Aaron1100us
Enlightened
I work security at a College at night and love to go to the gym to test out my lights. Too many lights outside and the gym is pretty much pitch black plus its pretty good sized. I've had my G2 for about three years now and have allways loved that light. It has the P60 bulb and UCL lense with fresh surefire 123 batteries in it. I recently bought a Brinkmann Maxfire just because it looked alot like the G2 and I wanted to see how it performed. I figured the Maxfire would do pretty well but would be blown away by the G2. I was wrong. The Maxfire had a brighter beam, brighter, wider spill beam, better throw and lit up the Coe College sign at the other end of the gym not a lot but a little bit more than the G2. Oh, I recently bought a replacement P60 bulb for the G2. Could I have got a faulty bulb? Or is the Maxfire really brighter than the G2? I figured the UCL would also help the performance on the G2 to make it a little bit brighter. I'm confused. Oh, I also checked out my new Streamlight pro poly lux and wow, that thing was allmost as bright as the G2 and Maxfire, in throw, but not spill beam. I was pretty impressed for a 1 watt LED. Any thoughts on why the Maxfire would be brighter than the G2? I even tried another set of batteries in the G2. Thanks