Grizzly’s Acebeam X50 CRI Review – Brightest High CRI Flashlight Available
Thanks for the review. Was hoping that the sustained brightness would be better, it’s only around 40% of the XHP70.2 version sustained lumens. Still very impressive though!
Glad you liked the review! I had hoped for higher sustained output as well, but 2000 lumens seems about right to me considering the low efficiency of the emitters compared to the XHP70.2 version.
Two E70-AL 95CRI could do 1,800lm sustained, thought that would be pretty toasty!
This light 
There wouldn’t be battery pack I’d already have it 
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If I can, I would be married with GT-FC40 O_0
Thanks for the rewiew, very helpfull.
I was thinking more XHP 70.2 beam profil, visibly less hotspot and more spill with better repartition (not all lumens at feet compare to 70.2/50.2), near a perfection for my use.
However thermal design 
X45 is for me clearly better, X45 V3 with GT-FC40 would be also interrest to see, 8 ermitter for 2000 lumens sustained compare to 4.
So it does 2 point negative.
I was really hesitant to buy it despite that before the Niwalker ES3 and now i’m less sad not to have it.
I’ve found a perfect CRI complementary duo MF01S 4000K/ES3 4000K with 2-3 18650 set batteries and 8-10 21700 for an half price of X50 battery pack.
She still makes me want, but much less
For the consumer market, battery packs are the way to go now. You don’t see power tools with multiple batteries, they come with a battery pack containing multiple batteries. Flashlight enthusiasts might not like them, but it is where things are heading for multi battery lights.
They’re an evil born of consumer ignorance, corporate greed, and bad laws. They aren’t the “way to go” just because things are trending that way.
Battery packs do have the advantage of lower resistance, but I prefer replaceable batteries myself.
You are forgetting the safety aspect. If you were a manufacturer, would you rather provide a battery pack with no risks of user stupidity, or seperate batteries that allows the user to insert with reverse polarity and/or different voltage levels. I know which one I would go for!
I’m not forgetting the safety aspect. Products shouldn’t be idiot-proof at the expense of destroying the environment. Creating products with planned obsolescence and blaming it on stupid consumers is the coward’s way out. But I mentioned bad laws because I think it is financially safer for companies to take this approach right now and that should not be the case.
For safety all brand sell and make only protected cell fit inside their light O_0
Imalent do that for they MS serie’s
No worry about cell pack i’ve lot of Einhell tool(and it’s a real joy to carry my electric chainsaw compared to the thermal or my water pump :D).
This cells pack is very close 50Wh around 40-55$ battery pack, you can see screw you can open and change cells easily.
Nitecore have same price but for that 98Wh
And it’s an option all light can run with classical cell (protected of course).
Acebeam is 44Wh pack.
For me it’s nearly impossible to defend Acebeam with this 150$ cells pack.
At a time you have to choose, if the goal is to earn a maximum of money with the cells pack, the light will be around 200$ no 350$, for me, or 70$ extra cells pack
Also i’ve no issu with built-in cell or proprietary (with a price moderate 100$ and 600$ it’s not the same thing) for maybe this brings something special.
In the case of X50 it’s “only” a High CRI light in a not crazy host, acebeam can, and have, do really better job in host efficiency for <300$ light with no cell pack needed
500$ with only one xtra cell pack are suffisant for temper my enthusiasm.
A fandle and better job on thermal host, for 500$, I bought 
Price often does not correlate with the actual cost but with how much the customer is willing to pay. This is capitalism after all.
Non-Serviceable battery packs can still be a valid option if the they can be properly recycled and if recycling acutally happens in that particular country. If the tool is not used heavily on a daily base those batteries can have a rather long service life.
Replaceable cells in borderline high drain situations pose a very real risk. Maybe not for enthusiast users, but for joe average.
Do not forget recycling is not equal no pollution/ecology.
If cells pack is recycling, they have a power cost<CO2 emission and potentially a pollution cost< toxic waste.
The recycling is not a permission to make everything it’s only a solution to save raw material.
Recycling is also not effective at 100% micro-chip, resistance,condenser or not re-use after the life of cells pack and raw material reach too high cost to be recuperat, potentially Lithium inside cell not re use too, only plastic can be re-used…
On this case te recycling is only limited to drop this waste anywhere.
Recycling product can egal or worst on CO2 emission compare to raw material 
This has a cost for the society, recycling not being paid by Acebeam, not by Joe but by us.
Not to mention the fact that Joe can throw it in the classical trash like a big asshole
So we can add a big “0 eco friendly” product for Acebeam
Edit:
I don’t found why is the warranty for this cell pack? classical 1-2 years or 5 ?
I had noticed Olight, which brings Acebeam closer, warranty 5 years the built-in cell on his Maraudeur 2 and the light 5 years too.
Acebeam does too in the X80 for example, but the current draw per cell in the X50 is much higher than what individual protection circuits in protected cells would support.
We are ok, but what is the utility finally, other marketing?
You can put V10 or more powerfull V16 motors on Fiat 500, you have always a car who crash a first turn.
That don’t change the consumer choice, I can want less power but use separate cell, i dont want most powerfull light, just high CRI light with decent output.
Edit: I blame no one, no educated user want more and more power, Producter just want sell and don’t want educate their consumer.
It’s the snake that bites his tail, and we get this situation
The consumer market is MUCH larger than the enthusiast market. For every person that knows proper handling of Li-ion cells, there are ten thousand that don’t. Expecting Acebeam to educate the world is unrealistic. Protecting themselves from liability of ignorant people blowing themselves up is completely reasonable.
I find it incredible how it is possible to defend a regression
10 years ago lot of systeme are in the market for the simp consumer made a mistake; button top cell come with a receiver inside carrier for physicaly impossible reverse…
The stupidy of actual people is not a apologize to make this regression.
Educate the world, off course no it’s obvious, but make user manual, sticker on the carrier and special form on/of cells carrier for physically lock reverse possibility, it’s possible. And the consumer is educate, the cells have a polarity, reverse polarity is dangerous and if they are pretty simp if they reverse polarity just no function…
It’s very simple to hide behind the stupidity of the client if have done absolutely nothing to increase their knowledge.
For me a brand was superior if they take their consumer with respect and not for a monkey with dollars in pocket who sold a banana and ran away after that
I’m sorry to have possibly diverted the debate from the tactical_grizzly rewiew and discussion about this light.
The light is amazing, the Acebeam simp-proof is ridiculous and very expensive, no more to say about that