This document investigates detector behavior at high count rates for the Purple Crow Lidar. It discusses photomultiplier tubes, analog and digital detection modes, merging photon count and analog profiles, making synthetic data, and the effects of dead-time correction. The main findings are that combining analog and photon count detection extends the dynamic range without introducing errors, dead-time correction can cause up to an 8K (1.4%) difference in temperature profiles, and merging profiles does not contribute detectable errors.