Don’t let people sell you flashlights unless they’re super cheap and super reliable. :) Especially avoid buying rescue or air defense searchlights - if a product contains the word “rescue” or “defense”, its price will cause a jumpscare. Optics isn’t a secret art, Wikipedia has all the relevant information - and if you happen to have a solar concentrator with a reasonable focal length, you have a searchlight waiting to happen. :)

Photo taken from 968 meters.

P.S. Just remember: LEDs need to be current-limited and cooled. :)

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      2 months ago

      In that short period they function more like an incandescent bulb than a LED tho. Also at that power the correct three letter acronym might be IED instead…