If you remember, back in this post I had measured 1.88A at one of the emitters (original emitters prior to swap and after scratching away new solder point). That was with different batteries, but results should have been similar. 1.88A per emitter doesn't make sense with 4.96A coming in from the battery. 4.96A / 3 = 1.65A (that's 100% efficiency I guess).
-Garry