Lightball.

[user]

Ok, I have the powerball neon. Its very pretty in a dark room.

But it got me thinking that, well, it doesnt glow enough. It glows enough to light up itself, but somehow I find myself trying to wind the thing up fast enough to make light to see by.

So, heres hoping that a "lightball" gets produced. Led torches can produce quite powerful light nowadays - if this thing emitted enough white light to see by that would be really neat. I ould take it camping and not worry about batteries :)

Chris Becke

[user]

A powerfull light would really slow down the ball.

And I'm sure that, with yours, you should obtain great light by running the ball at high speeds.

skydarkin

[user]

yeah it would slow it down but I think it would be REALLY great if there was a powerball that was just focused on producing light. like it would still spin, but just fast enough so that you could keep it going. I really think something like this should be made, because one of the coolest things about a powerball is that it produces light just from the work you do with your hand. Please make a powerball like this!

Andy

[user]

You would still have to spin it very quickly to make enough power, it would take as much, or likely a little bit more energy than it would to turn a crank on a generator.

It would be very cool though.

I'm also curious whether the led powerballs have current limiting resistors. Has anyone looked at theirs carefully?

Nick Wimpney

[user]

I was thinking along the same lines. Use a powerball as a mini generator for camping etc. I'm sure with some clever electronics, it can charge up a battery pack.

The primary use would be to just power up an LED torch (a-la an Inova).

Definitely better than having to hand crank, and easier to use while walking. Powerball flashlight(TM) you heard about it here first.

NPC