My buddy’s hat lit on fire because he stood too close, mind you he was not making contact, to a several-thousand watt light when we were working on a bigger film set lol
Needless to say no one looked into the barn doors on that one. That’s a sight killer
To be fair even my small 4000 lumens flashlight can set fire to dark paper and pockets if you accidentally turn it on in one, so maybe it doesn’t need to be that bright.
Watts is what sets fires, though. It’s literally the “amount of energy delivered to the surrounding area per second”
1-2 kW is pretty typical for a single cooktop/hot plate or small space heater, so at least that same amount of energy put out by of those is going to be coming from that light. Some of that energy is in the form of the light, but at least a fair amount of it is heat, and “several thousand” could be a lot more than 1-2.
Yes, I was just interested in how bright that light could be.
For example a 1 kW LED could be much brighter than a 1 kW incandescent light.
Also a halogen light will output a fuck ton more heat which might have contributed to the fire depending on how far away the person was from the light.
Halogen this was early 2010’s when LED’s were starting to make their way on sets but gaffers/DP’s were still skeptical. Biggest LED’s I saw back then were like 4K (watt not camera resolution) equivalents. This was like a 10 or 12K watt halogen.
My buddy’s hat lit on fire because he stood too close, mind you he was not making contact, to a several-thousand watt light when we were working on a bigger film set lol
Needless to say no one looked into the barn doors on that one. That’s a sight killer
I know that would’ve been terrifying in the moment, but God that’s a funny mental image
Was the light LED or some older light source?
If it was LED it must have been insanely bright.
To be fair even my small 4000 lumens flashlight can set fire to dark paper and pockets if you accidentally turn it on in one, so maybe it doesn’t need to be that bright.
Watts is what sets fires, though. It’s literally the “amount of energy delivered to the surrounding area per second”
1-2 kW is pretty typical for a single cooktop/hot plate or small space heater, so at least that same amount of energy put out by of those is going to be coming from that light. Some of that energy is in the form of the light, but at least a fair amount of it is heat, and “several thousand” could be a lot more than 1-2.
Yes, I was just interested in how bright that light could be.
For example a 1 kW LED could be much brighter than a 1 kW incandescent light.
Also a halogen light will output a fuck ton more heat which might have contributed to the fire depending on how far away the person was from the light.
Halogen this was early 2010’s when LED’s were starting to make their way on sets but gaffers/DP’s were still skeptical. Biggest LED’s I saw back then were like 4K (watt not camera resolution) equivalents. This was like a 10 or 12K watt halogen.