we witness a lot of audacious
awe-inspiring record attempts here at
guinness world records
and here's another from the team at
hacksmith industries
after building the world's first proto
lightsaber
hacksmith next set their sights on
another guinness world record title
by building the world's brightest
outsized
flashlight they started with the
brightest flashlight
you can buy and i've decided to multiply
that
by over 15 times let's see
just how they did it just for reference
this is the current amount of leds in
the world's most powerful flashlight
and this is the number of leds in our
flashlight
we have 300 leds they are split between
50 boards
those 50 boards go to 50 constant
current drivers
those 50 drivers they are all powered by
one battery makes sense good
we're gonna take this and make it into
that
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now that the heatsink is done i guess i
should put all these led pcvs together
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eh
awesome these look good i just have to
do this
49 more times
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[Applause]
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we've got all 50 let's put them on the
heatsink
i just have to do this 49 more times
a giant flashlight needs a giant switch
let's go ahead and turn it on
you know what goes great with a giant
switch a giant button
our flashlight is going to have three
different modes
low high and turbo and that's all going
to be controlled by this little button
right here all those buttons all those
switches
all those screens all those led drivers
come into this this led monstrosity
i guess all systems are go let's test it
out
it's going to take a while
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oh better hot
so uh that actually worked really well
but as you can see light just kind of
went everywhere
and traditionally speaking flashlights
have a much more focused beam
so let's see what we can do about that
you might have seen grammar or grandpa
using one of these things
it's called the fresnel reading
magnifier it allows you to focus on a
certain area of text
kind of like a magnifying glass if we
take a light source and apply it to the
other side of the lens we can actually
focus light
into a point well the bag's on fire
man that is some black smoke oh the golf
ball's on fire
golf balls really on fire
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that's actually uh we can start off by
actually getting a smaller lens
and putting them on each of these
individual leds
to ensure the light is as collimated as
possible
going into the bigger lens over there
but what about this gap in between
i'm going to need a way to actually keep
the light in a tunnel
so i've gone ahead and sourced a fancy
reflector
also known as a common trashcan to go in
between
let's just get rid of this though we're
gonna saw the bottom off
and coat the entire inside with this
reflective material to make sure it
doesn't catch fire
what about all these electronics where
are they gonna go and how are we gonna
hold it well
i've gone ahead and sourced something
that i think we can fit everything into
so now all that's left is to put it
together and give it a coat of paint
the giant led array has been mounted
to this concrete footing i've taken all
the wires
and pulled them through so you can see
them right here a little bit of a mass
but
but piece by piece it's coming together
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this is like the last five percent so
let's say 95
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done
it's it's gonna work
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look at that it's a flashlight it's
gotta be clean you know
also this was the garbage can so there's
that
oh vhb i'm gonna use it all done tell
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dave
i'm the beast
all right this flashlight looks
incredible chris did a fantastic job
but how does it stack up to the
competition let's find out
lights so over here we got your standard
rinky dink over the counter flashlight
let's see how it does
not not great all right let's try the
imalent ms-18 this is the world's
brightest
production flashlight available
whew pretty bright that's it's pretty
bright
not ergo's a fan i think we can do
better though
three two one
you can't see the sign leds anymore oh
god lights
all right so that certainly looks
impressive but maybe we could measure
the light output in a more scientific
way
this is called a crooks radiometer and
actually measures
light radiation let's see what happens
when we put this in front of each
flashlight
all right starting with the rinky-dink
flashlight let's see what happens
no it's it's moving oh yeah it is one
rotation every hour
not that slow let's try bringing it a
little bit closer
there we go solar power right there
slowly spinning
all right let's see what the ambulant 18
can do
all right world surprise flashlight
let's see what happens whoo
oh oh spinning oh
man it's been real fast
let's try our flashlight you can't see
anything
all right we've only got seven seconds
before this baby overheats let's do it
one two three four
five six seven
look how fast
how did light fold something what have
we done
what have we created look at that
all right that was pretty impressive but
we need to give this bad boy some room
to breathe you know how big a football
field is
right let's start with the rinky dink
flashlight
yeah very good is it on yeah
it is i can barely see it okay
all right let's try the inland ms-18 the
world's brightest flashlight
that's pretty bright but let's see how
ours does
that's so bright jeez
remember grandma and grandpa's reading
lens from before well here it is now
let's see what happens
oh god
so what do you think high beams
so there you go at 500 and 1331
lumens hacksmith industries smashed the
world record
for the brightest outsized flashlight
what records would you like the team to
turn their spotlight
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