List of Actively Cooled Lights

No load whatsoever on the internal battery of the light!

i agree, i never consider it as Profession light, 3d printed part, CPU heatsink, lol, looklike a DIY light to me

No info about included cooling fan though.

Don’t forget that we bought MF-01 with a coupon at a low enough price,while Olight does not permit this policy.The same as the other first rate companies.So,Astrolux is going to be a must for us in a budget. :slight_smile:

Great thread, thanks for starting, subbed…

He said they have scrapped the idea of using a fan. It’s just a regular finned style light now. They added some fancy electronics that show the brightness and battery level through the use of leds on either side of the button.

So,let’s stay with my DX80.X9 is a good light but not for me at $499.00.

One thing about Olight is that all their lights have a 5 year warranty, so obviously a lot of money and effort has gone into QC. Does that warrant their hefty price tags? I guess that depends a lot on the intended use - for emergency services, military etc., having a tool that will work when it’s most needed can make the difference between life and death.

Agreed 100%.

Great list. Surprised that there are already a couple of lights with active cooling. I knew about the luxrc FBI light. But the others where new. Too bad olight dropped the fan on there x9 model.

Is there any more information available about the ms2010 light?

I’m working on a design that uses active cooling. It brings a lot of challenges, especially if you want it to keep it compact.

Oh lordy. I was reading this thread in all seriousness then hit that post. LOL

Makes sense, in something as small as a flashlight you get more heat dissipation by adding more fins rather than using up space for a fan.

What market do you think they are targeting for these things?

No, it’s an old model that used to be sold on Aliexpress, but it’s long gone now.

(Are you trolling me again? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt)

No, active cooling is still superior to passive. That should be obvious. Olight had other reasons for scraping it. It’s very complicated for one thing, plus with their 5 year warranty they probably realized that if they had to replace that fan more than once or twice they would lose more money than they wanted. Reliability is much higher without it. That would be my main guess for why they dropped it.

PowerTac 10K

Expensive @ $600. However, on Battery Junction and PowerTac’s own site, High is listed as 10,500 lumens for 1.7Hrs! I suppose there’s still some sort of stepdown, as I’d think that even with a fan it would be hard to keep cool enough on a 90F+ summer night. As some have mentioned before, the primary customers of this light would most likely be SAR teams.
PowerTac X10000

Interesting. I’ll add it to post #1.

It’s for people who need high output for long times. The MF01 for instance can do 12k lumen, but only for a few minutes. I can’t remember what it’s top sustained output is, maybe 3k to 4k lumen?

The top dog, I believe, at the moment is the giant Acebeam X65, which can do a sustained 6,000 lumen with no active cooling. That’s impressive, but it’s pricey at $574.

That’s currently the limit for non fan cooled sustained output.

For those folks that do search and rescue or police, you might need a brighter light that can work continuously and the higher cost is not a big issue. You pretty much have to go to active/fan cooling.

The Powertac X10K can do 10,000 lumen for 1.7 hours. That’s pretty impressive.

It’s not for the average person. It’s a small market, but it exists.

I just looked at the Acebeam Specs and it says it can do 120 minutes at 6000 lumens. DX80 specs say 13,000 lumens for 8 minutes and then stepping down to 7000 lumens for 120 mintues, so wouldn't the DX80 be rated higher the the X65?

Can the DX80 really do a sustained 7k lumen? I haven’t seen anyone test that yet.

I know that when Maukka tested the X65 it did about 6300 lumen with a fan circulating room temperature air and about 5300 lumen with no fan. Just still air.

If I can find some tests of the DX80’s sustained output I will post it here.

I'd be interested too. I was testing the DX80 in turbo today at -5C which is 23F and ran it for 90 second and it barely even got warm. Canadian temps do wonders for the this flashlight