Olight X9 @ 25k Lumen

My guess is that the price will be $400 indeed.

$400 for a 25k lumen olight light sounds too cheap to me.

I think at least $599 if it comes with the battery pack…

I think $200 - $2000 is a safe guess.

Such flashlights are very impressive, but I wonder how many pieces are sold and (as I guess the answer is not many) what’s their profit margin…

Having a big flashlight acting like a small one it is not too attractive, too little juice to enjoy real serious power, even if the temperature is ok.
How many cells are in the X9, 6pcs like in the previous Olight products from the Intimidator series?

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170118/e2b336f4111ce32ee82462ee07aeb9ff.jpg Some more chum for the water.
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https://n2a.goexposoftware.com/events/ss17/goExpo/exhibitor/viewExhibitorProfile.php?\_\_id=110

So USD 400:-
Actually not too bad, given the competition’s pricing.
But it’s gigantic :open_mouth:

$400, dual fans, looks quite a bit different from the one they have on hand though. Man those 6 xhp70’s look really good. :slight_smile:

Anyone have a pic of the bottom of that light? Also, doesn’t look like it has a lanyard attachment. That’s a beast to have to hold for any significant amount of time.

But i can buy 25k lumen lights on ebay for $50 :smiley:

You can buy 30k for 20$, just look again

It would add weight to a light but would it be possible to make one with a water jacket in the head? Like the ww1/ww2 machine gun barrels. Can’t remember how long in between as long as the barrels stayed changed so often they could fire indefinitely. Unless something in the firing mechanism broke. By the time one barrel was to hot the other one would be cooled.

Now we don’t use water cooled but it was effective in the marines the saw gunners had two barrels. And a thick ass cow hide glove to change them. But no one ever changed them during a firefight. Unless they started glowing. You know its hot when the round fires off from the heat alone

Unless you are actively cooling the water, putting water in the head will just insulate it more.

Indeed, but i do have standards :smiley:

Was just curious because the machine gun barrels in water jackets arnt actively cooled. And thousands of rounds could be shot before a barrel change. But I guess a steel barrel can take a lot more heat few hundred degrees more then a flashlight can so that makes sense

Maybe they were just using water as to collect the heat due to it’s high head capacity.
You would need many litres of water though…
Definitely not possible for a small flashlight like this.

I’m in if it comes with a clip that lets it fit almost completely in a pocket.

Way off topic but you’ll are wondering. A few years ago went to a machine gun shoot at Tiger Valley gun range in Waco Tx. One of the collectors had Model 1910 Maxim Water Cooled Machine Gun. He used a little radiator fluid and lots of water. Belts are 200 rounds long made of canvas with brads. In 7.62x54r hr fired belt after belt, cyclic rate was rather slow. After awhile with the water cap open you could see boiling water erupt out. He’d pour another bottle of water in. Around 0:12 in you can hear the guns slow cyclic rate chugging along Tannerite vs Nissan - YouTube So it cools with lots of water mass. Properly working they are attached to a water can that pulls water into the jacket.

Interesting video, I have wanted to go to that shoot for some time.

The reason the water cooling works on that gun is not the water itself but the phase change that turns it into steam.

The phase change takes a LOT of energy which is absorbed heat, the steam then carries the heat away from the barrel.

If the water jacket was sealed, well first it would explode from the steam pressure, but it would also not keep the barrel cool, in fact a large hunk of metal would work better, fins would work even better.

Now you could make a water cooled flashlight and it would keep the light at 212F degrees (or 100C) as long as you kept the water jacket full. But adding water and having steam boiling out of it come with their own set of issues.