With regards to only using SF123A. SureFire have tested and researched batteries for many years. The SF123A is custom designed and specified by SureFire to be the most powerful and safest of the 123A batteries. Made in the USA SureFire have control over the performance and safety features.
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Can anybody say Panansonic / OEM? Give them a shout and get your own batteries manufactured in the U.S. with your label on it.
www.panasonic.com/industrial/battery/oem/Research this and that, testing this and that, developing this and that, custom designed eh?....Show me the white papers. Where are they?
The only thing I believe is custom designed on these batteries is the label and packaging.
The total number of batteries any individual flashlight company purchases is a drop in the total market bucket. Are you seriously telling me and want me to accept that SureFire 'developed' their own lithium 123A battery?
Here is what actually happens. A manufacture looks at the batteries that are out there (there is your research), and matches their lamp assemblies and illumination tool criteria to maximize the potential of the existing batteries. They obviously want to ensure that manufacturer maintains quality control. I think Panasonic has that capablity at this point. It used to be Duracell, but price points forced some companies to look in other pastures.
BTW there are other really good lithium batteries out there, and there are overseas factories pumping out less satisfactory cells.
No matter how you slice it, I would venture to guess that every flashlight company is purchasing batteries actually developed by battery manufacting companies...NOT developing\contolling safety\performance improvement of batteries themselves as your language\commercial seems to indicate.
SureFire makes excellent systems, no doubt about it. But in terms of the battery story you are constantly providing all over the net, I am sorry the B.S. flag is flying on this one.
Looking forward to be recalibrated based on facts, not marketing hype.