FRITZHID
Flashlight Enthusiast
Virginia is another state where there are more deer than people. I live in a pretty urban area of Va and they are still everywhere. My furthest throwing light is a cheap $45 HID Ryobi spotlight I got from HD. The battery is extra. It is 2800 lumens and must throw a mile. Down side that makes it useless is that the beam profile projected is the arcane shape of the filament in the bulb its pretty nasty looks like a giant keyhole. Idk if its like that with most HID's or what but I will say damn does my Javelot light up everything as far as my eye can see or what? I also have the ET MX25L2 Turbo Head it throws the biggest beam I have ever seen out of anything. Beam profile out of the big Javelot is outstanding so is the beam out the ET. If you are gonna go HID go Polarion those are the only really good HID's I am familiar with but boy are they expensive! Good luck and keep us posted..
You're referring to the return wire shadow. There is a ceramic tube that surrounds it, many of us carefully use pliers to break that off in effort to reduce that shadow. Your bulb my need some slight focus adjustment as well.