Imagine a world where it was all powered by the bmw s85 instead.

@@hello7533 it would be a world where the generators sound awesome, but have an oil leak every hour.

@@Risk0s yeah, you wouldnt want the machine that makes rod bearings powered by one tbf.

Just like USA which had Chevy V8 powered air raid sirens during the cold war

OwO

same lol

Me Too!

Same, I skipped through at first just to make sure, lol 🍻

Very Cumbersome And Inefficient

Amazing isn't it

The Germans are master craftsmen, I don't think I've ever seen or used a German product that isn't far superior to the same product of a different origin.

@@sonacphotos Well, they have to compete with the global market and with changing customer wishes. Cars are not only commodities but also lifestyle products, engineers have to find a balance between affordability, style, longevity and the modern environmental awareness.

Apple products don't run past 6 years and they call themselves Geniuses!!

@@sonacphotos True. Real german quality rarely exists today, because we let produce our products mostly in China like anyone else. Also, you don't make a lot of sales, when your product lasts forever...

@@redpillproductionscanada5563 Bullshit. German cars don't hold value and break within just a few years.

It's amazing the WWII stuff you can still find today. Sometimes an old warehouse is emptied or someone's basement.

@@robertthomas5906 Not to mention how much equipment was produced during WWII

Was looking for this comment. Had i not found it, i would have made it.

@@leonotthelion I saw a movie that was made in 1946 or 47. One of the first WWII movies and it was placed post war. They showed aircraft that was destined for scrap. Row after row after row. Then I think of the Kaiser ships that were made. I think he was launching 13 or more ships a day. We made ships faster then they could sink them. Then think of all the stuff that was made for those ships. It's incredible. Today we seem to have so many people that can't even make their own bed. Blame it on other people.

@@robertthomas5906 we still have a ton of Japanese and american ww2 equipment like rifles clothing supplies lying around in army warehouses in south korea and the north koreans have a bunch of soviet equipment lying around too

The Germans have always been professionals at wasting factory hours

It's really quite impressive. I'm glad they don't just leave it sitting in an exhibit but actually restored it and have it working again.

@@dogfag They've also created a situation where I have used their components in my control panels for almost 20 years and never been out on a warranty replacement for any of their equipment. Can't argue with that, nobody wants the 3am call out in the pitch black, middle of nowhere.

It wasn't only the searchlight the engineering went into. Sadly, (preparing for) War was the (main) reason for it. Many things we think are inventions from nowadays are from back then (f.e. guided Bombs, Stealth Planes, Cruise Missiles, ballistic Missiles, ... ).

Everything we have now is because of war. All the technological advancements ever were due to war research. Microwave? Now we put em in sattelites and use em to blow up IED's

Yeah but holy shit did you look at the watts? They had a 150+A peak when the arc was drawn from the short. They ran it at 60 volts and 100 amps, that's 6 kilowatts. That's 8 horsepowers of counter rotating force just from the electric load

Yes, that light draws quite a bit of current, and a similar thing happens when a diesel-electric locomotive applies dynamic braking, passing current through resistance grids on the locomotive sides, blowing off the heat while using the resistance to slow down the locomotive in addition to the wheel brakes.

@Bitterman mols per joules? What exactly are they measuring?

@Bitterman Ah got you :3 Didn't exactly expect to see moles of photons being measured when cd is an SI unit but it does make sense. But also mmol are milimoles, not micro :p

@@whatevernamegoeshere3644 nowdays, a LED that draws 6KW will makes 100x times the light that halogen light does, pretty crazy

Wasn't the old Reichstag complex re-purposed for out door concerts during the 80s'?

@Tiberius I'mserious hehehe, Hitler rolling and rolling in his grave since '45!

​@@Cracktaculus no, it was renovated in the early 60's but agreements made so that the government couldn't assemble in it, so until the reunification it was used for occasional representative meeting and one-off events

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8pnldZ0zriqfHk.html this one?

@@Cracktaculus actually Hitler stood dead center in the so called Cathedral of Light produced by that things bigger brother the 150 cm searchlight ..... 150 of them lol. It was visible from Britain.

And then Flak it. With blanks, of course :D

Yeah, but then you'd want an anti-aircraft gun and all, getting much more complicated! ;-)

BRING THEM ONE !!!

@@simplywonderful449 I know where to get a proper 8.8cm FlaK 37 with variable timed fuse shells XD

@@carebloodlaevathein6732 In Germany they are also easy to find xD In my city they still find FLAK ammo or allied bombs on pretty much every construction site... Just a few weeks ago they found 2 15 kg 10.5 mm FLAK grenades on my favorite running route and detonated it there 😅

Now the real question, how many search lights to cook a chicken ?

@@ProCommentateur how many slaps to illuminate the sky?

So my wimpy 4KW Onan generator wouldn’t have been up to the task. 😄

@@stefanlurxl2139 what else would you power it with? a hand crank?

