Integrated Recharge with a cleverly hidden USB port too. The finger grooves on the side of the tube opposite the switch are interesting. I’m not sure if I’ll like that more than the uniform block knurling on the X7.
If they go for a custom battery they can increase the Wh density by at least 50-60% compared to 18650 cells
Honestly, $400 isn’t too bad considering what you’re getting. Also, nothing else on the market that even comes close to this beast, other than the custom stuff being made on CPF, and what is that 40,000 lumen light selling for anyway? Way more than $400 I’m guessing.
vinh is working on one that will be 70,000 lumens i think
guys unreal
That would be 63lm/$, no >1k lm flashlight does archive this ratio.
I expect it to be $560-760 without cells.
The Olight X7 Marauder does 45lm/$.
Last I heard, Vinh is working on mule XHP70, more than 20 LEDs, in X65 and TK75.
I believe that $400 is the number that the company quoted for that light.
Btw, has anyone heard ANYTHING since SHOT Show about when the X9 will become available for purchase?
Just this…
What? No way. Why would you think that?
Based on what evidence?
It is a bit underwhelming what working on a bit light means for Vinh, bare LEDs with nothing to collect and at least give a mediocre 2candelas per lumen, and just using a couple of BLF direct driver 17mm PCBs hanging by the wires or insulated in kapton take inside the host.
All this hype has finally faded for me, it seems the throw of this thing will be quite small like under 500M. Maybe I will pass, after a while flood gets boring.
LED’s are getting all about lumens & numbers, just add more & more, no wonder it’s cheap. If this thing had a 1600-2000M throw with considerable spill/flood I would be all over it. I remember the days of aircraft landing light mods like LK14 with their amazing wide far throwing beams. I had wished LED’s would go in that direction just further.
I saw vinh’s 40000lumen video & its just like these videos of 50” light bars., too much close range light that is boring.
Still a crazy amount of light, i think this is the realm of enough for a hand held light. They need to work on massive throw.
How about gettin the X7R Marauder (12k lm) for 165 euros, which is 72.3 Lumens per euro?
which translates to 190$ , so thats 63 lm/ $ 
think it was a pretty good deal all in all, right?
That UI, though. I could not live with that.
What do you mean? you don’t like the way in which you click through modes on the X7R?
About price per lumen
Recently many brands have broken the record
Like astrolux mf-01, which is about 12000 lumen/78$, which is about 153 lumen per dollars
Crazy, right 
What’s really crazy is how few seconds you can actually get that light output for.
+1
Exactly. You can’t turn it on to the brightest level. You have to double click, pause, then double click again to get to turbo 2. It’s like a safety nanny. They won’t let the 2 higher levels be memorized. That does not work for me.
I would much prefer an MT03 or MF01. They work better stock. The work super great when upgraded with NarsilM FET drivers. Even upgraded, it’s still cheaper than the X7R.
What will better for MF01 if we upgrade this way?