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NASA Searchlights understands that to maintain its role as a leader and educator in the searchlight rental and manufacturing industry, a solid commitment to create a website that is not just informative, but necessary to help prevent the customer from being misled by inexperienced searchlight companies as well as importers of foreign made searchlights. Especially those companies who have little or no incentive to provide a quality and safe searchlight product, but rather, to sell as many as possible before their reputation catches up with them.
A) SAFETY
Never buy or rent a searchlight product that uses Xenon lamps
Per Wikipedia "In order to achieve maximum efficiency, the xenon gas inside short-arc lamps are maintained at an extremely high pressure, which poses large safety concerns. If a lamp is dropped, or ruptures while in service, pieces of the lamp envelope are prone to be ejected at high velocity, causing large amounts of damage and harm.
Xenon lamps are under atmospheric pressure even when new, cold, and still in the original shipping container. They are even mildly Radioactive as well. Handling Xenon lamps requires vital safety precautions. Employees must wear protective ballistic gear when handling or replacing lamps in Xenon fixtures to prevent serious bodily injury or even death.
These precautions are not necessary when handling the 21st century technologies used in our searchlight products. Lamps used by NASA searchlights are not under atmospheric pressure and changing them does not present an explosion hazard as explained above.
You can see the ever-present danger of Xenon lamps in this video:
The people handling this lamp were in the process of removing the used lamp from its packing material for a foolish "experiment".
...They wanted to throw rocks at the lamp from a distance and catch it exploding on video.
As you can see, they didn't need to throw rocks; the lamp exploded merely from being handled.
View our video showing that we have eliminated the concerns as shown in the above Xenon lamp explosion.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) safety manual states that Xenon lamps must be stored in a separate room that may not be entered unless two employees dressed in appropriate ballistic safety gear do so at the same time. The second employee is required as a safety backup to help the person physically handling the lamp in case of an explosion.
B) BEWARE
Beware of searchlights that are imported from a foreign country such as China or India. Also beware of unscrupulous companies that represent themselves as a US manufacturer when in fact they are only importing a Chinese/India product. In some cases they are importing the parts from China and/or India and then identify their searchlight product as made in the USA.
C) DONT FALL FOR THIS OLD TRICK
WATTS DO NOT TRANSLATE TO BRIGHTNESS
Watts do not translate to brightness! Watts are only a measurement of the electrical power required to operate a particular lamp. The photo below shows a side-by-side comparison of our energy-efficient 850-watt model HD-1 searchlight (on the right, standard model, not zArc) and an old 4000-watt Xenon searchlight (on the left).
Because we know that a 100-watt incandescent bulb is very bright and a 40-watt incandescent bulb is dimmer, people tend to associate watts with brightness of light. However different bulb technologies produce differing amounts of light per watt.
Wattage in a searchlight lamp only describes how much electrical power that searchlight lamp uses;
not how bright it is.
Factual example of candlepower as stated by our competitors:
(a world famous popular searchlight)
2000-watt lamp only equals 208 million candlepower
4000-watt lamp only equals 332 million candlepower
7000-watt Xenon lamp equals 600 million candlepower
NASA stated candlepower is 1.7 Billion in our standard HD-1 Searchlight. This extremely high candlepower rating is obtained by our searchlight manufacturing facility by using the newest and most advanced technologies available.
No other searchlight manufacturer has a searchlight product that can state this record candlepower using the same measurement techniques.*
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE BUYING OR RENTING A SEARCHLIGHT
