tactical blinding device

After reading the disposible flash projector website, I got this handy idea for a non-metal "weapon". A flashbang has got the main disadvantage that an ejected fuse could make your non-letal weapon quite deadly, but what if you could generate enough candela electronically?

It seems simple enough to modify a disposible camera so that it will emit a blinding flash. You could almost as easely make a small, easy to hold device, with two or more stronger lights, with multiple capacitators lined up in series and a slot for a battery or two (I've got some lying around)

The result would be that you could flash somebody, and make your way out of a "situation" without anybody getting hurt (you included).

Before I start playing around with this (I'd have a chance in a month or so), am I terrebly mistaking somewhere, am I going to get myself killed, or will the device end up as nothing more than a flash-light that couldn't blind a mole?

No i know what youre thinking although it would have to ahve a burst affect as the eye would not addapt as easily

Hahha you ahve yet to prove yourself

post LOTS of info and start lots of convos in this section the well have a vote

well the idea would be for it to only flash forward, so 40° would be perfect for ranges from 1-2 meters

I was also thinking of something else than a camera flash tube, more like a few, more powerfull lights.

Fallen: aren't those resistor formula? When you link batteries in series, their voltage get's combined, and since tazers use capacitators linked in series i figuered ...

hell, I have still got plenty of research to do anyway, and S25's argument is still the best one to simply abandon this project.

well the idea would be for it to only flash forward, so 40° would be perfect for ranges from 1-2 meters

I was also thinking of something else than a camera flash tube, more like a few, more powerfull lights.

Fallen: aren't those resistor formula? When you link batteries in series, their voltage get's combined, and since tazers use capacitators linked in series i figuered ...

hell, I have still got plenty of research to do anyway, and S25's argument is still the best one to simply abandon this project.

Go and flash yourself in the face with a camera. Even expensive external flashes for professional applications arent going to do much from a range < 40cm or so. Definitely not enough to stop someone chasing after you etc.

"I was also thinking of something else than a camera flash tube, more like a few, more powerfull lights" Well camera flashes arent 'lights' they are gas discharge tubes. So I assume you mean something with a fillament. -- no way.

Quite simply, it isnt an effective means of blinding someone.