New flashlight company: Imalent. Flashlights with display

Because NDT-forbid that every single light have it’s emitter driven to the ragged edge of it’s operating envelope. :smiley:

An emitter’s output is a parabolic curve. As you increase output, it takes more and more energy to get the next lumen. It’s the law of diminishing returns. By using several emitters driven less harshly they can get a higher net efficiency from the torch, thus yielding a longer runtime for a given output setting.

I’m not an electronics expert, but could you even push any kind of real output from three emitters with 4 AA batteries? Even if you could, wouldn’t it be a pathetic run time? I for one like the idea of a decent balance between output and run time from a form factor like this one. Hopefully they aren’t driving them too hard.

Can somebody contact them please!! And try for a groupbuy .

Info@imalent.com

If somebody does, please tell that here, so not 10 people at the same time try to make this happen, which can cause a lot of confusion.

maybe we should ask for retail price first before group buy :quest:

All I can see is the introduction of a point of failure, whoops droped my torch Sh the screens broken, talk about the Iphone of torches, this for me is a definite unnecessary weak point, your paying extra for something less rugged, no way would I ever own one.

I’m assuming this is a capacitive touch screen?

Would be nice if it’s infinitely variable or better yet, runs Android KitKat. :stuck_out_tongue:

Who is going to use that torch anyway? It will just end up on my shelves next to my other shelf queens. ;)

I emailed them 12 hours ago about a group buy for the DD4R.

Ok.. great.. now waiting for their reply..

Not Xm-l2's, XP-G. Blame a bad ebay description.

Two members of a german flashlightforum ordered a T4A. If one post a review or show some nice pictures, I will post the link in this thread, too.

I was wondering this same thing myself. I’ll have to wait for a proper test of this light before purchasing.

Yeah…that’s great and all…but can it get YouTube?

I’m with fartybum, it just seems a little too gimmiky to me, kind of cool to show off and a bit startrek looking but not something I’d like to use, anyone used a touch screen phone in the rain? it soon ends up in your pocket as the screen gets confused.

Ha, where I live, I have to go out of my way to hike in the rain. Out of thousands of backpacking miles, I've hiked fewer hours in the rain than I can count on both hands, and half of that is because I went out of the way to get the experience. The chance of me hiking in the rain while needing to use a flashlight is about as likely as a zombie apocalypse. I definitely wouldn't bring a light that huge out on long backpacking trips, and if I brought it on shorter trips or car camping, I'd probably have a couple other lights as backups. If that button on the other side controls on/off, then the light is good enough (on paper) for what I'd use a light that size for.

I live in England…….the chances of me NOT using a light in the rain are pretty slim tbh lol

I was just thinking, not being able to use a light in the rain is a dealbreaker.

Modern phones use a capacitive multi-touch type touchscreen. The lights almost certainly use a old-style resistive touch screen… immune to wet screens and don’t require bare skin to activate.

FWIW, there are capacitive touch controllers that are not affected by water. It’s anyone’s guess if this light is using one of them though.

Anyone care to take a gamble one way or another? I must say I don’t find it much of a hardship to, well y’know, just press a dammed clicky switch……