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I read* that the Phaart and RSP lights are made by the same OEM using the same mould but the RSP one is brighter. If you want a brighter light, the same £10 will buy two Phaarts and let you distribute your light more effectively and have a bonus safer failure mode, i.e. one out of two lights rather than zero of one lights.
It annoys me that I didn't do this kind of googling before buying a PDW Spaceship 2 for £10 from Wiggle. I've since found that although the Spaceship casts a beam so narrow I suspected the designers never rode bikes, the same case is used for another PDW model which has 3xPricetag and 500% better lighting AND a Smart model. This despite PDW going on about "how they design their lights". FFS.
[*a thread on some other forum which came up as a Google result for search terms I've forgotten]