GANJA IN 60 SECONDS £80,000 Porsche is left ripped apart by thieves as its high-powered headlights being used to grow cannabis

[Military Grade]

Tiny bit of trivia

 

The first light-emitting diode (LED), a red light, was developed in 1962⁽¹⁾. However, the first documented use of LEDs for plant growth studies was not until 1988 by NASA for its project investigating space-based plant growth systems, and not until 2000 for the first commercial use of LEDs for plant production in Japan

[Joolz]

various versions of this have been reported ever since they first started fitting cars with HID's 

[latigid aikon]

@Military GradeI'm surprised it was as early as 1988 TBH, LEDs were really shit until fairly recently, they couldn't make blue light which was the real breakthrough that made LEDs useful for more than tiny panel indicator lamps.

 

@JoolzIt looks like they've recycling it now cars have LED lights

 

Hang on, has anyone actually checked what technology Taycans use? They're probably lasers FFS

[BilgePump]

31 minutes ago, latigid aikon said:

they couldn't make blue light

I got some blue leds in Tandy years ago and whacked em in my fishing alarms, old style "coloured dome" type leds though , not these fancy modern chips... Tandy what ever happened to that shop?

 

Edited Monday at 20:08 by BilgePump

[Military Grade]

2 minutes ago, BilgePump said:

Tandy what ever happened to that shop?

 

All i remember is the one we had in town shut down many moons ago, i think the last thing i bought from there was either a CB radio, Police scanner or two way radios for bikes. Can't remember what order them purchases happened, i was still fairly young

Edited Monday at 20:11 by Military Grade

[dan6]

1 minute ago, BilgePump said:

I got some blue leds in Tandy years ago and whacked em in my fishing alarms, old style "coloured dome" type leds though , not these fancy modern chips... Tandy what ever happened to that shop?

 

It became Maplins I believe

[Themadhippy]

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It became Maplins I believe

nope, tandys= radio shack

[dan6]

4 minutes ago, Themadhippy said:

nope, tandys= radio shack

In that case I stand corrected 

[dan6]

Just now, dan6 said:

In that case I stand corrected 

Or maybe not....is radio shack not American?

[BilgePump]

Wikipedia reckons tandy uk became carphone warehouse

 

[Themadhippy]

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is radio shack not American

The original usa company was tandys leather  , they changed name when they bought out radio shack in the 60's but traded as tandy outside the usa

[Military Grade]

I thought Radio Shack was Tandy's own brand, So you was both wrong

 

Well done @BilgePump  mystery solved

[Themadhippy]

Realistic was there own brand label

[Military Grade]

According to Wiki

Realistic is a brand produced by RadioShack

[latigid aikon]

43 minutes ago, Military Grade said:

Police scanner

It's only a 'Police' scanner if you use it to monitor the Police

 

They have plenty of other legal and illegal uses, I used them for various pirate radio related stuff back in the day...