Truck has 480,000 lumen light panel installed on it

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/31/truck-has-480000-lumen-light.html

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Looks like those are high Kelvin “daylight” LED’s as well, ooph :frowning_face:

It’s probably fairly futile to flash your high beams at this guy when your coming the other way down the road.

Though I find myself doing that a lot anyways these days with so many nasty high K headlights in a lot of cars and SUV’s.

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Why?

(Aside from the usual “because it’s there” excess some people can’t seem to resist?)\

I can’t help but think that this guy’s truck would be incredibly annoying and disruptive for people and wildlife.

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I’d qualify it as light pollution.

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His day job must be bicycle headlight designer.

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Christ, what an asshole.

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He may have a very good reason to have such very bright lights.

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Almost ten times the lumens as a Nightsun, apparently. But only half as many as an IMAX projector array.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/

You may not recognize the name, but chances are you’ve seen one in operation: It’s the searchlight mounted on police and Coast Guard helicopters. With an output on the order of 50,000 lumens, it’s capable of turning a patch ground from night to day.

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Cool project. One on a baloon could singlehandedly light up a night event without requiring lighting infrastructure.

What makes you say that?

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Coming to a Texas highway near you…

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I’d qualify it as a deadly hazard to oncoming drivers any vehicle in front of him.

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Portable tanning bed?

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I’d qualify it as Moth Central

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5 KW penis-extender vs a 3W laser pointer. Come at me bro! /s

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Oncoming traffic

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Drive this to your local astronomy meetup.
See what happens.

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5kw?!? To put that in perspective, that’s about 7 horse power. That’s equivalent to 14 lawn mowers. That’s enough power for 3 or 4 American single family houses. Seriously I can keep doing this all day. That’s freaking nuts.

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That article did not go where I thought it was going to go. Thanks for that. :joy:

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So what you’re really saying here is that I could power my house with a couple of lawnmowers?

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I think it’s closer to a violation of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons:

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