<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by StuU:
Try polishing the reflector and using a lithium battery. Light output will improve rather markedly. I tried this with 2 Infinity lights - one left standard for comparison. Big improvement.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I was too lazy to try to polish the 'reflector', without messing up the LED itself, so I just painted it white with glossy enamel. It does help. So does a lithium battery.
I have a white, green, and turquoise CMG Infinity. The white is nice for reading, and close up work, but it's fairly dim. If your eyes a fully dark adjusted, you can see farther than you might imagine, but if something gets lit up brightly, you lose your night vision. The green is brighter, but the color distortion really bugged me. I found the turquoise one to both give more light than the green or white one, and the color distortion isn't as bad. So if I had to pick just one, it would be the turquoise. And then a white Arc-AAA for when you need more white light in a small package. Doesn't have the long run time the CMG Infinity, but is very small, and weighs very little. About 5 hr run time on an alkaline battery, and probably 2.5 to 3 times the light of a white CMG Infinity. Excellent as a backup, or whatever. Mine is with me 24/7.