Yes, I know I said I would quit making Space Needles and I have (sorta). But there were a few pewter Mag 2C host bodies laying around, and a few heatsinks waiting to be sunk, and a coupla 5W HD emitters waiting to be set free from their pesky Stars. A coupla rather highly-binned emitters, I might add:

Yup, they were X3T's (theme from "Jaws" starts thumping in the background...)

Worried to death about heat, I pulled out all the stops and took out a double insurance policy by sticking in a double-high finned heatsink stack ("normal" Space Needles only get one about half as tall):

Here it is next to my personal black-bodied Space Needle II keeper, the brightest and absolutely whitest example I have ever come across (up until now):

Disclaimer: the following beamshot on the ceiling 20 feet above was taken with the digital camera turned down to its absolute lowest setting, which has a way of making even the brightest and whitest lights look awfully dim and green -- obviously the X3T Space Needle's beam is on the left:

I initially tried taking the beamshot with the camera on its normal auto setting and all I got was a big white washed-out rectangle...

And finally, the photo everyone's waiting for:

Yes, that's a full, no-holds-barred 10,750 lux -- hey waitaminute, I didn't even put in the UCL lens yet...