Olight SR52UT Intimidator review (1100 lm,XP-L HI CW,3x18650/6xCR123A)

LED Flashlights – General Info 18650 Flashlights
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Hello,
Today’s review will be dedicated to a new thrower from Olight, the SR52UT Intimidator. It is not a completely new model, but this one uses XP-L HI LED, that allows it to reach an impressive 800 meters of throw and 160kcd. As well as being an impressive thrower, the flashlight also features a built in battery charger.


A comparison of the new and the older model. Please note that in order to reach a 27 percent further throw, light intensity had to be increased by 90% !

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Shall we begin?+


As well as other big Olight flashlight, SR52UT comes in a big plastic case. You can get most specifications of the flashlight just by looking at the case. There is a special note regarding XP-L HI LED being used in this flashlight.






The flashlight comes bundled with a holster, a car adapter, Micro-USB cable, 2 spare o-rings, warranty, user manual and a commercial of different new Olight models.
Please note that the flashlight has two options, in one of them it comes with 3 rechargeable batteries, this was not the case with my sample.



Here it is. It is very solid flashlight, and sits in hand really well, because of it’s size and knurling. The button is big and feels really nice, and has Olight logo on it.


Here is a close-up of that button, and the description of the UI.
As you can see it’s not too difficult. Just one note, you need to be really quick with the double pressing of the button in order to get to strobe mode.



Here is the XP-L HI. Looks really well. No quality fault were found under the bezel in form of dust, fingerprints or un-centered LED. As you can see there is a anti-reflective coating.


Here is the charging socket. I have some observations regarding the charging socket.

1. It has to be closed prior to submersion. It may be obvious for some and not to others. There are flashlight that can be submerged without closing any sockets as well.
2. While charging a red LED is lit, and while charged it turns green (obvious).
3. While charging the flashlight drew 0.86A. It means it will take a while to charge 3 18650 batteries (the manual says it should take 10 hours).
4. A pleasant (and unexpected) surprise. The flashlight works without batteries. What??? The flashlight can be powered from the USB socket, without any batteries on and even with open tailcap. It has two modes in that state, pretty bright too. It draws 0.18 and 0.66 A when powered by USB. The user manual does not mention that feature.




Here is the hi-tech bezel. Looks really well, as part of some modern electronic device. The cells are connected in parallel, all leads are interconnected (I checked with DMM).


The threads are square-cut and anodized.
The flashlight can be powered by two or even one battery (because of the parallel connection).



Here is the flashlight in my medium-small hand and near other objects.


The light itself is very nice. A very even hotspot without any rings or other artifacts, one of the nicest I saw.








800 meters? I easily believe that claim. As I stated before, a really even cold hotspot and even some spill.
There is a GITD o-ring that lights in green for a while after you turn off the flashlight. Well, it’s not the strongest feature of the flashlight :slight_smile:

Some numbers

[TABLE]Flashlight/Mode Ultralow Low Mid Turbo
Olight SR52UT 12000 56000 130000
Olight M3XS-UT 500 13000 80000 55000 (2M)
Olight M23 - 1560 15000 37000
Olight M2X-UT - 3000 33000 110000
Supbeam (ACEBEAM) K50 V2 52 - 53500 110000
[/TABLE]

No surprises here, a thrower is a thrower.


Here are stabilization graphs. No step-down of any kind, very nice.

Conclusion,final words

A great light, even with some surprises. If you don’t need a built-in charger and/or need a more compact flashlight, Olight has a lot of other offers as well.

I’d like to thank Olight for providing me the review sample
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Thanks for reading. Comments? Requests? Contact me, I will be happy to assist.

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Thank you for the nice review. Impressive beam shots.

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I am glad you liked it.

There is a coupon for this light at gearbest.com now, with the coupon the price is 82.59$ . Coupon code : SR52UTGB .

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nice review.

i wonder how is this compared to k60 or k40m

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thank you.
I had K40M. I like Olight better. It is more compact, and has more throw.

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your review specially your beam shots makes me want to buy this light :heart_eyes:

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good review!

if one likes banggood more and wants to save a few bucks also he can PM me :wink:

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some “insert name of bodypart which may not named here…“ told olight about the codes
(banggoods and maybe also gearbests)

so no one won. :expressionless:
you save no money
olight has less sales

thank you !

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Love it!

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Beware the stupid policy of minimun sale price.

The best solution is that the seller, final price and coupon is requested via PM.

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What’s in it for these Rat Finks?

Do they get a free light from the “Olight Map Police” for telling on the rest of us?

I just don’t get it :frowning:

-Chuck

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already too late :frowning:

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I' ll never understand such dirtbags!! :-/ Is it a psychological problem they have!??

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Yes… “The code you entered has expired.”

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Nice, man. Your neighbors must love you. :bigsmile:

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What, you mean the code no longer works.

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Nice light, but the sale code is void now?

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Please don't buy or use Ultrafire cells (especially in a multi-cell light). They're dangerous, poor-performing, junk.

Top it off that the odds of getting 3 Ultrafire cells that match are very low. Pretty well impossible to match an old pair with a 'new' junk cell.

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In other words, you’re married? :smiley:

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Did you delete your entire post? I thought it had good info in it, except for the part about the Ultrafire cells...

You've got a very nice $100 flashlight, but you've filled it with 10 cents worth of cells that will likely make it perform like a $10 flashlight.

It's something like buying a Ferrari and fueling it with sub-unleaded that has a fair chance to catch fire and/or explode at some point in the future.

Or buying one of those new fangled Hoverboards for $150 with an 80% failure rate.

Just save up a little more and spend $3 (unprotected) or $6 (protected) per genuine, quality cell.