500 watts, 60,000 Lumens
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Crazy bright LED Flood lights
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BajaScout
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Wow!
Wow!
GirlnAgarage
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Cool light, but that guy talks too much. I'd like to see that in an open environment, like a parking lot or field that can be measured vs on his deck in his back yard. It's hard to see the field of view to its limits.
I've been reading more into LED lighting lately, specifically for my bike. Perhaps I'm neanderthal and late to the party but LED lighting is something else.
Cool light, but that guy talks too much. I'd like to see that in an open environment, like a parking lot or field that can be measured vs on his deck in his back yard. It's hard to see the field of view to its limits.
I've been reading more into LED lighting lately, specifically for my bike. Perhaps I'm neanderthal and late to the party but LED lighting is something else.
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Nailed it!
Lighting is easy. Good lighting is hard.
What I mean by that is that it's not difficult to make a fixture that puts out a boat-load of lumens. You can do that in your garage. What is difficult is to make all those lumens go where they are supposed to go, and keep them cooled off enough so that they dont burn up in the process.
It would surprise most people to know that you can do a better job lighting a target with fewer lumens if you use good optics to control the beam of light.
So, there's lots of differences between a fixture like the one in the video and one from a real lighting manufacturer. But the biggest difference is that the pro lighting manufacturer has engineers, scientists, laboratories, and special equipment in an R&D department. The ebay/amazon seller just has a big blob of light.
CD
Nailed it!
Lighting is easy. Good lighting is hard.
What I mean by that is that it's not difficult to make a fixture that puts out a boat-load of lumens. You can do that in your garage. What is difficult is to make all those lumens go where they are supposed to go, and keep them cooled off enough so that they dont burn up in the process.
It would surprise most people to know that you can do a better job lighting a target with fewer lumens if you use good optics to control the beam of light.
So, there's lots of differences between a fixture like the one in the video and one from a real lighting manufacturer. But the biggest difference is that the pro lighting manufacturer has engineers, scientists, laboratories, and special equipment in an R&D department. The ebay/amazon seller just has a big blob of light.
CD
Rewind97
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It's $500!!!!!!
It's $500!!!!!!
ForceFed70
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Most of the tests on the Chinese 500W LED floodlights show 100W of power consumed (or less). At $500 this unit may be better, but looks a lot like the $100 models. It certainly doesn't have adequate cooling for 500W.
Most of the tests on the Chinese 500W LED floodlights show 100W of power consumed (or less). At $500 this unit may be better, but looks a lot like the $100 models. It certainly doesn't have adequate cooling for 500W.
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Thank you for so clearly saying exactly what I was thinking. BS is BS and they will fool lots of people.
Thank you for so clearly saying exactly what I was thinking. BS is BS and they will fool lots of people.
rburke65
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Too much money, too much yapping, and that doesn’t looklike 60,000 lm to me. Just my opinion.....
Too much money, too much yapping, and that doesn’t looklike 60,000 lm to me. Just my opinion.....
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Damn. There sure is a lot of bs in the lighting market. This thread triggered my memory to the old magazine ads for a 1 million candlepower hand held spotlight (12v, I think), so I checked how candlepower compares to lumens. 1 cp=12.57 lm. So a 12,570,000 lm deer spotter. P. T. Barnum would be proud.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lum...droid-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Heck, they're still available:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00069PJ7Y/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Sorry for the hijack. Carry on.
Damn. There sure is a lot of bs in the lighting market. This thread triggered my memory to the old magazine ads for a 1 million candlepower hand held spotlight (12v, I think), so I checked how candlepower compares to lumens. 1 cp=12.57 lm. So a 12,570,000 lm deer spotter. P. T. Barnum would be proud.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lum...droid-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Heck, they're still available:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00069PJ7Y/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Sorry for the hijack. Carry on.
BigWarehouse
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Typical chinese import flood light. Those have been around for quite a while. The numbers they use for watts and lumens are always wrong.
I have four "150 watt" LED flood lights that are about that size, which I wired to standard 3 prong cords. In reality they only use 120 watts, probably close to 100 lumens/watt, so 12k lumens each times 4. They do make a SERIOUS amount of work light, and they run great off a tiny inverter generator all night.
...and I believe they cost around $30 each.
They do get extremely hot, over 170F on the backside of the heat sink, so I would be extremely weary of a 500 watt light in the same form factor. How many hours will that last?
Typical chinese import flood light. Those have been around for quite a while. The numbers they use for watts and lumens are always wrong.
I have four "150 watt" LED flood lights that are about that size, which I wired to standard 3 prong cords. In reality they only use 120 watts, probably close to 100 lumens/watt, so 12k lumens each times 4. They do make a SERIOUS amount of work light, and they run great off a tiny inverter generator all night.
...and I believe they cost around $30 each.
They do get extremely hot, over 170F on the backside of the heat sink, so I would be extremely weary of a 500 watt light in the same form factor. How many hours will that last?
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The typical LED buyer will think that all LED lights last forever and don't use any electricity at all.
Rewind97
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That thing looks pretty generic and poorly assembled for $500. Especially with the "500W" and model number all huge on the lens. And the crooked-*** LED placement, lol.
Could probably get the same light from an generic ebay SUV lightbar.
Could probably get the same light from an generic ebay SUV lightbar.