That's a small one. Hollywood used larger ones.

Yeh...he said they had 2m ones..shine it on the moon an you got daylight

200cm one had light intensity of 2400000 candela and was powered by 120KW generator. It was used to detect bombers so it could light the planes like 12km in the air.

damn,thats a smaller one?

@@votpavel Yeah. This is the 60cm one. Diameter that is. The largest one is 200cm. That's close to a 7 foot diameter

@@tolga1cool that must have been something back when they used them

"Sammler" is an old German Word for Batterie. So Sammlerlader should bei a Battery loading Devise.

@@Simsonschieber lol wusste ich gar nicht

@@Simsonschieber korrigiert, danke

@@ApicalisHD res könnte eine Stellung des Benzinhahns sein. Dann wäre es die Stellung für Reserve.

I love that the word for ‘fuel’ in German literally means ‘powerstuff’

Check out the video of anatomy of the German electric torpedo. Talk about sophisticated engineering, and this was 80 years ago.

​@@elultimo102 For me personally, it is more shocking that are plenty of nations out there which could not produce tanks and planes with the same capabilities and in the same quality like the second world war icons. I bet there are at least 50 nations and more which could not crankt out someting like a tiger, spitfire, bf 109, p 51 mustang, B 17, pershing or let alone something like the Type XXI submarine class.

The nazi engineers advanced technology far ahead of there time.

80 year old machine. Nowadays let's see what lasts over 5 years.

@Tiberius I'mserious Our planet has been habitable for a period much larger than the human race was in it, i have no problem believing something else could have lived here before us and then took it to the stars. We are, after all, lucky to presence those videos the pentagon had to admit were real first hand, and they are absolutely astonishing. Maybe those are the advanced civilizations that lived here long ago, now somewhere else and coming to visit us to see our progress? That would explain why we weren't conquered by them long ago, they are our ancestors. Or even our creators. Makes you think.

Thanks Jeroen, I've Googled it and decided to put this one on my bucket list of interesting military engineering. Do you coincidentally have any other recommendations?

This was indeed a very stupid things to do. I hope the police fined that guy.

@@HextorBane Oh my what a tragedy, a lightbulb in the corner of the eyes of the bored pilots while the autopilot runs! The state better steal his money so they can waste it on worthless shit!

@@em4703 Yes, but I bet you won't like to be in that plane when that happens.

@@em4703 You never know what you are interfering with. Would not have thought to see a comment excusing endangering hundreds of lifes. Fuck you.

its german of course it still works

070721/1339h PST 🇺🇸 Why was this analogy, even, scripted, may I ask? HID= High Intensity Discharge . The smaller ampullae contains Xenon Gas that ignites when a very high voltage (25,000 V) is applied. There’s no Carbon Rods in those bulbs, FYI . Even much much before the Eastern Country could copy and manufacture Automobile compatible HID Systems, USA had Mercury Vapour Lamps, Metal Halide lamps, High Pressure Sodium Vapour Lamps and Low pressure Sodium Vapour Lamps.

@@sreekumarUSA I believe the comment is a comparison of effect, not manufacturing capabilities. When people use the incorrect bulbs in their automobile headlights, mistakenly thinking it is an "upgrade", it actually causes a dangerous situation for on-coming traffic because the beam is far too intense and focused. Like a searchlight..

@@carwashadamcooper1538 It's actually just all over the place and NOT focused...

lol

@@sreekumarUSA whoosh

@Jason the Germans were known for their quality , but now , unfortunately they’ve learned how to make junk

We have been pretty good at engineering...but nowadays far from it. Today we need 10years + for an airport, in WWII we build an airplane from scratch in 3 month. Sadly that was a fighter aircraft.

@@stefanmargraf7878 that's a fair comment. But today there is alot more building & health and safety regulations that have to be considered when building an airport. That's not even factoring in political cronyism.

You have to consider Hr started building his army away before the WWll. Early 30S. So he had time to build and invest in research development & design and engineering. With this in mind, it was possible to nuture young minds into becoming engineers. Sad these days it seems everyone copies other peoples ideas...🤔 Rather than invent their own.

Jason The biggest mistake Hitler made was to let the many highly sophisticated Jews emigrate/escape to the enemy‘s side. Einstein was the most famous one of them. Would the US have started the Manhattan-project without him having pushed for it ? When you take a weight piece off one side of the scale it’s a loss. When you then place onto the other side of the balance it counts twice against against you.

Here is a video about using a carbon arc from film industry: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8pnldZ0zriqfHk.html

Me too 😀

Nazi

Congratulation for the dumbest Post under this Video. Shame...

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rotten eggs work better, keep a dozen in your glove box and use as needed or tape one under your dash for emergency lol

When I was in High School, I mounted an aircraft landing light on my old 66' Bonneville for that exact reason. It would light up the whole mountainside. And when activated, you could watch the oncoming offender swerve from being blinded. Had to have a 90 amp alternator to run it. Sadly, the cops made me take it off. But great fun while it lasted. Greetings from Alaska.

ah yes, fight the asshole by being a bigger asshole... classic.

