DIY Drone-Mounted 1000-Watt LED Light Provides Fantastic Nighttime Video Effects

Along with drone technology and the advancement of user-modified drones, another thing that has also been evolving is LED technology and the way people use it. In this four-minute video, you will see a good example of the combination of these two technologies, as Stratus Productions mounted a 1000-watt LED light to a Freefly Systems Alta 8 drone.

The story of building the 1000-watt LED bar started last year, and in this video, it is attached to a drone for its first flight. As it's told in the video, with some battery modification, both the drone and the LED bar can run for about ten minutes. Taking the required power into consideration, ten minutes of running time sounds miraculous.

In addition to lighting aerial videos at night, this experimental system (or builds similar to this system) can also be used for a variety of other purposes, from lighting subjects at any time of the day when shooting from the ground to aiding in search and rescue activities. If you have any LED-based custom-modification experience with drones, please share it with us in the comments below.

For some gorgeous sample footage shot with this rig, skip straight to the two-minute mark in the video.

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Thats amazing! The smoke/fog shots were incredible. Link for the lights?

link to the lights is on the 2nd paragraph Evan

Way cool. Love the tree shots. This is going to freak someone out one night as more people attempt this.

Cool - yes, but practical applications in fields of search and rescue for example are huge.