I
hated this light. I bought one of these 15 million candle power lights for $29.95. I took it home, charged it, and when it got dark I took it outside along with my old normal-sized rechargeable spotlight, one I probably bought at Costco a few years ago in the 1-2 million candle power range. I'll take a picture of it when I get home, it's like a gray aluminum body with a hard black plastic handle that forms a pistol grip and also goes up on the "top" of the light so you can carry it under-handed like a lantern... the rear of the light unscrews so you can get to the battery, which I use sometimes to inflate air mattresses in the tent instead of inflating them next to the car, with an pump that alligator-clips to a battery.
Anyway, the beam from my old spotlight is sort of more flat and wide shaped rather than perfectly round, but a very smooth beam and just what you want when you're looking for something. The beam from the 15 million candle power light was round, but horribly full of criss-cross shapes throughout the beam. When I compared the beams side-by-side, I couldn't tell a difference in brightness. I lit up houses, trees, and such as far away as I could. Because of the criss-cross shapes in the beam of the 15 million candle power light, my old smaller spotlight actually lit everything up better.
Edit: In
this review of Kenshiro's, the "Wide Angle Shots" show the "Costco HID" with the nasty black criss-cross shapes I was talking about... So apparently I wasn't evaluating this light for pure Throw, and probably not at far enough distance to see it out-perform my smaller light.
It's possible I got a lemon 15-million light. Maybe others can comment on whether their beam is smooth or criss-crossed with black lines. I took it back the next day for a prompt refund. I have to say, given the size of the thing, even if it WAS better than my "normal" sized flashlight, I can't imagine devoting trunk space in my car to that huge monster.
After looking at Kenshiro's review pics, I can see where the 15-million light is better at NOT lighting up things close to you (flood), so if you're really only trying to spot things very far away it probably lives up to the task. My reason for owning a spotlight is to find something if it gets lost or to see something farther away than flashlights will reach, so I probably prefer a more floody light. If you're considering the 15-million light, make sure the size of it and the type of light it puts out actually meets your requirements.
