Believe it or not, I am actually getting somewhat bored with the pursuit of maximum output. I do have a few lights of recent build that I focused on quality more than quantity. Even dialed back my Texas Poker with a Nichia emitter for the more pure spectrum of light offered. The beam profile is now gorgeous and I’m very happy with it again. At under 800 lumens. (What? You didn’t think I was going to say a couple of hundred or something did you? )
My Intimidator is “only” making about 5000 lumens on it’s 96CRI XHP-70, the parts that once had it making ~650Kcd are in the box.
I have plans to build a 20,000 lumen light, but frankly it’s not as exciting a concept as it was when I ordered all the metals to build it, so I haven’t started. Weird, when you think about it. I haven’t even finished my Marvin the Martian green laser ray gun, and it’s about 55% complete.
Maybe it’s time to silver solder a stack of old silver half dollars together and machine a pure silver flashlight…