of blurry images of something that really is just a blurry image and to others a sign of big foot.

If the led is soldered onto a alumnium non-DTP board (this is what the Ultrafire C8 likely came with), yes probably it will cook. If the led is soldered onto a copper DTP-board (such as a Sinkpad, Noctigon or KD-DTP board) and is clamped down with some hermal compound in between, it will be fine.

With led technology, there is a theoretical limit of about 300 lumen/W for white leds (a bit more for green leds). We are now at over 200 lumen/W so for led efficiency at least Moore’s law certainly does not apply. But we may be able to stuff more and more power in a little volume and make ever so brighter leds, but they require ever more powerful batteries (and regarding Moore’s law and batteries: regardless of the chemistry you can only stuff so much energy in a volume before you are litterally producing bombs) . And with laser pumped phosfor light sources that are just now on the market that power/volume is rising again.

Overall I see exciting improvements ahead but also too many theoretical limits to believe that Moore’s law will apply on leds.

Will governments regulate lumen output in a few years?

Here BU-101: When Was the Battery Invented? - Battery University
below figure 3
It applies to every battery.
Instead of two metals LiIon uses Lithium (–3. something volts against carbon)

Plus, most sightings occur in the presence of either Jack Daniels (Northern latitudes) or Jose Quervo (Southern latitudes).