karlthev
Flashlight Enthusiast
Quote Originally Posted by The_Driver View Post
"There is nothing they can do which would substantially increase performance. I guess they could ar-coate the lens for an extra 5-6% output.
UHP bulbs can't be used in a production light. Also they would have a much slower startup and reduce runtime or brightness (they are less efficient)."
Quote Originally Posted by XeRay
"A more powerful metal halide bulb would be possible, but again less runtime and much slower startup.
He is 100% correct on all points 100 watt is not really possible. the limiting factor is, THERE ARE NO QUALITY BULBS for THIS PARTICULAR HID TECHNOLOGY beyond the "FATBOY" DL50, the max it can or should be considered to be run at is somewhere between 80 and 85 bulb watts, TBD by Xevision which it could or would be (80 or 85) if we were to proceed with the below project.
The only thing left to push this technology to its final edge, and only we (XeVision) can and could do to create the LX70 Superpower "Ultra" ( with a custom new ballast, different bulb and our igniters ) , is push a DL50 "fatboy" bulb to 80 or 85 watts (a 10 bulb watt increase adding maybe 1200 (80w) - 1900 (85w) additional Lumens), we don't see a "real" market for it though.
We don't see a real (100's of units) market for even the standard 50/70 Superpower, so we never sold it.
The "Ultra" Superpower we could call it, might sell 10 to 20 units worldwide for a few hardcore flashaholics, with lots of money to spend. Maybe $3,500 to $4,000 with a prebuy group buy only 1 or 2 runs limited edition.
Not sure at this point if the low end would stay 50W or move up to say 60W."
I recall the original XeVision portable light to end all lights which, via CPF membership request (demand?) graduated to the now famous "Barn Burner" project, the performance of which had not been seen before.The Barn Burner being a modified, low production specialty light, I believe purchased by a rarified group of aficionados right here on the forum!
This thread represents a "testing of the waters" so to speak to determine if the desire..."need" for such a project exists. Does it?
Let's hear from all you CPFers who may want to take the next quantum step and have the needed hardware designed, produced and bring this project to completion!
Karl
"There is nothing they can do which would substantially increase performance. I guess they could ar-coate the lens for an extra 5-6% output.
UHP bulbs can't be used in a production light. Also they would have a much slower startup and reduce runtime or brightness (they are less efficient)."
Quote Originally Posted by XeRay
"A more powerful metal halide bulb would be possible, but again less runtime and much slower startup.
He is 100% correct on all points 100 watt is not really possible. the limiting factor is, THERE ARE NO QUALITY BULBS for THIS PARTICULAR HID TECHNOLOGY beyond the "FATBOY" DL50, the max it can or should be considered to be run at is somewhere between 80 and 85 bulb watts, TBD by Xevision which it could or would be (80 or 85) if we were to proceed with the below project.
The only thing left to push this technology to its final edge, and only we (XeVision) can and could do to create the LX70 Superpower "Ultra" ( with a custom new ballast, different bulb and our igniters ) , is push a DL50 "fatboy" bulb to 80 or 85 watts (a 10 bulb watt increase adding maybe 1200 (80w) - 1900 (85w) additional Lumens), we don't see a "real" market for it though.
We don't see a real (100's of units) market for even the standard 50/70 Superpower, so we never sold it.
The "Ultra" Superpower we could call it, might sell 10 to 20 units worldwide for a few hardcore flashaholics, with lots of money to spend. Maybe $3,500 to $4,000 with a prebuy group buy only 1 or 2 runs limited edition.
Not sure at this point if the low end would stay 50W or move up to say 60W."
I recall the original XeVision portable light to end all lights which, via CPF membership request (demand?) graduated to the now famous "Barn Burner" project, the performance of which had not been seen before.The Barn Burner being a modified, low production specialty light, I believe purchased by a rarified group of aficionados right here on the forum!
This thread represents a "testing of the waters" so to speak to determine if the desire..."need" for such a project exists. Does it?
Let's hear from all you CPFers who may want to take the next quantum step and have the needed hardware designed, produced and bring this project to completion!
Karl
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