Olight X7 Marauder measurements (3x XHP70, 4x 18650)

Still, you can melt styrofoam with the head… so don’t leave the light unattended on Turbo S. Glad my runtime box started smelling bad.

This happened in under 2 minutes.

Ouch

How does 55 minutes above 4000 lumens sound? That’s what it does as long as there’s some airflow. Haven’t measured uncooled yet.

That’s some serious performance. Nice to see the well defined temperature difference between the head and the battery tube due to the threads. This also indicates how well an integrated shelf transfers heat compared to a screw in pill. Nice video!

Very nice. This bad boy is on my list!

~8-9k for 5m30s is pretty dang spectacular as well.

Impressive performance!

And I’m also surprised that it only costs $199…

That thermal video is seriously cool!

I have to get this!

What kind of maximum output do you get with half depleted cells? In the Youtube video, you mention in the comments that you need full cells to get turbo S. Thanks.

That was a message that Olight sent me. I’ll test the output with half depleted batteries tommorow, thanks for the suggestion.

Hi Maukka,

Thanks for the great review.

What’s the length of the provided protected cells? Do you have any protected NCR18650B or GA, such as by keeppower, which you can try for a fit?

The bundled protected 35E batteries are 68.9mm long. Other long ones such as Keeppowers work fine, even my 69.2mm long Keeppower 3500mAhs. Only have one 69.6mm protected 18650B, so couldn’t test those, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a problem.

Thanks Maukka. I ordered a Noctigon meteor, do you think I should be regretting my decision now? :exclamation:

The Meteor is amazing, there’s no reason to regret ordering it.

^ Different beasts. The X7 has more raw power, but the Noctigon is more compact and packs lot more functions.

Here’s runtime on turbo s with ~50% depleted batteries, charged to 3.9V. Total lumen-hours are about half.

So yes, 9000 lumens needs a high battery voltage. This also means that batteries that cannot sustain high voltage under high load, can’t provide the max output, just like Olight said.

Wow,

Thank you very much. This is very useful information to me; pretty turned off by this kind of behaviour from lights… So this means that the 9000 lumens are achieved with fully charged protected Olight 3500 (35E) right? So what will happen if you have fully charged 30Qs; would this result in a higher initial output?
Thanks again for your work!

No difference in output between the 18650s I tested.

From the review:

Thanks for all the testing maukka. If you dont mind, could you do a similar 3.9v test with noctigon? Thats supposed to have a buck boost driver.