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Flashlight Enthusiast
Yes, the Hound dog can take it, but the hound dog is also MUCH bigger of a light. Due to size and weight they really aren't in the same category in my opinion.
The modlite is appealing because I can place it in my pocket and almost forget its there. I absolutely cannot do that with a hound dog. The hound dog (for me) is either a bed-side light for a bump in the night, or a truck light. But I'm not carrying that in my pocket or even on my belt for that matter.
Also, as far as sustainability goes, I have seen the modlite 18650 tested recently and it is able to sustain most of its output/lux for the first 5-7ish minutes from turning the light on. Once you hit the 10 minutes mark you are at about half the stated output, it seems to settle there, and is able to sustain that output for most of the remainder of the battery life. This is more then acceptable for me, because generally I'll use my light for about 3-5 minutes MAX before I turn it off and have my task accomplished.
Have you even seen the 18650 Hound Dog?
Gene is terrible with the naming convention but basically it's a MD2 (1x18650) with the full size Hound Dog head. Should have named it something else as it leads to confusion. It's not much bigger than Surefire 6P and yes you can EDC it. I did at one point until my posterity, being so impressed with it, wanted it for himself and took it. I already had 2 full size Hound Dogs and decided I don't need 2 18650 HD in the family. The MD4 Hound Dog is hard to EDC but the MD2 one disappears in the pocket. It's compact.
It's a thrower and the only light that evokes OMG ever time I use it. Made me realize anything P60 sized is dead.
Translation: Modlite like many cheaper lights which advertise xxxx lumens do not deliver because after a few minutes the output is dethrottled to sustainable levels. Therefore the stated figure is meaningless and cannot be compared to Malkoff numbers.
Surefire does it too with its Fury. Malkoff Hound Dogs, etc all sustain the stated output, because they are fully heat sinked and fully potted- that's why they are so heavy. I want heavy because I want a real heatsink. So to translate the above, a modlite is a 700 lumen light, if that given sustainable operation beyond 3 minutes because it's not properly heatsinked.
Not only that I will go on a limb here and state that long-term reliability will suffer as well. LEDs don't like heat.
Cheap chinesium lights with inflated lumens will deliver them for a few minutes with a reduced lifetime. That's how they sell them.
Frankly I do not even believe the advertised lumens anymore unless the source is reliable.
Let's not go into the return policy either.
Once you compare a disasembled SF next to a Malkoff, the above point becomes eye-opening.
Malkoff's lights are a performance bargain.
His lumens are at a sustainable performance level and he strikes just the right balance between output and runtime. There is now way to have a super high output device by any brand without paying a penalty in drastically reduced runtime.
There is no free lunch and it's just Physics 101.
If I want max throw, I will grab Hound Dog Super with 1400 lumens. It's runtime is not great with 2 cells but more reasonable with 3.
One of these Hound Dog is what I would take if my life depended on it.