Watch the world's brightest flashlight burn stuff

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/30/watch-the-worlds-brightest-f.html

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https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/

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You also have to know that LEDs aren’t very hot.

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Is that page supposed to be a joke? My BS alarm is going off on half the paragraphs.

Also, this:

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Their backend power supplies can get pretty crazy hot, but yeah.

The (very awesome) LED floodlight I use with my tractor will not heat your hand with its light anywhere near as much as an incandescent with the same lumen output would.

My bicycle headlights keep killing themselves from the heat. I need to build a better heat sink.

(also: flashlight lasers: never point them at an object of the same color or at a mirror.)

((are we going to get shadow square wire next?))

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