Review - Imalent RT70 XHP 70.2 5,500 Lumen Monster!!!

Thank you for the nice and detailed review, I wonder how that lanyard was tied, would love to have that for other lights. Anyone knows how to tie one of these?

Got anymore pictures? I am assuming is a slip knot on the flashlight bezel, right? Got anymore pictures?

Thanks!
AlexGT

My measured cd was lower as stated so probbaly more around 600 or so as you say, still a very powerful flashlight, but not as stated I suggest

Thanks for reading. I was really exciting to have the chance to review one as I’ve got so many flashlights in the 1000 or less Lumen range and only one over 2,000, so to have one over 5000 was something I was looking forward to. The amount of light produced at this level blew me away.

Thanks. I made lots of photos, are you wanting more closeups of the lanyard? If so confirm and I’ll post some

:person_facepalming: Terrible tint shift.
Mike

Thanks for reading. A shaved dome would have really extended the range closer tot eh 903m mentioned. Still a great flashlight in my opinion as it puts out so much light. The Acebeam K65 would be an awesome one too I suspect.

I’m not an expert on Tints to be honest so not sure how to respond to the comment

Can you check to see if the bezel is glued. Remind of a slightly larger head mto7s with charging. If the price comes down about 30 dollars eventually I’ll get one.

Just tried and it seems not, however it requires lots of effort and decent gripping/rubber gloves to remove. I managed to turn a small amount with bare hands.

Great review. Can turbo be memorized?

Yes, please! :slight_smile:

That sounds good. Thanks for testing it.

Just tested, seems not

I wonder why they went with 4 parallel instead of 4s. With the haikelite version of this light 4s the voltage never drops enough so you get the full 5000 lumens until the batteries are depleted. Just seems odd they would choose a boost driver when they could have uses 2 or 4s
I guess with 4p there would be plenty of amps between the batteries for the boost driver for most of the discharge

A german friend measured his with ony 3200 Lumens
5500 manufactury spec is way too much from what it delivers

If I’m not mistaken hasn’t a good bit of imalent lights been a good bit underspec? Maybe a couple other people can test them. If they all test like that then we know

I dont have the equipment to measure lumens however with my ceiling bounce test it blew away other flashlights that I’ve tested before. The outdoor performance was amazing too, it’s significantly brighter than anything else I’ve tested. I cant be sure that it is above 5,000 but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was thereabouts. What batteries did your friend use?

I’m interested in lexels response. But just my opinion if lexel says it underperforms I believe him 100% that guy knows his stuff. And has contributed so much info to this forum. Even if yours made 4000 lumens 5500 wouldn’t seem a whole lot brighter to the naked eye. Even if he used crappy cells which I highly highly doubt. For test everyone uses high drain cells. Even with crappy cells as long as they can do 4 or 5 amps it would power it long enough for 30 seconds on Max. I doubt it’s drawing more then 20 amps. Probably not that much.
From what I’ve seen on other lights from imalent they never reach their specs. Look for yourself on the last 4 or so high powered lights. I’d still like to own this one though even if it under performs. I’m sure lexel could design me a driver for it. It’s just to expensive right now. When the mt07s can hit 5000 lumens for 46 dollars. And has 4s driver in it. Which means it gives that 5000 lumens until the light shuts off. The voltage never drops low enough to not provide full power. Like with 2s2p drivers. The one thing I like about this head is bigger and the bezel isn’t glued with a shaved dome and a lexels driver this light has major potential to be a monster. Like 7000 to 9000 lumen monster

You questioned whether/not it be AR-coated glass. If it’s hideously green, it likely is.

I actually don’t use some lights anymore because of that sickly green tint. It nasty.

But yeah, while I’m not so much a “tint snob” (getting there, but not quite yet), I despise green-tints. It’s even worse than Angry Blue™ or Angry Purple™.

So, yeah, green is a sore point to a lot of people, myself included. It could ruin an otherwise amazing light.