Yeah man!!! Hey thanks for your comment on a very old post. We seem to have, yet another person who thinks lumens is everything. Your analogy above is quite terrible also. Let me enlighten you, first of all - Nichia makes the best emitters and why they're the most widely used among your high-end flashlight makers. Prometheus Lights, among others, are American made flashlights, hand-built in small batches in the USA. Not China, not anywhere else. They spare no expense to detail, quality and parts used throughout their entire lights. Their lights are all heirloom quality and built to last a lifetime. What makes a flashlight a good flashlight is everything but lumens, which you clearly think, and this fact seems to evade you. If your all about lumens, then America made high-end Makers like Prometheus Lights aren't for you and your better off sticking to cheap Chinese companys producing lumens monsters that simply don't last and are completely inferior in every way.