Them's old graphs. They were for original versions of the Madmax run against the Badboy 500. The Badboy 400 never appeared on the graphs, but theoretically ran less brightly and for about 2 hours. Then the Badboy 400 Q3L came along. People speculated that its output would approximate the Madmax and Badboy 500, but I haven't seen graphs. Somewhere along the line the Madmax circuitry suffered an inadvertent specification change that somewhat dimmed its output but extended the runtime to as much as a reported 3+ hours. More recently, the Madmax+ has come out with more aggressive output than even the original Madmax design, attested to by 1 hr. 15 min. reported runtimes. Only a week or two on the heels of Madmax+ came Madmax+ w/ Q3x, which currently stands as Wayne's brightest sandwich.
These nights I'm running one of the Madmax+ w/ Q3x in a Brinkmann. It's noticeably brighter than any of my other sandwiches, including a Badboy 400 Q3L, though I'd have to pull out the meter again to verify by how much.
(edit) As for regulation, I can report that the Madmax+ regulates well on NiMH and falls out quickly when the batteries can no longer keep up. I base this statement on a couple battery cycles during which I compared the beam with a Badboy 400 Q3L from time to time. The Madmax+ beat the Badboy soundly with fresh batteries. The gap narrowed slightly as the batteries wore down, but the Madmax+ stayed noticeably brighter. The Madmax+ didn't match the Badboy's output until it was on the fast ride down as it started to fall out of regulation.
