Yeah, that is a bit of an outlier in my testing, I think that the combo of the XHP70.2 and the VERY heavy OP on that reflector played a role in the results.
Still, I would not be shocked to see 15-20% gain in lux with a SMO reflector in the GT94 at the cost of the slight donut hole returning.
It will definitely allows you. I did disable the temperature controls on my GT, GT90 and GT4. Will do my GT94 as well later today. The courier will drop it off in the next two hours.
at 1km you will not be able to tell much as it is hard for most human eyes to even see that far clearly.
Although my statement above was a more general opinion I hold, there are exceptions to it of course but in general I pick the OP reflector when available.
In this lights case the SMO reflector has a slight donut hole (simply due to how large the die is on the LED, not much you can do about it). I am guessing the OP reflector would basically eliminate this which would be nice for everything except max range usage IMHO.
I read in some reviews that the GT94 gets hot very soon. Perhaps the step down set by the factory is to prevent the driver from getting damaged. Buck drivers are delicate. Perhaps it is better to leave the factory settings which has some good reason.
I haven’t seen a donut hole in the videos posted on Youtube. Perhaps it is very light and can only be noticed by projecting the beam onto a white wall at very short distance.