Imalent DX80 32000 lumen monster

Yeah you are right, just checked aliexpress. $425 is that for real? I am gonna pass on this way too expensive.

$425? That’s insane even if you get a perfect one.

I think this kind of stuff happens regularly. A product is not for sale yet, so a vendor tries to get as many pre-orders as possible, not always letting customers know the product is not for sale yet. Since the product is not for sale yet, a google search leads quickly to the vendor as well. If I’m not mistaken MSRP is $375,- and knowing Imalent prices, this means that if you wait a few months price will drop with coupon to about half, i.e. $200,-

Haikelite is said to be working on 18000 Lumens flashlight, i hope that is correct since their quality so far is better, my DN70 is working perfectly fine though no complain here, i might get the the DN35 based on that.

Another Ali seller buth with more informathion about DX80 and MSRP price… DX80 Ali store

Well it’s listed at Banggood for $380,- IMALENT DX80 8x XHP70.2 32000LM Super-Bright Outdoor Suche LED Taschenlampe 8 Sale - Banggood Deutschland sold out-arrival notice-arrival notice
Mode spacing changed, and is actually really good 120, 500, 1500, 5000, 13000, 320000. So far so good I’d say. :smiley:

nice but what are the actual runtimes on higher lumens?
Is t 30K lumens for 10 seconds then stepdown to 2K?
Now that hyper lumen lights come to market I feel it is more how long higher luns modes can actualy run are more important then a short hyper burst

from the commercial video we can see the imalent DX80 has CPU style heatsink fins inside the head, not sure if the cooling is active like Olight X9 or not.

i think we should be making our own stupid bright light, BLF style! :cowboy_hat_face:

Well the thing is a nice 1.2 kg. My wild guess would be between 30 and 60 seconds before step down.

THIS, if this steps down to 2000 lumens after 20seconds I would see it as a 2K lumens light, funny, K lumens is what the Q8 can sustain till cells are depleted, so for this I would expect more.

And enclosed heatsink won’t help that much without a fan, air must be able to freely move especially in passive solutions, so it looks cool and all, but without a fan and good vent holes I dont think it will help much (lol and adding a fan makes it much much harder to have a nice waterproofed light (I have been looking into this for the Q16)

There should be vent holes on the side for hot air to escape. I’d say such a design is so much better than a conventional design used in flashlights; it’s an extra feature. X65 has a conventional design and is doing pretty ok. The little X80 has 25000 lumens and is super tiny… Output on the other hand might be less than claimed, so maybe 25000 lumens or so?
Of course it’s going to step down fast. But you also have the 13000 lumen and 5000 lumen mode; great output levels!

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I think it’s going to step down between 2500 and 3000 lumens.

Soon we will see fans being installed for stock lights.

Put three fingers with a small gap between them in front of the other arm and blow on them, feel how little air goes through and around.
Now place your finger tips on your arm so the fingers are round, like the little vent holes on this round head, blow, even less air goes through and more hits your arms above where the fingers are placed.
Water and air will go the way of least resistance.
So the small fin wide gaps on this light are only good if actively cooled I think.

Resistance increases as you apply pressure by blowing. I think that is a difference with the cooling principle of this light, which is based on convection (temperature difference, ambient pressure). A small breeze when walking with the light outside should make a lot of difference.

We will have to see
My bet is that with unexposed small fins and a harsh stepdown they most likely use, covering the holes will not make a large difference (IF there is no fan there so it is not cooled actively)
And since they not show a fan, something that would be really cool and a good thing to emphasize I guess that it steps down based on time when the saturation point of the aluminium is reached (probably tested in a safe 25C environment and that after that it is based on temp.
And looking at the modes, it probably kicks back to 5K lumens initially when thermal monitoring has not engaged before the stepped down time (in a hotter environment.)
As a matter of fact, if not actively cooled in such relative small light for this high price I would expect some sophistication in stepdown management and development :smiley:

Current Imalent lights are temperature controlled (50 degrees C). I’d say thermal management is good with Imalent lights; it works well. Regarding price, well I can only feel Imalent “artificially” keep price fairly high, then you get good discount making the products really attractive. Look at current line up of DN/DT models; either there is a flash sale on a regular basis for almost half price, or you have an always working discount code also reducing the price to about half. Who doesn’t know “MACDEAL” by now?
But you know Miller, the DX80 is a really good example of how new flashlights keep us geeks busy and what’s to like about them. :+1: :beer:

Heheh agree :smiley:

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the DX80 has two vent holes on either side, could be active cooling but maybe not.

An RV refrigerator runs from an ammonia mixture being pushed around through tubes by a single small flame. Would it be possible to put a small tubes system around the head and it would use the heat from the led’s to push the refrigerant around to cool the whole head and even the handle off?

Heatpipes in a flashlight is an interesting concept, especially flat ones.