Tonight I found myself a few nice spots to test the throw of the Superpower (at least as nice as possible without leaving my immediate area which ain't that great for nice spots), my favorite spot was a dead end that hits a river and has trees across the river, but what is really nice is on both sides of the street there are closed business offices instead of houses. If I go over to the next block's dead end in either direction I'd have houses on both sides, there is always that feeling like someone will call the cops. However what are cops going to do tell me it's illegal to shine a light over a river lol. Anyway, it hit the trees nicely, I wish I knew the distance. My only comparison was that I shined my Vinh TN42vn at the trees last week and it was a no go, it fell short and didn't help me if I had to see something or someone at the trees.
So tonight it was St Patty's Day police mania and I was shining it sort of close to a bar in the one spot and I realized it must be like a beacon call to the 100 cops crawling around so I wanted to stop. The thing is, and this slipped my mind at first, is that you don't want to turn an HID on, not let it warm up, and then turn it off...so I wanted to stop almost instantly because of police, but I didn't wanna break the warm up rule...so without looking in the direction of the light I left it on and put it back in my car on the passenger seat. It was pretty impressive how it didn't burn a hole in my retina because at 4000K it's pretty warm. Not exactly comfortable if I looked right at it's reflection on the dashboard, but for a 4.5 million CD light to be shining on a dashboard 1 foot in front of it was pretty damn bearable!! I thought that was cool, VERY nice and warm!