BEAMSHOTS!

Some VIP beamshots against known lights to show output from different brightness settings and different heads. Not much to say for now, will let the pics do the talking:

VIP on lowest setting vs. these guys:

Beams in same order against wall from only about 4 feet away, but even at just 30mA (and 40+-hour runtime) the VIP still overwhelms -- you can’t even see the Photon clone’s beam.

So mebbe a little closer (like from one foot):

And the light meter says:

Okay nuffa dat, time to crank up the volume (to the Medium brightness setting) vs a Super Baby Pin and SF L4:

Beams in same order from 10 feet away:

Then shining 20 feet up onto the ceiling:

Then across the room:

And the light meter said:

Time to get serious now. This will be VIP w/2-inch BulkHead vs Pelican R2H HD McModule with its excellent and highly-regarded PR reflector, not to mention two CR123 batteries vs. the VIP’s single battery:

VIP makes a brighter, tighter spot although both lights exhibit the same large sidespill aura (not shown in this pic unless I backed up another 20 feet or so):

Then again at 2,060 lux the McModule is no slouch in the output department:

But neither is the VIP, producing 2,570 lux on its medium brightness setting.

But ENOUGH of this pussy-footin’ foolin’ around at nursery-checkin’ light levels. I have been spewing silly phrases like, “will have output similar to the Space Needle II”, so it is time to put the VIP to the acid test again my personal Space Needle II:

This rather dramatic next beam shot is of both lights shining simultaneously into a stand of trees exactly 76 yards away as measured by a laser range finder:

The beam from the Space Needle II is on the left and is obviously brighter, although at over 8,000 lux vs. just 4,000 lux from the VIP, it should be.

So the VIP rolls up its sleeves and dons its combat armor, in the form of the Big Reflector:

And although producing a smaller hotspot (after all it is still a single-die Luxeon vs. the 5W with four dice), the VIP’s spot is very obviously brighter:

Well, I guess it’s really beginning to look like what I predicted all along has finally come true:

Once you get a VIP, what else do you need?

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