The beam in the photos looks very blue; quoted run-time of 45 seconds on turbo and 1 minute on high (8,000 lm). 72 minutes at 2,000 lm would be useful with NW emitters; a single cell version of the Haikelite MT03 and MT09.
It looks quite strangely proportioned. A floody light of that size should have a larger battery area surely…
Should have high efficacy at low-mid levels, though I’m very sceptical of the 13k claim.
Make sure to use 30A+ cells and oven mitts.
No, no, no. You’re conflating “Imalent” with “Immolate”.
But who knows. Maybe it’s got a 13000lm pre-flash, then steps down to something less… fiery.
“Immolate” is what happens when this accidentally turns on in your pocket! :smiling_imp:
What a nice feature. :heart_eyes:
Brief, maximum turbo in a flashlight is kind of like underwood 10 mm Glock 29. I don’t plan on using them much, I don’t use them much, but it’s nice to know that they’re there if needed.
Nice pillars of creation avatar!
I hate the usb-c rechargeable batteries. I wish the usb-c was on the flashlight host. Given this is Imalent, I’m pretty sure actual lumens is about 10-11k lumens. Their QA got better with the MS18 and R90TS so quality should be good.
That thing is an expensive dynamite stick. Taming 3 xhp70.2 esp. 6v is a tall order. You’d need a crazy boost driver on 1 cell. 90W for one battery is asking a lot. Given losses in the driver for efficiency, true draw is probably closer to 100W or more.
yes tell me about it lol… for that power u want a blf q8 ish host or something as minimum to handle that kind of lumens…. who the heck wants 10k lumens in their pants ? lol… :person_facepalming:
Me. I want 15K so I probably won’t buy this 
richbuff wrote:
Yeah, so we can see it coming, right? A well-lit demise…. 
Lightbringer wrote:
I always thought they were synonyms. 
I would love to have a 20k pocketable light even if it is only good for 7 seconds. “Turbo” is not meant to be sustained.
Rexlion wrote: "Yeah, so we can see it coming, right? A well-lit demise…. :) "
I have some lights that have lots of battery capacity and one little teensy eensy weensy led sitting on top of all that battery power. However, due to some kind of off-beat personality profile that is all my fault, I don't feel excited about them. One day, science will develop a pill that will cure me. I will probably take two pills, get very excited about uber practical lights, and destroy my liver. Until then, give me single cell lights with enough multiple emitter power to blast me off to Heaven!
By the way, 444 posts, nice! My fav TC Contender is JD Jones SSK hand Cannon in .444 Marlin, throated long, so the bullet does not take up precious case capacity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.444_Marlin
edit: SKV89 posted when I was posting. His post, diectly above this post: "I would love to have a 20k pocketable light even if it is only good for 7 seconds. “Turbo” is not meant to be sustained." Yes, I agree. Turbo is meant to be there, when need be.
Bbtw: I ordered two of these from my fav modder/supplier. My guess is that he won't be able to boost them.
Hard to say because HL drivers aren’t that good. Maybe even a spring bypass from your fav modder might bump up the output a bit.
so why the need for so much lumens in the blink of an eye ?
You’ll sound like my kids. Just admit it we’re here because we like bright shinny hand held lights. Some of you posting all the critiques are going to buy it anyway. I’ll probably get it and tell my non flashlight cohorts “It’s takes a Tesla battery and produces 13,000 lumens, as much as 10 headlights.” I’ll have it for grins and giggles for awhile then probably sell it to someone who wants it more.
Exactly !
Well said
Personally 10k+ lumens that are as floody as they’ll be from this light isn’t any more impressive than half that number or less.
I’d take the single emitter version of this (DM70 IIRC?) that still is high output and with a MUCH more balanced beam any day.
Plus there are options with similar output, size and much better light quality anyway. I just don’t see the appeal, especially for this price.
MoreLumens said: "I like to have turbo modes when I need to see bigger areas at once in darkness like when camping, exploring caves and fields etc. Usually flooder for those occasions. ..."
That is almost exactly where I am at. I like to use Turbo mode for two seconds, when I need to quickly scan a large area, mostly width, but also some depth. The more raw power the better, to get the width of the area, and also some depth. Being that this is my situation, I want this in the smallest size flashlight possible, because I am only using Turbo for two seconds.
Because I am an enthusiast about this, getting max power flood and some throw from the smallest light for two seconds, to quickly scan an area, from the smallest size flashlight, I have kept up with recent advances in this area for the past five and a half years. My journey, starting October, 2014:
MMU-X3: 1,600 lumens.
MM15, 5,000 L
Meteor XP-L, 7,500 L
TN36UT, 13,400 L
TK75vn quad 70, 16,000 L
X45vn, 25,000 L
Next, recently, I started looking for The Most Powerful Single Cell Light, to do the same thing: Quickly scan large area for two seconds, from the smallest size flashlight:
TM9K, 9,500 L
NSX53, 9,000 L
D4V2vn quad W2, 4,000 L
FW4vn quad W2, 3,850 L
Next, we have this: Single 21700, triple 70.2, 13,000 L, for two second burst to quickly scan the largest area with the smallest size flashlight.
Yes, it has normal modes for normal runtime and normal heat generation, for use that involves longer than two second quick scan.
I have 28 high performance lights, because I like to help support the folks who provide recent advances in things that I like: Very small, small, medium, large and very large dedicated throwers, power throwers, depth flooders and power flooders.
Price/cost? I don't own any "Jewelry" class lights or any USA made custom or semi-custom items or any exotic metals lights, even though I like to look at pics of them, and read posts about them.