I was told by the eBay seller that it can be driven at 16kw. How did the hacksmith run his flashlight without overheating it? there was no water cooler or heat exchanger. Why was the hacksmiths light so sloppily made, he has millions of dollars worth of equipment?
I have created this with an arc welder, 1HP agriculture pump, and an angle grinder. One other thing that I want to ask is how to initiate such a long arc lamp. After months of on-off work I have almost finished. It runs off a generator that gets its power from one of those relatively light power washer/go-kart/etc. engines giving it several hours of runtime. I am going to later purchase 3 more xenon lamps to make it more bright. What do people think of this plan? The total weight comes to about 100lbs or so. I am also going to create a reflector and lense for it so it can focus the light properly.
I have already built a 100W cob led light and a 200W-300W RGB led. Itâs not my first time. I have also worked with high voltage equipment in the past
With that size of a EMITTER ( any size of any bulb/led/light bulb/arc lamp), the challenge is not in the DRIVER/engine build, but the process of manufacturing the REFLECTOR which i believe none with that size of lamp;come optimized off the shelf for a âflashlightâ (skytracker/valleyflooder) build.
A big project you have, looking forward for the results.
Stay safe
Cheers
Keep it in this thread so we can follow the updates!
The two schools of thought are whether you edit the first post, or post new reply.
Editing the first post allows a nice continuation of concept> progress > outcome all in one post, however, last I heard, edits donât trigger the forum to mark the thread as updated.
Posting new replies bumps your thread up the list of threads on the homepage, plus notifications for all of us light nerds following along at home.
Welcome! Bold project, canât wait to see some pictures!
Iâd try coiling a length of wire around the tube and driving it with a plasma globe module or similar HF HV source that could excite a glow discharge via capacitive coupling. Only worry would be the wire melting or fusing with the glass envelope.
I have some photos now. I have the fan, structure, and pump. All that is left is the radiator, piping and generator. I have the water cooling jacket but no photo right now. I tried to use a 1/2hp motor to drive the fan but it overheated so I am going to get a larger motor.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ik0FaFR7WGBdo8RuwoKfDDW_PMEAspEa/view?usp=drivesdk
I now have the MacGyver water cooling jacket and some of the plumbing. I will go to Loweâs shortly as I am out of pipe. I scraped the radiator, as I realized I should get a different radiator.
(Darn it why wonât links work, I canât copy-paste them on my phone)
