Turn on all your flashlights?

[Hank33]

Has anyone ever tried turning on all their flashlights all together outside? OMG! there would soooo much light power!

[jeff51]

Matt over at adventure sports did a video a while back where he clamped like 5 of the top brightest lights together and went running around with them.
Found it:

Brightest Flashlights of 2017! (Top 5 best).

All the best,
Jeff

[fluke]

Nowhere near enough cells.

[MascaratumB]

50 Flashlights on At Once 110,000 lumens

Scannerguy (he is also a member here, but I can’t remember the username) did something alike

[richbuff]

I recently turned on most of my heavy hitters all at once indoors, the effect was stellar.

Currently, 23 lights add up to 270, 765 lumens, 11,772 average. There is an Imalent MS18 and a R90TS in the mix. Five more single cell 21700 lights are on order, they will add up to an additional 44,000 lumens.

[SK1LL]

I enjoy little moonlight parties where any light capable of a moonlight mode gets turned on n set up somewhere. pretty fun lighting a room with just moonlights everywhere

[Kindle]

@SK1LL

I enjoy little moonlight parties where any light capable of a moonlight mode gets turned on n set up somewhere. pretty fun lighting a room with just moonlights everywhere :sunglasses:

That’s a cool idea.

[Petr_Sixta]

I don’t have enough batteries to turn on all my lamps.

Before I start everything, most lamps that have already been switched on would reduce power through thermal protection.

If someone has more pieces in their collection, it’s almost impossible to turn everything on at full power.

[spudley112]

I remember reading a funny article years ago that a guy wrote for pure humor. He was upset at a play a ref had called at a football game, and did the calculations necessary to determine if a stadium full of people, each armed with a 3” by 3” mirror, could focus the light from the sun and ignite a referee. I cannot remember what the conclusion was (as ghastly as the concept was, the math he did was interesting) but it was a funny article. I wish I could locate the original article.

I wonder what a stadium full of flashaholics, all aiming two of their favorite throwers onto one point, could do? Heck…might not be enough to warm a biscuit.

[Hugh_Johnson]

@MascaratumB

https://youtu.be/2eiUANLYSss
Scannerguy (he is also a member here, but I can’t remember the username) did something alike

Robo819. I was going to post the same thing.

[MascaratumB]

@Hugh Johnson

@MascaratumB

https://youtu.be/2eiUANLYSss
Scannerguy (he is also a member here, but I can’t remember the username) did something alike

Robo819. I was going to post the same thing.

I may have understood it wrongly, but Robo819 is David Moore on YT

Actually the username is…scannerguy1968 ! I thought it was another one :person_facepalming:

[hank]

What Petr said …

[DBSAR]

Yep, did that in a beam shot test i turned on all my most powerful lights i have in 2018 in a dark hydro dam valley during a beam shot test. ( topic is here: > Beamshot SHOOT OUT 2018! - My best throwers & flooders

[Phlogiston]

@spudley112

I remember reading a funny article years ago that a guy wrote for pure humor. He was upset at a play a ref had called at a football game, and did the calculations necessary to determine if a stadium full of people, each armed with a 3” by 3” mirror, could focus the light from the sun and ignite a referee. I cannot remember what the conclusion was (as ghastly as the concept was, the math he did was interesting) but it was a funny article. I wish I could locate the original article.

I wonder what a stadium full of flashaholics, all aiming two of their favorite throwers onto one point, could do? Heck…might not be enough to warm a biscuit.

You might enjoy Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Stroke of The Sun”:

https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_Magazine_Volume_16_Number_5\_/page/n72/mode/1up

[spudley112]

@Phlogiston

@spudley112

I remember reading a funny article years ago that a guy wrote for pure humor. He was upset at a play a ref had called at a football game, and did the calculations necessary to determine if a stadium full of people, each armed with a 3” by 3” mirror, could focus the light from the sun and ignite a referee. I cannot remember what the conclusion was (as ghastly as the concept was, the math he did was interesting) but it was a funny article. I wish I could locate the original article.

I wonder what a stadium full of flashaholics, all aiming two of their favorite throwers onto one point, could do? Heck…might not be enough to warm a biscuit.

You might enjoy Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Stroke of The Sun”:

https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_Magazine_Volume_16_Number_5\_/page/n72/mode/1up

HAHAHA! That HAD to be the basis (read - ripped off from) for the article then! The article writer was a bit plagiaristic if you ask me…but thank you for locating that. I need to find the material with all the calculations.