Yeah that’s the Maxtoch.
I would love to have a small flashlight that can throw that far
Was planning to buy an acebeam W10 but it’s a bit too expensive and also the technology is very new so I’m going to wait a bit.
Building something small can sometimes be more difficult than building something large, especially since i don’t have a CNC.
For now, yeah, my flashlights are way too expensive and limited.
But in the future who knows, if I somehow got a CNC or something I’m sure I could make “normal” LED flashlights for an affordable price.
Interesting. Maybe enclosing the passive side of the reflector with a layer of some sort of hardening plaster could help. The idea here is to create a supporting structure to prevent any deformation, of course.
I rememeber mentioning this somewhere, maybe here, but when we’d do car speaker-boxes, one way to make them super-rigid would be to layer the outside with “gorilla-hair” and liquid resin. Resin sops into the GH and hardens into, essentially, fiberglass.
Maybe coat the dud side with resin, get the GH to stick (wood-staples would probably be a Bad Idea), then soak the GH with more resin. Add more layers if you want.
Yeah that could possibly help, but it would need to be some special material that doesn’t thermally expand or contract much or it would deform the electroformed parabola when the temperature changes, since the material would not be the same as the metal.
No 20kw light bulb, I want something portable
Well it’s either LED or laser phosphor, and laser phosphor will not be cheap any time soon.
Just the laser diode alone is $200.
Something using a CSLNM1.TG or boost HX would get good throw in a compact light.
I am in receipt of this magnificent light and I have to say that it is truly a fantastic performer. I just got thru quickly playing for about 5 minutes. I shined it up to a white rocky cutaway in my local hills which is roughly a bit over 1 mile distant and was really surprised and amazed how bright the target was lit up and how much overall light was hitting the rocks. A Biggg WOW! In the future, I create a thread similar to the one done with my German Leopard 1, 450 Watt Short Arc tank light at the same target so a good relative comparison can be seen.
This wasn’t 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 couldn’t be! Is that a 60” 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 couldn’t get in to get up close but it looked to be at least a 14” 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 don’t judge performance of either light on that. Concentrate on the lower parts. The SB beam looks almost parallel while the tracker beam looks “V” shaped. I walked about 200’ distant and the Syniosbeam was every bit high reaching as the tracker. This is one stunning performer!
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. It’s LED retro-fires into an 11” 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 it’s because not as much concentrated light is hitting the target. I’m 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. It’s THAT good!
Syniosbeam Zoomed but not as close as the tank light below. Also, it’s but too bright - For target identification only
This is a Pelican 1550.
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