1kW Xenon short arc

[Tech_Junkie]

Wow. The beam shots are amazing. I wonder if it really looks that blue in real life, or if it's just the camera picking it up as blue.

I doubt it. You can see stars in that picture, so you know its a long exposure.

 

[LaZeRz]

Yeh, you have a point there Mark.

Although, 1kW of light should still be amazing to look at in real life.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

No doubt that its really cool. A little pricey, but still awesome.

 

[BShanahan14rulz]

Well, it would be pretty hard to carry all that weight+bulkiness and you can power it from anything other then mains power... So, a short-arc would be an almost impossible thing to make "portable"... although, as you said, portable can have many meanings/definitions

I was talking about maxabeam and other portable short-arcs. Obviously you aren't going to lug a huge carbon arc lamp around... :na:

 

[Wolfman29]

I'm sure you could power it with enough batteries...! Just get... I dunno, 100 LiFePO4 18650s and stick half of 'em in parallel? XD

 

[LaZeRz]

I'm sure you could power it with enough batteries...! Just get... I dunno, 100 LiFePO4 18650s and stick half of 'em in parallel? XD

lamps like these draw over 50 amps so you still won't get much runtime... Plus, 100 batteries would be impossible to maintain properly and they would weigh alot... lol

 

[Flaminpyro]

With batteries you would be better off with two car batteries than a bunch of Li cells. 24volts might not be enough but my bet is it will work just fine, and you should have a good long run time on top of the mountain

 

[Flaminpyro]

Just think how cool the beam will look coming off the top of a mountain

 

[Wolfman29]

Aliens are takin' ar mountains!

 

[LaZeRz]

Double post, BANNED, say bye to LPF Jeff!!:tsk::tsk::tsk::gun::twak::spank::banned: :banned:

 

[Flaminpyro]

I'm sorry I'll never do it again if you let me stay, please don't ban me, I'll be a good boy...
I'll even let you spank me, yea come on :spank::spank::spank: I love the punishment :thanks:

 

[Tech_Junkie]

please don't ban me,

Wouldn't be the first time. :na:

 

[TexMexExciplex]

I absolutely love those beamshots. Stunning. defocus it a bit, give it a GOBO of the batman symbol with a yellow filter!!! lol. Good stuff man, keep it up.

 

[pullbangdead]

The lab I work in has a 1kW Xe lamp, I use it routinely nowadays. It's inside a safety enclosure, so no beam shots or anything like that. We use it as a light source for photoelectrochemical etching.

It's bright. And pretty darn small, all things considered.

 

[Seoul_lasers]

heat generated by the arc lamp with shatter regular glass once it cools down. All glass used on these systems must be Borosilicate (PYREX) as far as I know.

 

[lpstealth]

heat generated by the arc lamp with shatter regular glass once it cools down. All glass used on these systems must be Borosilicate (PYREX) as far as I know.

If im not mistaken its actually quartz