Imalent lights were never practical. They are designed to please the ones who on their second week of being into flashlights want to get the absolute highest lumens per size, so they buy it thinking it is the best out there. And then later they realize that UI, build quality and reliability are also important.
"Compact", to me, is any flashlight that has head diameter not larger than body diameter. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This item is kind of sort of cute, like a Pug or a Boxer. I like variety. I just ordered a pencil beam thrower because it throws kind of sort of more than the 2,500 meter pencil beam thrower that I already have. This item probably will do 18,000 up front lumens, but not for a long time. Not for a long time performance is how I categorize flashlight performance.
I like the rifle cartridge analogy. I like long barrel .338 Win Mag and short barrel .458 Win Mag, even they are for two extremely diametric opposite ranges. This item may have less throw than the X45vn boosted 25,000 lumen light that I love so much, but it will be the successor to my 10,000 lumen TM06S vn 4 x XHP50.2 that I think is so cute due to its pure cylindrical aspect ratio. As soon as I see complete specs, I will decide if I will order two or only one of these highly controversial items to supplement and complement my highly controversial Imalent MS18, highly controversial R90TS and two highly controversial MS03 that add oodles of verve, panache and elan to my oppressed life on the hostile surface of this overrated planet.
Just wondering, how much current would each battery need to provide to get the “25000” lumens?
(Just theoretical math computation: assuming 25000 lumen divided by 3 batteries = each battery needs to power 2x XHP70.2 LEDs to 8333 lumens or 4167 lumens per LED.
To reach 4167 lumens per XHP70.2 requires ??? amount of current. Each of the 21700 battery will need to provide twice that amount of current).
Also wondering, would 3x 21700 (assuming 3x Samsung 30T) provide more power (max current) than 4x 18650 (assuming Sony VTC5A, VTC5D, VTC6A)?
The imalent ms03 runs on 1 (proprietary) cell and does almost 13K Lumens. It does plummet down very fast, but at startup it pulls 30A from the Imalent cell!
I have 7 Imalents and haven’t notice any problem with quality or realiability.
Maybe because they sit on shelves. And still haven’t lighted all of them.
I have three more on order. And now I must have this soda can. To shelf it.
More interesing here is the boost driver which power that beast. Is is difficult to drive one XHP70.2 with high currents so more interesting is how Imalent is achieved that high power here.
“flashlight can be quickly charged with the three included 4000 mAh 21700 Li-ion power batteries via the magnetical USB port.”
Wonder what “magnetical” means in this context?
Perhaps a Tactical-Magnetic?
Or perhaps Magneto’s powers magical power source?
This is the first (as far as I know) 3x21700 light.
Be interesting how it feels vs a 4x18650. Which I fine a little too thick for comfort.
I like the SP36 with 3x18650s size better.
One of these days someone is going to scallop out all that metal between the cell bays and make a really nifty light.
That weighs less and has great grip.
All the Best,
Jeff