You do realize that is candlepowerforums.com and not budgetlightforum.com
Or are you saying that candlepowerforums.com looks different than it normally does.
The first one. But I didn't realize it right away. They are both about flashlights.
Yeah, weird stuff when you go through that link ! 
Someoneās been drinking too many Budweiserās.
I wish some of these guys would find a way to manufacture these beasts. I donāt have the skills but Iād love to buy a Maxablaster 52 Mcd
Yeah itās too bad.
The most powerful one that is retail is the Maxabeam G3, which is essentially the maxablaster but with a smaller reflector 
I heard someone talking about light emitting plasma flashlights - not the laser LEP ones - but Iām not sure if itās a real thing. I was thinking today too how nice it would be to have some sort of light making technology that doesnāt generate nearly as much heat as LED
Do you mean plasma as in not HID or arc?
Uhhā¦ not really sure. I do have a Firefoxes FF5 HID and itās awesome.
I just saw that Sanwu came out with a new laser with a dimmer switch. Are you guys into lasers? If you got the blue you should be able to add a phosphor lens to make a white beam
Short arc bulbs are filled with a gas like xenon or mercury or others, and the high voltage electric arc that forms creates plasma, which is what makes light.
Also if you look at the list you will see that there are several LEP lights, which do use a laser and a phosphor to create high intensity white light
LEP = laser excited phosphor
Wow nice! I wonder where I can get a short arc light? I actually have an Acebeam W10 gen 2 and a W30. Awesome lights
The Maxabeam G3 is the farthest throwing short arc flashlight you can buy, they show up on the used market often.
HID is a type of arc lamp too, just not as intense as xenon bulbs.
Wow! Thereās one going for about a thousand smackaroos on eBay. So tempting
Thanks
2 Mcd makes it, cool! Think I got a modded BLF GT --> GT90 doing over 2 Mcd. Will verify before posting details on my Extech LT45 at 10+ meters.
Youāre welcome!
Itās one of the coolest flashlights ever
I gotta add that in then!
I wonder what a 1 Gcd light would look likeā¦ 1 x 10^9 candela. Bet weāll have those in 10 years
Thatās 63km beam distance
There are some lasers that can do half of that, like https://www.wickedlasers.com/krypton
If you put four of them together theoretically that would double the beam distance to 68km.
Ha wow thatās crazy. Do you have the formula you used to calculate that handy? I have the Wicked Arctic blue (1.2 watt) - wish Iād bought the green before they stopped shipping to US. I have a 1.6 watt green from Sanwu thatās pretty wicked with the beam expander lens
Yeah, its just the inverse square law of light
distance = sqrt( candela/0.25 )
or candela = ( distance^2 ) *0.25
The arctic blue is a really cool laser!
Most measurements people use in this forum are based on the ANSI FL1 standards. Light energy or photons obviously can travel forever, assuming they donāt hit anything. So to create a standard distance to compare beams, we measure out until the intensity drops to 0.25 lux.
You can basically measure a lights intensity at a certain distance and then calculate itās intensity at 1 meter. From there you can calculate a ārated distanceā.
Itās talked about here in the forum, just try searching for ANSI FL1.