@@DrunkenGamer666 sometimes thats all you can do 😁

Do you mean a _merry_ go round? As in a carousel, roundabout, hurdy-gurdy, or merry-go-round? Or something about marriage going around?

Yeas a carnival amusement machine, I serviced many machines in the hydraulic industry in my Life in Australia.... all the machines i serviced, i only rode the carnival machine only one time.. LOL. Edgar @@coloradostrong

5400W exacly :) w=a*v

Hell, I would really like to see two-hundred-beast...

The final solution to the night question.

The generator maybe was still doable, but the raging Flugabwehrgeschütse next to the light sure was deafening.

@@jantaliban1 I'm surprised the Search light didn't have a panel to remotely control the generator. Adjust rpm and field current. Considering how complex most of this thing is... a remote would have been easy!

@@colintinker7778 It's all mechanically controlled. You'd need actuators and so on and that without any digital control. Having a human there is much more feasiable in the 1940s

@@bcfuerst I was thinking along the lines of cables. Just as on bicycles but longer.

Radios and intercoms were expensive equipment at time and need extra skills. And all available electronic components were used for radios in Tanks ships and manpacks. But manpower are cheap and alwwas on hand. A team to operate such piece of equipment got a crew of 3 to 4 man. one man operate the searchlight, another the genset, a third man guard the site , and the 4th has to rest to be fit for his next turn.

Arc lights are very old technology, even older than filament lightbulb itself. While it was a popular choice in lighthouses, they were too powerful for individual uses... LEDs are about 10x more efficient, but still 500W LED lamps sound like something quite big

@@cola98765 There's a 1500W LED module available: store.yujiintl.com/products/yujileds-bc-series-high-cri-cob-led-900h-1500w-pack-1pcs Video on KZfaq of a guy testing it: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mKiGYJSHs73Xk3U.html

The beam focus is very good.

You never ask a German. He may BS you, just for the "fun" of it...

@@totalitaer. nooooo we would neeever :P

Nah

I don't give a shit about what you read

@@yuzoookun Good, then we hold each other in equal level of interest.

Exactly, me too. Thumbnail looks like loading of AA gun.

Well, the Germans did have a 60cm mortar as well (yes that’s right, a 60 *cm* mortar)

@@MrOiram46 The Karl-gerät. (Karl device) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Ger%C3%A4t

It IS kind of an HID but not based on high pressure xenon gas filled arc lamp but with carbon sticks (that wear down from oxygen burning arc). Todays HID strikes with high voltage and this one does with a little short circuit arc* that gets streched to the point where it jumps over to the main carbon stick. *(Hence the massive RPM drop in the generator during the strike)

Interesting, thanks for the reply. 👍

A bit big for EDC though...

My grandmother told me how she could see Kiel and Lubeck burn, from tens of kilometers away, and that it looked like fireworks. She was a teenager then. Terrifying doesn't begin to describe it. She also told how they had to pull the bombed-out people out of the trains from Hamburg and how the retreating Wehrmacht just stacked their weapons at the trainyard where little boys played with the panzerfausts. My other grandmother told about planes attacking refugee trecks in the East. One grandfather told of the NAPOLA and how, after the Nazi staff made off in a Kübelwagen and told the boys to trust in the Fuhrer, giving them rifles and pointing them to the front, he became a displaced person at about 12 years of age (they saw the Red Army and decided not to fight), and how the Allies doused him with DDT, all over, because of the lice. The other grandpa didn't want to say much of anything at all. Yep, the Nazis fucked my family up good. Imagine the trauma. Decades later, the verdict would be "PTSD, all of them". Truth be told, the entire German people probably badly needed therapy and never got any. ... You can be sure they paid for what they started, in their hearts and minds. So did their children and grandchildren. Screw Nazis, screw them with a rusty chainsaw.

What the RAF crews called "being coned". Often, it was their doom.

@@kneedeepinthedoomed At the time she told me this I was too young to understand what war was and nobody spoke about it. Probably because of all the bad things they experienced an saw. A whole nation brainwashed and lead into hell. That it may never happen again.

@@prillewitz Happening right now in the usa rofl

Very cool 👍🏻

Yeah I was a bit surprised by how much trouble they were having, just find a German or point google at it

@@QuinnHartmann Yeah! A Heritage Aviation Centre full of WW history, and they don't have anyone understanding German??? Surely they have that sorted by now. Feels a bit comic to me like the policeman in 'Allo 'Allo...

they can, but the consumer rather wants cheap shit

VEE KAN SHOOT DOWN ENEMY PLANEZ BY POINTING BRIGHT LIGHTS ON THEM! Hitler or Göring, maybe

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Ich werde meinen 2002 nie wieder so sehen

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