Imalent DX80 32000 lumen monster

I thought about the same thing.
However, I think that it is low quality if it changes with the input voltage though it is a switching power supply.
Considering the manual specification and unnatural packing, At first was not planning to put in an AC adapter,but feel the possibility that wanted to enter later.
If this is the case, it is a haphazard imalent :confounded:

Thank you :slight_smile: It was very helpful.
DX80 charging circuit, design may be good.
The attached AC adapter was about 40℃.But it broke down :confounded:

Fine charging so far in the Uk, apart from a plastic cap blunder

Now I can stop laughing at myself and laugh at you. :innocent:

Well, it doesn’t.

What it does, is allow me to infer what the supplied charger charges at.
When I first got mine, while the supplied charger was still working, I measured the open circuit voltage. It was 19.5V
From my test we now know what the light will draw at all input voltages between 18.5-20.5V. Never does it exceed 2.0A, the supposed rating of the wall wart.
Therefore I can also infer that the problem with the chargers blowing, is not the light drawing more than the rated capacity of the charger, but rather the supplied charger is a piece of JUNK.
After all the other things that went wrong, they chose an off the shelf charger, probably giving no thought to it’s quality or suitability.

Feel free to remove this comment but does anyone else find it hard to time the double press for Turbo?

If it is easy to change modes with a single click with no problems, then I would say the switch makes good contact with each press.
Maybe a double click requires timing. I know a double click brings you straight to Turbo. Did you know a triple click brings up the volt meter?
How does the triple click work for you?

Is anyone else experiencing this. It dissipates after a few minutes with the light off.

Shows up after running the light on high for a min or so.

Great info. So it could theoretically work with a 18.5V adapter I have.

My TK75 gets that, it’s because it was put together in a humid environment, it’s ugly but I don’t think it affects the output much or at all.

I had already cut the plug off my blown charger because I don’t need a replacement.
My curiosity got the better of me, so tonight I popped the housing off the wall wart to see what happened when it blew.

Earlier I called this charger a piece of junk, but I must say it looks pretty sophisticated.

This is the output end of the board.

Those 2 red wires lead to the 120VAC plug. I take it N and L stand for Neutral and Line.

Here is the evidence off what caused the failure. Those 3 leads all in a row belong to a heat sinked semiconductor on the other side.
It looks like that part got so hot that the solder melted. It looks as though it may have flowed into that resistor.
Also, above it R10, R9 and R8 over heated.

This is the semicon that over heated, but there is a big capacitor blocking the part number.

So I removed it. I looked it up, a 5N60C is a 600V MOSFET.

That capacitor I removed is rated at 400V.

After looking at the board some more, I’m not as sure that solder melted. It may be just the resistors that are bad.
All three are in parallel, which means that they did that to increase the wattage of the resistance called for in the design.

So it blew at the 120VAC end of the circuit, not the 19V end. Not what I was expecting to see.

Now I wish I could get a look at one before it blew.

Yeah, mine did that the first time I used it. I think by now that humidity has been baked out of it.

Okay good to know.

Pulled mine apart as well, exact same issue. Mine doesn’t look quite as burnt as yours.

Triple click works maybe 1 out of 10 times. I guess it’s just getting used to the timing.

Impressive light though, I recorded 32,000 lumens based on my X45 being 14,900. They have very very close beam patterns. Similar spill width and similar yellowish beam area. It didn’t seem to out throw my DT70 but there’s a lot of light pollution blocking your far vision from the DX80.

I filmed a ton last night in 4K and if the light hit any reflective or white objects it caused huge blurring on my video. To the eye the sheer brightness hitting the atmosphere causes a huge blue hue in the air. I had to manually step the camera down for the first time ever!

It warms up slowly considering but also cools down slowly.

My biggest issue is the light is very top heavy and the handle smooth as hell, the light is like trying to hold a ferret.

All my 8,000+ lumen lights do it if the weather is cool.

I haven’t found any issues with the timing to change modes, access voltage parameters and turbo mode. I also find it is strange you think it is top heavy as holding it normally seems to be right in the centre of gravity. I was also feeling that it would be a little slippery without deep grooves but I found it to be fine. I actually loved everything about it until the electronics went poof. Replacement should be shipped today or on Monday.

OK, everyone following this thread KNOWS this light has 8!, XHP-70-2’s. Many have a light with just a single one of those in it and has seen just how bright that emitter is. Fewer still may have a light with 3 or 4 and know how bright those lights are.
Here are some screen shots from a video I shot. Each picture does not represent how bright each light shown really is. In real life all of these lights are brighter than these screen grabs show.
In fact, the light shining backward reflecting off the white stripe in the road actually hurt my eyes when I shot the DX80.
4 screen grabs.
First, 2 cars as they passed on the road. They probably had their low beams on.
Second, and HD2010 with an XM-L2 on copper. FET mod, spring mod and a Samsung 20R
Third, 6xXM-L2, no copper with FET and spring mod. 18A total draw.
Fourth, stock DX80 32000 lumen.

Notice the 2 landscape lights on the left, and their apparent brightness in each shot.


YEA!! That’s what I’m talkin about!

Remember to add a space before the end qoute so the picture shows.

Yea thanks.

The camera was on a tripod and about 6 feet off the ground. The bottom of the picture shows a spot in the road and grass that is about 25 feet away. What these shots do not show is the tremendous amount of spill between the tripod and the bottom of the picture

Just unreal. Thats why I love high output flooders. Now with the DX80, the output is so high there is a good amount of throw just from the beastly lumen output. From the different sources I have heard, we’re talking 120-140kcd. That is just awesome for a floodlight. If this light is reliable long term, it will be a huge success.