Mad_mat222
Newly Enlightened
Hi all,
Firstly I apologise for my lack of knowledge and the forum tag of "unenlightened" is well deserved, but I'm willing to learn.
Project: create a powerful light to mount on a drone. Aka drone night sun.
Considerations: weight is a major factor. The project needs to weigh as little as possible, will need a run time of about 30mins, the simpler the better because I'm way out of my league if I need to start calculating and designing complicated circuits.
Idea thus far: I have been trawling through the mountain of info on here(bit overwhelming for a newb)
From my reading I think the XHP70.2 might be the go. I'm not sure if bigger is better but it seems really efficient which means more power for less. I came across Vestureofblood's write up "The XHP70.2 8,000 Lumen BLF-GT." That is some serious light. For my needs I would prefer a flood type setup that when deployed 20-50m above ground, would produce an area of concentrated light approx 20m (I just pulled that out!) in diameter. Bright enough to have people reaching for their sunnies and not to much spilling out past that.
The light will run off independent power. At this stage the only function I need is on/off. Might need adjustable down the line. I'm thinking it will be switched on/off remotely off the drone circuit.
Any assistance would be much appreciated. There is some much knowledge here it's hard to find exactly what you need. The other issue is that all the lights I've seen have no weight restrictions.
cheers
Mat
Firstly I apologise for my lack of knowledge and the forum tag of "unenlightened" is well deserved, but I'm willing to learn.
Project: create a powerful light to mount on a drone. Aka drone night sun.
Considerations: weight is a major factor. The project needs to weigh as little as possible, will need a run time of about 30mins, the simpler the better because I'm way out of my league if I need to start calculating and designing complicated circuits.
Idea thus far: I have been trawling through the mountain of info on here(bit overwhelming for a newb)
From my reading I think the XHP70.2 might be the go. I'm not sure if bigger is better but it seems really efficient which means more power for less. I came across Vestureofblood's write up "The XHP70.2 8,000 Lumen BLF-GT." That is some serious light. For my needs I would prefer a flood type setup that when deployed 20-50m above ground, would produce an area of concentrated light approx 20m (I just pulled that out!) in diameter. Bright enough to have people reaching for their sunnies and not to much spilling out past that.
The light will run off independent power. At this stage the only function I need is on/off. Might need adjustable down the line. I'm thinking it will be switched on/off remotely off the drone circuit.
Any assistance would be much appreciated. There is some much knowledge here it's hard to find exactly what you need. The other issue is that all the lights I've seen have no weight restrictions.
cheers
Mat
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