• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    The bulb (with aluminium heatsink) is 11×40×23 cm overall and 200W (1165cd/cm²), with monitoring and sync options.

    Bcs it’s a neat design:

    But perhaps to note - bulbs like that are only if you want to keep those giant rotating fresnel lenses (and even with that those LEDs on that bulb still need a lens on their own).

    The simpler solution is to use one of the new designs, without the old lenses or even without the whole old lighthouse structure, eg:

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    11 days ago

    The specs say it replaces a traditional 500w-1500w light source with a 200w LED fixture. I’m honestly surprised at how low that is overall. I would expect that a lighthouse would be using at least 10kw of power or more, especially in areas prone to fog. I can only assume that there are lenses to focus it down to a tight beam.

    For comparison, I recently installed LED lights in a moderately-sized industrial area. Total power consumption is a little over 2kw, or 10 lighthouses.

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      11 days ago

      I had a 100W LED that would put your eye out. Even with a fat heat sink and fan it partially burned itself. Kinda scary to deal with.

      I’m guessing each LED is 200W?

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      10 days ago

      That’s the difference between making a light that can be seen over a large area vs lights to brightly illuminate a large area. Lighthouses only need to be seen not illuminate the sea.

      But yeah, I would have guessed it to be higher as well.