At that time, we used to produce quality...

a simple and perfectly functioning German engineering art.

German engeneering then and since 2015 comes comes more and more engeneers and doctors over the sea 😂

The sophisticated German engineering at the time is beyond its time-been copied by the allied nations post war at many fields

I have always wondered how these work, thank you for posting!

Wow

Incredible! Just incredible.

For a moment I thought smoke would come out and explode, but it works like a beast. 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣 german engineering 🛠⚙🔩🔧🪛🗜⚖

And I thought this was going to be a boring walk around of an old, dead artifact. Never mind my mind being blown because I never knew arcing was used for lighting, they even fired it up and gave a proper demo! Cheers.

That elevation and rotation mechanism looks so smooth, suprising for a 80yr peice of kit D:

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I was not expecting to see it working. Bravo!

When I see this stuff it always makes me sad that Germany lost

Damn, i though it just had some big lamp. It's even working.

Such an amazing machine

So how many lumens?

😳

Before the advent of powerful gas-discharge lamps, spotlights and cinema, devices operated on electrodes.

I wonder if you mount this searchlight on the front of high altitude plane and switch it on against bomber formation during the night is it going to blind the pilots to a degree where they'll crash? Or cause a seizure or something? 🤔

IMPRESSIVE!!!!

So cool

I thought: how complicated can it be? In the end it's just a big flashlight. So in fact they did not have a extra large and bright light bulb back then ;-)

Why does she have clipped wings?

We have one in our village... It's a completely rusted bare frame

Very nice Video. Thank you

Love the old tech in these lights; we used to be so clever, I blame the digital age; everything is just too easy now.

Those arc lamps have a very broad spectrum of light. They produce very intense ultraviolet light in addition to the visible spectrum. The doping of the salts in the rods alters the light spectra as well. About thirty years ago a US version of a shipborne carbon arc searchlight came in to my possession. We wired it up to a 240 volt electrical outlet (way too high of voltage but it worked) and turned it on at night. It looked like a martian heat ray from "War of the Worlds". Finally I had to shut it down within two minutes because of the smell of burning plastic. The 10 AWG power cord had melted all of the insulation off of the wires and the glowing hot copper wires were writhing around on the floor like red hot snakes. Its not spoken of much but an arc lamp of that vintage makes a terrible buzzing noise because there is a coil mechanism that keeps the rods moving around to sustain the arc. It sounded like being next to a welding machine. I had picked it up because I thought that I could salvage out the big parabolic mirror to make a telescope. Once I extracted the mirror I realized that it was definitely not optics grade glass. It had bubbles and all sorts of defects in the glass so that ended that project.

If you need any engine spares for the generator engine I have a large stock of 320/326 parts , I have a few military engine parts as well. I also rebuild pre-war BMW engines .

that night footage is ridiculous

It’s interesting that it has a petrol driven generator. I wonder where they got their petrol from in 1945 as supplies were running low and how many search lights were unable to operate due to fuel shortages?

Impressive. 👍🏻

Are you planning on doing a restoration on the light and generator?

German workmanship the best

You remember the Abba song called "Supertrooper"? it was about a powerful spotlight used in concerts which was essentially a scaled down version of this type of spotlight. Can't use SuperTroopers any more as they emit harmful fumes when running, not good when you have thousands of people in an arena or theater. But for their day they were an awesome piece of equipment.

In some war games, they're one of the first things I will destroy when flying. They must have been prime targets, who was responsible for destroying them and how?

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Need a light??

It would be a great addition to a fireworks show.

Do they still use this technology in modern searchlights?

Very interesting and careful explanations!!!! Thanks a lot!!!!

He was wrong about the morsecode communication between the crew!!! At 1:03 there is everthing translated to german and I will translate it for you to english. Three dots mean "electrical power on", engine is already running and they should just turn the current for the light on. Brighter, more voltage, translates to two dashes. Dimmer, less voltage, to one dot and two dashes. Turn the engine on = . _ Turn the light on = ... More Voltage = _ _ Less Voltage = . _ _ Turn the light off = . Turn the engine off = . _ . _ .

THATS A MAGINIFYING GLASS THEY CAN BURN YOU WITH TTHat things thats no serch light man that a murder weapon

Really impressive what germans did for WWII.

That is in amazing shape after 70 years! That must have been a horrible feeling to be in a Lancaster and that light found you while on a raid over Germany.

Awesome that you show the whole system including the demonstration. If you need help with the German just answer this comment and I can translate the words.

Leave it to the Germans to over engineer a searchlight, but I guess they were better than our klunky units.

Then some suit shows up and gets to do all the popular fun stuff

Excellent work lads.

I like it! High quality, it still works.