Acebeam E70-AL mini-review

RC, how do you find the beam profile outdoors? For me, the XHP70 is extremely floody. I have a ZL SC700d, which uses a larger reflector with its XHP70. For me, that seems about as floody as I would want the beam profile in order for it to be useful outdoors.

Aesthetically, the light is super appealing. If it were me, though, I’d do the Ti version, but with 14500 and something more reasonable for the LED (SFT40 or SST20) or aluminum in 18650 with, again, something a lot throwier than XHP70. The reason I suggest Ti in 14500 is both cost and heat - Titanium lights generally can’t even handle 18650-tier heat outputs, I don’t know who they’re kidding driving an XHP70 hard in a Ti light.

Is it regulated? Got enough DD lights. Holly molly, Amazon wants 95 bucks. No thanks.

Acebeam wants 75ish and if you poke around BLF there’s 10% codes to be had.

I'm not sure, but it seems pretty floody.

Nice review, thanks.

For some reason this light seems too big in my opinion.

I think it's a reasonably compact 21700 flashlight.

If that's too big, and maybe it is, then stick to compact 18650 flashlights.

… and a blatant affiliate link to Acebeam :wink:

Can you put it up against a wall and measure the angle please?

I'm not going to do that, but maybe someone else will.

FET drivers have high initial output, heat and battery drain. Brightness drops steadily as the battery drains. Regulated lights put out a constant brightness until the battery voltage drops to about 3.7 volts on high and then usually steps down to a constant medium level until about 2.8 or 3 volts.

Most regulated lights will still have thermal regulation though, so only put out a constant brightness after thermal regulation has balanced.

This is a nice light. It’s like 20x better than a convoy. Worth the money IMHO.

I think I’ll get one. Similar performance to the Convoy M21C/D, more compact, and looks amazing.

It’s a boost driver. 6V for XHP70.2; 12V for GT-FC40.

Ah yes, XHP70.2 6volt. How’d I miss that. Thanks.

Stephenk, the hotspot is 23.7° and the spill is 84.9°

Thanks, LuxWad!

I'm glad you figured it out.

Thanks for the info. I’ve ordered one. Sustained brightness for size is very impressive.

I love this light!

I really like your review style RC!

Short and to the point and if i didnt own it this would be the review id want to read. I dont need 2,000 words when 200 will do!

I have aluminum gt fc40 3000k and a Stainless Steel xhp70 4000k. and i love them both equally.

There was a post on reddit to the effect that acebeam were working on a smaller form factor of the E70