That thing is just crazy. YOUR’E crazy, OL. 
Looks pretty bad to me.
And you guys know that I mean when I say bad. Bad as in bad to the bone.
I’m impressed on such a fast 1 sec shutter.
See if you can up the shutter to 1.5” which is 1.4 sec shutter at least on my camera. That will probably be more what you really will see in real life which will only be brighter yet.
Great job on all the photos.
Ya, it's bad. I have never owned or made a light that would reach over a mile. The most impressive thing to me is the fact that I was in the city of Tyler, on a Saturday night.
It was cloudy and very damp. I think that's why you see all that haze in the shot at over a mile. Also, these buildings are already lit up. There's building lights, parking area lights and street lights in this area, so it's not dark.
I would love to see this thing somewhere out in the open on a clear night with low humidity and some open targets. I bet it would reach out much farther.
I like the paracord wrap .
Everytime I see this post I am amazed. This light will probably sell quickly. :D
I know a place for you . . just PM.
Yippee ki-yay!! That is totally amazing! I totally understand why you'd love to see this bad boy stretch it's legs out in the open country on a moonless night with low humidity and no wind. You'd hit 2 miles is my guess.
That last pic with the tower is mind blowing bright. I loooove it! Now we just have to get you a 10" aspheric lens, one of those 15000 lumens bridgelux arrays Texaspyro talks about, the fan from one of those swamp boats and a 3 kW generator set and about 5 pounds of aluminium heat sink. Then let you have at it!
Seriously though that is a awesome build you've completed. Thank you for sharing this. It is really food for thought!
Impresive Old-Lumens. Do you need bail money sent.
Freakin awesome.. OL you rock.. srsly.
Nope, but I waited till I saw no helicopters in sight, before I lit up that thing. Don't want some officer with a real serious spotlight lighting up my world.
I forgot to ask.. could you show an example of a station like that? Sounds great, compared to my.. no nice words to describe it. :D
http://www.amazon.com/Weller-WXMP-Micro-Soldering-Iron-Watt/dp/B005RYI934
Or this
http://www.amazon.com/Weller-WX2021-WDH50-Solder-Station/dp/B005N70ZSM
Old-Lumens have you measured the lux number of this light yet? I am really curious!
I even doubt that if my Sanmak SM5200 can reach over one mile… your light is genuinely insane!
I love this shot . . .
A purty chunk-o-glass for sure but of course, the engineering staff at Foybezels is most impressed with that absolutely gorgeous doll of a bezel.
Somebody is going to own one hell of a flashlight. I predict it sells within two hours of being offered, depending on time of day, of course.
wowFoy
It was around 3000 lumens… with one of the driver boards disconnected and only getting 6 amps. When it gets back, I’ll put it through its paces.
3000 lumens from a single LED?! 
texaspyro you are the new owner of this light? :bigsmile:
An SST 90 aspheric build at 6 amps giving out 3k lumens…
That is a bit… Hard to believe.
I would have to agree.
The N bin I used will do 850-1,000lm at 3.15A. I don't know what it would do at 6A, but now it should be back to it's max, with the solder joint fixed. Possibly it would be hard to read lux due to the light being concentrated thru the aspheric lens? I don't know.
Yes, it’s mine! Muahahahahahaha J)
I did the measurement with the head off in my integrating box… I don’t have the sphere set up yet. It does tend to over-estimate lumens at high levels. I suspect it is actually something somewhat over 2000 lumens.
Hmm… I don’t know about the 3000 lumens things, really, but I am not gonna deny it though since I do not have proof.
First of all, I do not deny that this thing is BRIGHT and has Serious Throw, but still have some doubts. As claimed by Old Lumens, this thing can throw up to about 1.376 miles, which can be rounded as about 2.2km, or 2200 meters.
Assume that we define the throw distance by ANSI standard, to only 0.25 lux.
Then the lux at 1m should be (2200/2)^2 = 1,210,000 lux @1m! In other word, 1.21 million candlepower!
As far as I know the legendary DEFT created by saabluster (Michael) has “only” 700k cp. And this is done with overdriven XR-E with 101mm aspherical lens.
No offense anyway… but just, curious…