$2000 for a spotlight?!

[Shockwave]

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Damn thing better navigate for me too!

 

[Dissipate]

A high intensity Xenon searchlight originally designed for military search and rescue missions: The MaxaBeam? uses a unique short-arc Xenon lamp which creates a six million candlepower beam of white light. The 3.2 pound (156 gram) unit provides sufficient light to read a newspaper from a distance of one and a half miles. (2.4 kilometers)

6 million candle power, uh there is your answer as to why it is so expensive. Doesn't seem like a ripoff to me, that is one hell of a searchlight.

 

[Mill]

:brokenheart:

 

[KK]

Why would you want to put a spotlight 1 1/2 miles away to read a newpaper?

KK

 

[cressida]

ah this would work well for my Batman signal. 😀

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: Dissipate

A high intensity Xenon searchlight originally designed for military search and rescue missions: The MaxaBeam? uses a unique short-arc Xenon lamp which creates a six million candlepower beam of white light. The 3.2 pound (156 gram) unit provides sufficient light to read a newspaper from a distance of one and a half miles. (2.4 kilometers)

6 million candle power, uh there is your answer as to why it is so expensive. Doesn't seem like a ripoff to me, that is one hell of a searchlight.

Dude, I can get a million CP for 35 bucks

Now, scaled proportionately... 1x6 = 6 million CP, 35x6 = Well, I dunno right off but its a HELLUVA lot less then 2000!

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Dissipate

A high intensity Xenon searchlight originally designed for military search and rescue missions: The MaxaBeam? uses a unique short-arc Xenon lamp which creates a six million candlepower beam of white light. The 3.2 pound (156 gram) unit provides sufficient light to read a newspaper from a distance of one and a half miles. (2.4 kilometers)

6 million candle power, uh there is your answer as to why it is so expensive. Doesn't seem like a ripoff to me, that is one hell of a searchlight.

Dude, I can get a million CP for 35 bucks

Now, scaled proportionately... 1x6 = 6 million CP, 35x6 = Well, I dunno right off but its a HELLUVA lot less then 2000!

The review from your own link:

Just not a great spotlight. Uses a simple 55watt bulb, and 6 volt battery, which compared to other lights, is just not that bright.

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

holy crap. i want one.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Dissipate

A high intensity Xenon searchlight originally designed for military search and rescue missions: The MaxaBeam? uses a unique short-arc Xenon lamp which creates a six million candlepower beam of white light. The 3.2 pound (156 gram) unit provides sufficient light to read a newspaper from a distance of one and a half miles. (2.4 kilometers)

6 million candle power, uh there is your answer as to why it is so expensive. Doesn't seem like a ripoff to me, that is one hell of a searchlight.

Dude, I can get a million CP for 35 bucks

Now, scaled proportionately... 1x6 = 6 million CP, 35x6 = Well, I dunno right off but its a HELLUVA lot less then 2000!

Its designed for search and rescue, it is six times brighter than the $35 searchlight. A lot of things in the economy are not proportionally priced in relation to their efficiency/output. The reason why is that for a lot of things in order to get that extra "oomph" requires a lot more expensive technology. Take clean rooms for example. If you had an empty room with no windows and all the surfaces were smoothe and hard you could make it pretty damn clean, spotless looking to the naked eye. But to make it 100% clean is going to cost you big time. Thus, the square footage cost on a clean room is way more than that room you have that is only marginally less clean.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Dissipate

A high intensity Xenon searchlight originally designed for military search and rescue missions: The MaxaBeam? uses a unique short-arc Xenon lamp which creates a six million candlepower beam of white light. The 3.2 pound (156 gram) unit provides sufficient light to read a newspaper from a distance of one and a half miles. (2.4 kilometers)

6 million candle power, uh there is your answer as to why it is so expensive. Doesn't seem like a ripoff to me, that is one hell of a searchlight.

Dude, I can get a million CP for 35 bucks

Now, scaled proportionately... 1x6 = 6 million CP, 35x6 = Well, I dunno right off but its a HELLUVA lot less then 2000!

Its designed for search and rescue, it is six times brighter than the $35 searchlight. A lot of things in the economy are not proportionally priced in relation to their efficiency/output. The reason why is that for a lot of things in order to get that extra "oomph" requires a lot more expensive technology. Take clean rooms for example. If you had an empty room with no windows and all the surfaces were smoothe and hard you could make it pretty damn clean, spotless looking to the naked eye. But to make it 100% clean is going to cost you big time. Thus, the square footage cost on a clean room is way more than that room you have that is only marginally less clean.

Oh, I know why its more expensive. Also, its the best of the best. But still.... 2000 is alot of damned money for something that by any other name is a flashlight!