This is what worries me. Where is the heat going? I guess we will find out as more reviews are done.
JasonWW do u think it can be a problem that the light would somehow keep too much heat inside then it lets out? U sound worried hehe… all i know they took forever design that light without the fan but like u said they cant go above laws of physics lol…
someone should send u a review unit!
It’s quite possible it’s throttling down instead of holding full power or maybe it’s producing well less than the rated specs. This is usually the case when a light does not get hot.
Being Olight, I hope this is not the case. They may just have a lot of heatsink mass so it takes longer to get hot and then the thermal sensors reduce output early to prevent the exterior from getting too hot.
They might be able to increase the turbo run time by raising the thermal limit. Get an extra 30 seconds before stepping down. Some folks might want that.
Anyway, we’ll just have to wait for some reviews to see what it’s doing.
So i asume u wont be buying one then?
I have zero use for it.
Sometimes, you just gotta say no to the hype impulse.
The X9R failed a simple water submersion test.
A couple minutes under water and the entire light was filled with water.
How is that possible? They showed a video where they submerge the light in their testing video of the light ? 
I hope it was more like the tailcap wasnt fully tight or the flap for the charging hole…
I’m really surprised, I clearly remember seeing an immersion test tank in the same lab as their integrating sphere when Marshall from Going Gear visited them…
I don’t see them slapping an IPXX sticker on a 600 bucks light without testing it before :zipper_mouth_face:
I could put mine in the bathtub and try but i sure as hell not gonna do that with a 600$light… yea exactly @X3
Did it?
There is a very big difference between going “dead” and just turning off. It’s okay acceptable by the vast majority of users for the light to turn off after a drop as long as it can be turned back on. Can you please tell us if the light was damaged or if it could be turned back on?
How is it OK if the light turns off after a small drop?
If the X9R was dropped or banged during a police raid, rescue operation or caving expedition and went dead (or turned off), lives could be put at risk.
A small drop caused it to go “black”. To me, that means it failed.
I didn’t say it was okay, just normal.
The difference is being able to pick it up and keep using it or having to ship it back to Olight for repairs. That’s a big difference.
So I think your opinion about it turning off in a drop being a fail of the test is in the minority. (Still a valid opinion if your standards are super high)
So many lights do that due to the battery springs compressing and briefly loosing contact turning them off. It’s kind of normal. I think if the light still works, the majority of people would say that test is a pass.
Drop test means that light should survive so u can press it on again once u pick it up, if it turns off the second it hits the floor isnt a big deal - if the light after doesnt turn on then you got one hell of a problem.
Ive seen videos of R50 drop from a bridge lol, it got some scratches but turned on after just fine, but i asume this light since so heavy wouldnt survive a big fall like that but who knows…
When you said “it’s okay” I didn’t know you meant it’s normal.
My apologies.
I altered my original statement to be more clear.
Everyone has their own standards. Like for me, I don’t care if any of my lights are waterproof at all. I don’t use them in the rain or around water. So I don’t care about IPX-6 or 7 or 8, etc…
Everyone is different. :+1:
I could not say without looking at the inside of the battery pack and how the pack connects to the head.
Finding pictures of the internal workings of a flashlight battery pack is a lot harder than you think. I’ve seen a few, but none were from Olight. I guess people usually return a defective Olight battery pack under warranty instead of cracking it open to try and fix it themselves.
Has anyone seen pictures of how the pack connects to the head? I guess you would need to photograph down the battery tube?
Here is how it looks inside the head and battery connection.
Okay, so a minimal amount of springyness on the connectors.
Does it have any type of spring or cushion on the tail cap or is it battery pack to metal cap?
no cushion tailcap is empty more or less like on the astrolux lights etc , the small metal in the middle on the battery is what looks to made all the connection once inside the tube.
I tell u tho, it stinks like hell inside the tube, weird chemical smell or something really weird never smelled anything like that before haha…