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 Posted: Tue Jul 11th, 2006 07:27 am
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watchboy



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 Boy now what have you done? I am looking into HELLFIRE now. I did a search a came up with Hellfire X-11. Do you have that and is that the one you mentioed that is the BEST? Or is there another model by Hellfire?

Gee I think I need to get one too! :)

I think they use XENON bulb but not XENON gas. What you see in BMW or Mercedes for e.g., the XENON light actually requires a Blaster to light up the bulb initially(maybe 1-2 seconds) and then it will stablizes the light with a constant voltage.

So the technology used in cars, I believe is not the same as the torchlights. The torchlight simply uses highly power to light up the low watt xenon(?) bulb or maybe just a very white bulb.

As for the Tank Ken mentioned, I am not too sure what technology it used back then.
e.avery wrote: We are just now switching zenon to the 5 watt LED's that produce 100 lum. of light for 1 hour and 1.5 hrs. of useful declining light on 2 lithium batteries.  The Zenon will produce 65 lum. of light for 1 hr..  LED only works on smaller lights.  Larger lights are still zenon and will not change any time soon I think.  The LED military grade bulbs are covered under ITAR so do not get any ideas of shipping them out of the country.  The Hellfire is the mother of all zenon lights only sold to US military.

Last edited on Tue Jul 11th, 2006 07:35 am by watchboy