The MS18 and Imalent are getting trolled I agree. Is it out of line though?
The thread is dedicated to their two new lights. There’ll be some discussion on how they work, how their new cooling system works which there is. The majority of the discussion however will be peoples opnions and potential buyers voicing either their concern or their support.
I swore to myself that once somebody came out with a flashlight that broke the 100k lumen barrier I would buy one. I hoped that 2019 would be the year and based on previous drops X70 & MS12 I expected around Nov 2019 we would get the next versions which may or may not reach 100k lumens. Two months into 2019 its announced that Imalent has done it.
The skepticism is well founded and aside from the straight up bashing that can happen it’s very relevant when I’m considering a small used boat motor or a flashlight because the price in CAD will be well over $700.
I dug up the actual figures on lumens as they’re very relevant:
DX80 stated 32,000 tested 25,401 difference 6,599 overstated by 26%
R90C stated 20,000 tested 15,207 difference 4,793 overstated by 32%
MS12 stated 53,000 tested 38,952 difference 14,048 overstated by 36%
everybody overstates but by comparison Acebeam is much closer:
X70 stated 60,000 tested 49,691 difference 10,309 overstated by 21%
If we look at the way Imalent is gradually increasing the percentage they’re overstating their lights it suggests that the MS18 will very likely be overstated by 40%
with 40% predicted overstatement this light would produce 71,400 lumens at turn on
Incase anyone doesn’t understand my math: 38952 is the MS12 output so the difference of 14048 that is added by imalent represents a 36% increase of the actual output 38952