I think a thorough and quality review, like yours on the two largest flashlight forums, may generate quite a bit more than $500 of profit in extra sales for Acebeam, but perhaps not for the finnish dealer alone.
Thanks for another great review, of an impressive flashlight.
Thank you for the review, I always liked the X65, would have bought one in a heartbeat but I totally refuse a proprietary battery pack that I cannot select the 18650’s I want to use.
I notice 2 holes in the front of the X65 battery pack, is that a threaded ring? Can you access the battery compartment of the X65? Maybe there is hope after all…
I am using unprotected button top in my acebeam x60. Its modded with xml2 PDT dedome. I got it for $200 excellent condition. 18650 are very tight fit… will the spring ok in the long term?? Thanks
The pack is glued, but can be opened by any experienced modder. At least the battery pack of the first ones produced did contain 8 x NCRB, tightly wrapped, welded and glued together with some boards. Not easy to disassemble / swap cells, but the original cells are good (and in my sample they were even properly matched).
Yes but here’s the thing. You’re looking at the turbo output of 6000 lumens with a runtime a bit over an hour right? That’s how you get the a bit less than 1C rate. But turbo max is about double the light output. This means discharge rate is closer to about 2C, 6 or 7 amps? NCR18650B is rated at 5A or not?
Do you still have your R50 that was measured at 1178 lumens? Have you measured that with your current setup?
10,500 Ă· 5 is 2100 lumen each. Do you think that sounds about right for an xhp35-HI at 30 seconds?
It might be accurate assuming the driver was pushing the leds really hard. I don’t think you took the driver out or measured the amp draw on it, did you?