With the uncommonly high Vf of these dimmer Luxeons, I figured they would be able to safely take on even more voltage and turn out pretty bright. And I was right.

I took one of the dimmest Luxeons and installed it in a Legend LX, a very nicely sized and handy flashlight. Running off of 2 x 123 lithiums it made for a 1.55A current draw, nothing to sneeze at. So of course I immediately put it up against two other now-known quantities, the Tuxedo Illuminator and the Arc-SLS 123-pack:

Here are the beamshots in the same order:

And light meter readings?

Arc -- 244 lux

Tuxedo -- 349 lux

LGI Shorty -- 518 lux

Hmmm, so now perhaps a run of LGI Shortys is in order...

What my workbench is looking like nowadays...

Just sharing my misery over the holidays, please don't ask as they're pretty much all spoken for 'cept the greenies.

And I'm not even talking about the Cyan Space Needles yet, they're coming up next as soon as all the parts get here.

Season's Greetings to you too...

LGI Shorty w/LAMBERTIAN

And then as I was assembling the run of 1-watt LGI Shorties it dawned on me that I might want to try the High Dome with the larger reflector of the Legend LX -- and so I did. Here it is sitting on top of an LX:

And here it is nestled down inside the cutout of the LX's aluminum reflector:

So I then put it up against a couple of similar 1-watt Luxeon lights, the Tuxedo and the Arc-SLS:

And finally the beamshots:

Notice how tight and bright the LX's reflector focuses the blue-white beam, and how intense it appears compared to the diffused beams of the other two.

So we sallied forth on to light meter testing:

Arc -- 247 lux

Tuxedo -- 352 lux

High Dome Shorty -- 561 lux

The Lambertian finally finds a home...and it's focusable.