Hey how are you doing man, nice to see you back. :partying_face:
Yeah I know what you mean. You need to have the right environment to benefit such output. Dense forest with super tall trees in a ~10 to 20 meter range will make the light shine. In an open environment you will be blinded by the spill in front of you while a large part of the lumens will be tossed in air making it useless.
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Quote: “…In an open environment you will be blinded by the spill in front of you while a large part of the lumens will be tossed in air making it useless.”
Yes, true, correct, succinct and well said. I agree that most of the light is tossed away from where it can be of use, and the close in glare makes viewing anything impossible. I have several legacy lesser flooders that do this not quite on such a grand scale. I do not need the current offering that does this in the biggest way.
I want the current offering that does this in the biggest way.
Have you heard anymore about it seery, like specs?
$300.
I was way off. Great value for lumens compared to a couple of their previous high powered lights.
Great output for 300 dollar! And I like the size, the design and the colour led option. In the picture in post #2 I do not see a 233A though, must be a picture of a prototype.
$300 sounded like a great value until I realized all those 22000 floody lumens were at a nasty 6500K.
Pretty much standard procedure or not? Perhaps there will be a NW version as well, just like with the X45.
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Now if the next light could ditch the useless leds and add some throwers in the middle instead
Thank you for the updated News seery! I see now, that this will run at 4000lm, for 1.5 hours. That is tough to beat in this industry, and becoming standard operating procedure for Acebeam. :sunglasses: :+1:
Yes 25000 lumens and 299 USD
O YES IT DOES.
Can this light use with x65 battery pack?? I am sure it can… what do you guys think?
Some update pictures of X80.
I was going to order Nitecore SRT 9: but, I decide to hold after I see the photos.
Best of all, no more green tint like X45
I like the exhaust vent on it. And it’s a lot smaller than I thought.
This looks like something someone at BLF would custom build for fun, not something I’d expect to see commercially-produced. 25k lumens, only 1.1 cd / lm, and only one minute at a time on the highest mode. It’s like a flash bulb — very very bright in a wide area for a short time. For comparison, the Meteor is often considered pretty floody… and it gets 4.5 cd / lm. Its beam is four times as focused as the X80.
Would probably be pretty useful for photography, but I’m not sure when else I’d need so many lumens at such a short distance.
It’s not exactly a light bulb either though… those are more like 0.1 cd / lm, or maybe 0.2-0.3 cd / lm when used in a directional lamp.
At the other end of the spectrum, there’s the BLF GT. It only emits 10% as many lumens, but the beam is 46 times as intense with ~500 cd / lm. Useless for up-close tasks but great for seeing things far away.
Not really sure what to make of the X80.
Thanks TK for the cd/lm number calculations, very insightful!
Weird enough I’m very much attracted to the X80, not because of the output but because it just looks really good. 
To add to the cd/lm discussion: lm/cd (the reciprocal of cd/lm) is an approximate measure of the beam area (solid angle), and so the square root of the lm/cd ratio is a measure of the angular beam width.