An amazing project, an enthralling read, and very inspirational. Well done Enderman.
This wasnât planned. I was taking my precious kitty out onto the rear deck for some night air and hunting and what did I see? No, it couldnât be! Is that a 60â Carbon Arc (with a poor mirror). So I had to drive down to see what it was. Turns out it was a 1000 Watt single Sky Tracker style Short Arc being used at a night event at a local golf course. I couldnât get in to get up close but it looked to be at least a 14â or larger reflector and a minimum of 1000 Watts. Could have been more. I drove home and latched onto my Syniosbeam and went back. I found a parking spot about 150 feet from the tracker. I put my jacket on top of the car and the Syniosbeam on top of the jacket and lit it off on low. Not much there. I bumped it up about half way and WOW, not bad compared to the tracker. Took it up to HIGH and WOW again! This looks better than the tracker! I think the tracker beam at its base looks a tiny bit brighter but the SB definitely more focused and has a tighter beam. Feast your eyes below. SB on the right and tracker on the left and about 150 feet further distant from the camera. This is just a Galaxy S8 pic so not the best. There was little bits of moist and visible air floating around which accounts for the dramatic beam dimming of the tracker further up in the beam so donât judge performance of either light on that. Concentrate on the lower parts. The SB beam looks almost parallel while the tracker beam looks âVâ shaped. I walked about 200â distant and the Syniosbeam was every bit high reaching as the tracker. This is one stunning performer!
Thatâs an amazing pic, I never had a foggy day come around during the time the CFT90 syniosbeam was in my hands
Luckily the beam is still very visible on a regular night
Great pic. :+1:
My 22lb capacity tripod head arrived yesterday so I now have a way to shoot my new Syniosbeam 200 Watt +/- CFT-90 equipped searchlight weighing in at 12 lbs. I continue to be more and more amazed at the performance of this LED searchlight. Itâs LED retro-fires into an 11â parabolic reflector and is water cooled running at up to 40 Amps to the LED on HIGH. The pics tonight of the Syniosbeam did not come out as clear as those shot some time ago of the Leopard tank light being used for comparison. Maybe itâs because not as much concentrated light is hitting the target. Iâm going to try another night to see if I can get clearer shots. But I must say I was truly amazed at how the light lit up from 3 to 4 acres of land at 1.07 miles distance with a tremendous amount of light, all from about 5,000 Lumens. At 40 Lumens per Watt, the Leopard light is putting out about 18,000 Lumens and in a much more concentrated beam. With the Snyiosbeam and my naked eye, I could easily see the top of the hill lit up at 1.07 miles and with my Zeiss Binocs, I said a few expletives when I first glimpsed the target. Itâs THAT good!
Syniosbeam Zoomed but not as close as the tank light below. Also, itâs but too bright - For target identification only
Tank light higher zoom than SB
Syniosbeam - About what I was thru the binocs
Tank Light
Syniosbeam No Zoom
Tank Light
They are both impressive.
But that mentioned tank light is in 20mcd plus range?
Yes, we measured around 55Mcd for it at a meeting here in Germany.
And what is the diameter of this beast?
Those are the lights which real flashaholics want.
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oh⌠my⌠godâŚ,
by all that is holy and unholyâŚ.
Mr Enderman took the BAT SIGNAL light from batman comics?
and used it as a âsmall scale modelâ that needed improvedâŚLMAO
to say that i am âhighly impressedâ? would be an understatement.
the ONLY âconceptâ you donât have a full grasp of? is what a âbudgetâ means, LMAO.
hope you donât hate me⌠i didnât mean to leave footprints on your coat tails, ha ha
i wish i could get you into night vision, i would love to see the IR illuminator you would come up withâŚ
it would have a 4-watt single mode 850nm laser⌠NASA would âWant to borrow itâ when they needed to illuminate a satellite from Florida peninsula, lolâŚ
i could probably âmake coffeeâ with the liquid cooling systemâŚ
âSEDstar?? only leave the fan off for no more than 12 seconds, this pot of coffee, okay?â
âwhy?â
âcoffee picks up the bitter oils, when brewed much over 190 degrees FahrenheitâŚâ
âokayâŚâ
lol
PS - never âtake the medicationâ they offer you for âlowering your blood pressureâ⌠it will make THIS go away? and we donât want that!
Sedstar sedâŚâŚ
âoh⌠my⌠godâŚ,
by all that is holy and unholyâŚ.
Mr Enderman took the BAT SIGNAL light from batman comics?
and used it as a âsmall scale modelâ that needed improvedâŚLMAO
to say that i am âhighly impressedâ? would be an understatement.â
Meh. Color me neutral white impressed when he gets that kind of output from a AAA penlight. I think heâs sandbagging us.
I have an AAA penlight coming in the mail, first one Iâll own.
Speaking of the cooling system, it immediately begins spreading itâs warmth fairly symmetrically around the 1/4â thick x 12â Aluminum tube shell. It is surprising to me how much heat is being transferred and how quickly considering that the shell is a full quarter-inch thick.
I used an entire huge 20g tube of MX4 to sink the copper coil to the body
I was surprised at how warm the body gets under load, definitely canât run a 200W LED in this recoil configuration with anything other than liquid cooling.
After yer done modding it remember not to point it at aircraft flying below 40,000 feet.
Best if ya keep it 1xAAA as a sorta built in output governor, Governor. Cover yer eyes too. :person_facepalming:
After yer done modding it remember not to point it at aircraft flying below 40,000 feet.
Best if ya keep it 1xAAA as a sorta built in output governor, Governor. Cover yer eyes too. :person_facepalming:
This has to be one of the most awesome and entertaining build threads ever⌠great work and design, it has been an inspirationâŚ
This has to be one of the most awesome and entertaining build threads ever⌠great work and design, it has been an inspirationâŚ
Thank you!
Wow, just Wow!! Don't have time to find all the specs and pics though. This is a big thread.
Any chance youâre going to manufacture and sell these bad boys? (: