Garrett and Farrell's worst nightmare!

[lost_soul]

This guy made a flashlight with

. The thing is so big it has to be held like a grenade launcher. I particularly like the switch design on the back and the overall creativity! The thing draws 50 watts at full power and the battery only lasts 10 minutes on the highest setting. It uses a lead-acid battery.

 

I wonder how he deals with the heat? Individual LEDs hardly generate any heat, but when we're talking 500 of them in a close proximity, I would imagine that would change things. Also, I'm guessing he wired the LEDs in series clusters of 4 to make them run off 12 volts because one LED usually uses 3 volts.

 

3+3+3+3=12 (cluster a)

3+3+3+3=12 (cluster B )

and so on

... and then just wire the clusters in parallel.

 

It may not be that practical, but it looks cool. Maybe the TDM guards should be equipped with these!

Edited July 20, 2011 by lost_soul

[Sotha]

Hm... I hope that guy is not gonna attach lasers like that next time.

 

There has recently been numerous incidents where idiots cause dangerous situations by blinding plane and helicopter pilots with self-made laser-equipment.

 

I wonder what's the motivation behind such foolishness.

[nbohr1more]

"Some men just like to watch the world burn..." The Dark Knight 2008 ©

 

 

LED light is strange for flashlight, it often has very limited spectrum which means that some things are significantly illuminated while other things "not so much" This would likely be much more effective (and smaller) if the creator had mixed in a variety of colors (spectrum ranges). Though, in it's current incarnation, it's very dramatic from an iconography angle (eg) "BIG BUNDLE 'O LIGHTS YEAH!".

Edited July 21, 2011 by nbohr1more

[jaxa]

I've definitely seen brighter than that. One of the YT comments speculates that it's the old kind of LED too as opposed to newer, brighter, cheaper?, less power consuming ones.

 

Although Garrett and Farrell have a lot to worry about. Motion sensors, IR, lasers, facial recognition, polymerase chain reaction, etc.

[Tels]

I've definitely seen brighter than that. One of the YT comments speculates that it's the old kind of LED too as opposed to newer, brighter, cheaper?, less power consuming ones.

 

Maybe because the video is from 2008....

 

News, for some definition of "new"

[Diego]

Garrett and Farrell's worst nightmare!

 

You're looking at it the wrong way.. It's a handheld flashbomb! I can see a thief carrying this thing on the shoulder and blasting every guard's eyes in the way

[Bikerdude]

You're looking at it the wrong way.. It's a handheld flashbomb! I can see a thief carrying this thing on the shoulder and blasting every guard's eyes in the way

[stumpy]

you could probably build a flashlight version of an arc light, that would be bright.