Re: Would this work?

["Hopkins, Samuel" <Samuel.Hopkins at marconi_com>]

>Wouldn't a cheap, efficient light source, with a great reflector, and
>tempered glass cover be a car headlight? I was thinking of various hood
>designs yesterday, and thought; "What about a car or truck headlight?" They
>are contained in their own housing and have very high output. You could
>probably go to Radio Shack and buy a 12volt DC transformer plug for under
>$10 and get a great light at a junk yard for a couple bucks. Wouldn't this
>work?

Well the headlight on my motorcycle consumes 75 watts of power. Not sure how
many lumens it puts out. If you needed a lot of light in a small space
that'd probably do it. Too bad you can't control the spectrum of them
though. =(