Welcome, Dreck.
Everyone here has different needs in lights. Everyone here also has different tastes, experiences, and opinions on specific lights (or companies). Some like brighter and short runtime (the surefire type crowd), some of us prefer runtime over brightness, and some even try to find the lights in the happy middle ground of runtime and brightness.
Keep all that in mind when asking questions.
I am sitting here in the recreation room, where I practically live, with only the flat panel monitor on, and using my PT Solo with Matrix Module (talk about addiction
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Late last year, one of our members, who has a popular reviews website, developed a Basalar Artery Aneurysm (worst possible place in the brain), and required emergency neurosurgery. Almost all of us went through a crisis, until we knew he not only survived a procedure with 90 percent mortality rate, but was recovering with remarkable speed. He is home now and wading through tons of email and slowly updating his website. Look in the Cafe for more info on this.
You will find tons of information on CPF.