Well thanks to sonicj's push in the direction of returning the light I went up to Lowe's, on my bike of course, and attempted the return of the light. Without receipt nor packaging. I did not use the @#$%^ type language and had to deal with 3 different people to ultimately get it done. The biggest stretch was remembering what day I bought the light so they could check my card against their files which has to happen on a day by day basis. Luckily I hit it the first try, guess actually, and they didn't have any more lights in stock so they just gave me my money back which was fine with me as I want to build up an overvolt halogen system as described elsewhere on this forum instead.