How 'bout an LED thrower that can shut off streetlights? :D

When I was a kid, my dad and I would ride around after deer-spotting. We'd shine a spotlight at streetlamps' sunlight sensors and they'd turn off for 10-15 minutes. I'd love a reflector-based thrower that could do the same...a budget-minded light of course. It wouldn't be worth the several Benjamins that an SR90 costs.

Are there budget LED throwers that have the requisite lux? I understand that for $45 the Ultrafire HD2010 is one of the best XM-L throwers, but how does that XM-L thrower compare to an XR-E based thrower [like a C8] in terms of maximum beam intensity?

(I suppose I can go aspheric but only if it's the only <$40 option )

Some of the reviews for the HD2010 say it can do that. Also check the Sky Ray STL-V2 or FandyFire STL-V6.

There's a guy on u-tube with a TR-X6 who appears to be doing it, but mine won't. :(

HD2010 will turn off streetlamps stock, mine has been modded with a 3.5A driver. I am not sure if its brighter, but it is better regulated. The turbohead clone has been modded with XML current at 2.8A and it too will blind streetlights.

I'll probably go for the HD2010 and swap the stock driver for a 10xAMC7135 board with L-M-H.

Kramer, I haven't seen the bottom light anywhere-I like the two-tone finish.

Thanks for the feedback, guys!

Lets put it this way--the same satisfaction that comes from a C8 XR-E is pretty much the same in the HD2010, but greater because the XM-L thrower is so much brighter. Played with both in a barn door light-up contest last night at a distance of at least 300ish yards. Both are super lights and everyone at the party wanted them above any other lights showcased (including the Sky Ray King!) simply because of their throwing capabilities. There seems to be something primally satisfying about a tight hotspot! lol

Throwers are always-always-always more impressive at CPF meets. Face it, its just more fun shooting a lightsaber / bat-signal beam up in the air than a wall of flood. I like using flood lights for real lighting tasks and playing around with throwers.

I believe that we do need to have a balance of Throwers, Flooders, EDC lights for all purposes of tasks.

The street lamps where i live, would turn on via timers. (7PM) So I could not turn them off even if I wanted to.

Did anyone ever build a real bat-signal?^^

Yes, This is how the saying came about

"Throw for Show and putt for dough"

My favorite club is the driver, but everyone knows the most important one is the putter.

Some years ago when I would set up my telescopes in my suburban yard, I used a laser pointer to turn off the streetlight across the street. The setup consisted of a red laser pointer attached to a gimbal mount and the whole contraption was attached to a second-story window and aimed at the streetlight's sensor (around here, the sensors face north so I was fortunate to be able to hit it). With an external power supply, I could keep that light off for entire viewing sessions and since a red laser's beam is generally hard to see (compared to say, a spotlight or a green laser), it was pretty discrete.

These days, though, there's so much other light pollution that it's not really worth the effort to set the telescopes up in the yard. I have to haul my telescopes out to a farm away from the city.

I'm compelled to grab a throwy light before heading outside, always. Lighting up distant scenery down the driveway (long/straight, lined with forest-'thrower's alley' if you will) puts a stupid grin on my face even when I use a stock 134-lumen XP-E Mag. I looked at the STL-V2/V6--and damn it--it has a larger reflector than the HD2010...decisions, decisions.

Haha...funny you should mention it. I was just shutting off the street light across from my house earlier tonight with my HD2010. :p

we live very near the july 4th fireworks in our little town, and there is a streetlight that NEEDS to be temporarily shut off. i've heard about the lasers, but apparently mine isn't strong enough, because it didn't work. the .22 would have worked, but, uh...haven't gone there yet, probably won't. will the hd2010 really turn it off, and how powerful would the laser have to be?