Lighting for Night Work- What's Good?

Vince Wood said:
I use a miner's light strapped to my forehead. You can get them at Sport Chalet and they seem to work pretty good.
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We do the same, we also bought rechargeable batteries and a charger so we always have fresh batteries at each job
 
I am working with a new technology company that makes a new led light equivalent to a 500 watt halogen light that will run off a small motorcycle battery for 36 hrs straight without a recharge.

I am working on getting it released for mobile contractors.

Imagine working all night with 270 degree lighting of 250-500 watts on your surface cleaner on a rechargeable 9v battery.

Or 5000 watts of lighting on your truck running off your skid battery.

It is right around the corner.

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Sounds great Tony!
 
I have rigged up lights on the surface cleaners in the past but not bright enough, usually have tried those high lumens led lights with clamps but need something brighter to light up bigger areas in front and behind the surface cleaner so I can look down and make sure I am not walking too fast.
 
I have a pair of halogen work lights I set up. I also attached a small batterie powered light to my surface cleaner, just enough light to insure my tracks are even.

The sprayer bar spining at a high rate of speed generates energy. How to capture that energy and power a light built in to a surface cleaner- might be worth discussion.
 
That is an interesting idea but if you put any additional resistance onto the spray bar, it will slow down, maybe even stop and you will slow down to a crawl when trying to walk while cleaning.

The pressurized water coming out of the angled spray nozzles propels the spray bar to spin and when the water hits the surface it removes the contaminants.
 
Christopher said:
That is an interesting idea but if you put any additional resistance onto the spray bar, it will slow down, maybe even stop and you will slow down to a crawl when trying to walk while cleaning.

The pressurized water coming out of the angled spray nozzles propels the spray bar to spin and when the water hits the surface it removes the contaminants.
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Chris, you're spot on. Remember bicycle generators that spin by rubbing on the wheel/tire? Lots of resistance.
 
Vince Wood said:
A helper holding 2 big flood lights hooked up to the generator following you around also works well.
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Interestingly that is how the federal government workers do it. With the addition of two supervisors, a union rep and a safety consultant.

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You forgot the guy that fills out the paperwork and the one that reminds everyone when it is time to go on break.
 
Scott Stone said:
You forgot the guy that fills out the paperwork and the one that reminds everyone when it is time to go on break.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that has noticed that with Caltrans here. Some of the power washing contractors here have 3 guys to 1 truck with only 1 machine. I'm guessing one is the security guard, one is the mechanic and the other the actual worker.
 
Vince Wood said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one that has noticed that with Caltrans here. Some of the power washing contractors here have 3 guys to 1 truck with only 1 machine. I'm guessing one is the security guard, one is the mechanic and the other the actual worker.
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I never understood why people do that. Pay a guy to watch another guy work.
If you have 3 guys and 3 machines that can run on one truck then everyone has a fair workload. Now that's a productive setup.
 
Tony Shelton said:
I am working with a new technology company that makes a new led light equivalent to a 500 watt halogen light that will run off a small motorcycle battery for 36 hrs straight without a recharge.

I am working on getting it released for mobile contractors.

Imagine working all night with 270 degree lighting of 250-500 watts on your surface cleaner on a rechargeable 9v battery.

Or 5000 watts of lighting on your truck running off your skid battery.

It is right around the corner.

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Amazing. I can't wait.
 
Rapid HotClean said:
Chris, you're spot on. Remember bicycle generators that spin by rubbing on the wheel/tire? Lots of resistance.
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Ted that's pretty old technology. The old type did have a lot of resistance. The newer one's not so much. That gives me an idea! Do you know how a Hydro Electric Power Plant works? I think I'll build me one to connect to my hose. Shouldn't be to hard. Maybe hard to find the time though! Gotta a buddy that runs a machine shop. He does really good work. I think he just got volunteered! LOL
 
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