Well as far as the 3D working better if you look at FLR they are all very close and the 4D looks brighter once it settles down at about 58% of its intial output where the 3D settles at about 53%, using FLR numbers the 4D would be brighter once temp stablized. This looks like a really good buy so I may just do it for all the money I've spent this is a fair deal. The thing is I WANT A 2D damn it but no one seems to think 2Ds are important, I find that strange. In the end I probably should have just went an bout a 2D Mag LED light, and then waited on the Cree XR-E drop ins, they can't get here soon enough for me.
I think with the FLR numbers as far as the differences we may be looking at the Luxeon lottery. With the 2D at 6800 throw if I had to guess It looks like MAG was shooting for an output that would produce around 7000 throw(as far as the way FLR measures it) in other words it looks to me that MAG was shooting for around the very same output with all three LEDs(the 2D being tougher to do) and the only difference would be run time. In other words they weren't trying to make the 3D 8% brighter then the 4D and 10% brighter than the 2D if anything I see they really cranked up the 2D to reach the 3 and 4D output the best they could and in the end there at FLR we're seeing the Luxeon Lottery in effect if they had another 3 to test the 4D may come out on top.
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