Yeah I fully agree with everything you've said. It'd definitely a neat light. But I see Hanklights as the hotrod brand, so I'm all for the blistering heat and lousy runtime if it means I get 20,000 lumens for a few seconds. Having both available would've been nice.
It would be interesting to see if someone could mod a driver into an M44 that would make use of the cells and emitters but give it the more hotrod feel. Not sure if that's even possible.
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