And I certainly haven’t forgotten the HR20 drama: a lot of samples with flickering issues, and things falling apart. Terrible wiring and build quality… You just don’t know what to get…
O yes, I’d forgotten about the HR20 - don’t know how, I bought 3 of them -
Was expecting good things after my experience with the ddt40, but they were a bit of a let down, to say the least.
I know we were pre warned they were new and untested, but even so.
Hopefully imalent will redeem themselves with these latest models, as they can make quality stuff with inovative features
Never understood that statement. All groupbuys of new lights involve new lights we don’t know how it’s going to perform… Or was it a special batch or something? I thought it was the actual production version but I could be wrong…
With the discount the price drop alot!
I cannot disagree with quality of thrunite, in my opinion is the most top brand but the output of dt35 is stunning 
That quality issue affects other light of imalent?
Certainly not all, from my limited experience of owning 5, as I said my imalent ddt40 is a great light, I’ve got probably 150 lights from various manufacturers and that is one of my most used lights, I’ve bashed it, dropped it used it underground, had it caked in mud and water and it’s carried on working perfectly, would have no hesitation in recommending it, even the holster was very well made.
The DN11 was ok quality wise,but the touch button could have been better as it’s very hit and miss, especially with gloves on.
The 3 imalent hr20 though, I was really disappointed with, as hIKARInoob said, they had problems bad wiring, bits falling of etc etc, they didn’t even get USB correctly printed, and for me the worst bit was they were ment to be ipx8 rated, mine were no more waterproof than the titanic was unsinkable.
What’s the point of a headtorch that you can’t use outside in the rain.
It probably won’t put me off buying more imalent stuff, - I’m looking at getting the dt70 - but I’ll be sure to wait until there are a good few reviews on here before I buy in future
MASSIVE review of the Imalent DT70 
a load of pics, beamshots and teardown!
LEDs have domes cut off.
yes
i think first manufacturer to shave LEDs ;)
I really want to see how dt35 performs, the dt70 seems great, but I think that not so useful because the small amount of mass and cooling fins 
Don’t know why they need to shave their leGs……… maybe they look sexier with more aerodynamics in use? 
:person_facepalming:
Curious about the lumen output on turbo; on the pictures the output doesn´t seem in the 16000 lumen range!! :cry: …
A german reviewer rated it at 13000 lumens. Not bad at all. I just wish they would stop overrating their lumens
There is a new video on the DT70 from WeAllJuggleKnives. It seems to be hard to find at the moment. It was a good review, but did not get too technical. IDK, maybe Imalent told him to not publish it yet, so he took it down? I’ll post a link if I can find it again.
Lumen is quite difficult to measure, unlike lux.
It seems we’ve had our first malfunctioning DN70 light.
Maybe someone here can give him some ideas to try and fix the issue.
I hope it’s a simple fix and not a defect, because I want to buy one. 
Yeah I just saw this one too. I’m afraid I have to avoid all these new Imalent lights; there are too many negatives already…
Here is his response:
“WeAllJuggleKnives
I had to re-edit it because I misquoted one of the stats, but don’t worry I am going to repost the review as soon as Banggood gets more of them available (they’re currently sold out, so I figure I should just wait until they have some available).”
I was reading a translated forum thread on a German site (DN70 Passaround) and they say there is a first batch which may have some problems. First batch do not have loud click sound on the switch. It may also only produce 3000 to 3200 lumen on turbo. They measured 9.5 amp draw. Stepdown occurred at 2 min 30 secs.
The second batch has loud click sound on switch, plus reprogrammed firmware. These are getting 3800 to 4000 lumen on turbo. These measure 11.5 amp. Stepdown occurred at 1 min 45 secs.
I’ll try and update this thread as I find out more info.
Thanks for the update Jason 
Even if it’s “only” 3000 to 3200 lumens, that’s actually quite respectable. I believe the competition produces a bit less than 3000 lumens; the Klarus producing only about 2100 lumens. I’ve also read somewhere than one of these lights showed “Imalet” on the display when inserting battery instead of “Imalent”… I hope there are no side effects with the second and upcoming batches.