I saw a post on the candle forum about the imaplent dt70 and dt35 but did not see any post here.
I was too lazy to post. It has been discussed elsewhere briefly though. I am interested in these lights.
The Imalent DN70 looks interesting as well. I’m a fan of the single 26650 powered XHP50/70 lights.
Me too. There is just little choice so far, and the Acebeam and Olight are fairly pricey. Klarus can be had for a lot less, but to me appears mehhh.
A slightly more expensive emitter and a boost driver compared to an XM-L variant; these lights should be much cheaper in my opinion.
DN70 is indeed interesting, and you know what kind of discounts are realistic with Imalent…
Imalent prices (including batteries):
DT70 $290 4xXHP70 16000 lumen
DT35 $245 4xXHP35 HI 8500 lumen
DN70 $110 1xXHP70 3800 lumen
DN35 $105 1xXHP35 HI 2200 lumen
How many watts input must a flashlight have to output 16000lm with triple XHP70?
If 16000lm is the OTF lumen ouput then 18400 bulb lumens are needed. So that means 6130lm per LED, so that is around 10A at 7.5V = 75W*3 = 225W output. Add 8% losses to figure out the input, that is 243W.
But then how can 4*18650 do 243W?
DN70 looks really nice
That’s 60W per cell, divided by about 4V equals 15A. Can be done theoretically, but most likely is not going to happen here. The included cells are 30Q according to Finnish site. I’d be happy if it pumped out 10000 lumens.
Yes, my preferred DN70 !!
The DT70 has 4 XHP-70 LEDs, not 3.
Yeah indeed, the picture was misleading for me due to the angle.
Dangit, there goes my calculation too. But, the efficacy of 4 emitters is higher than 3 emitters, so it’ less than 15A per cell you need…
Anyhow, I don’t think Imalent is even going to deliver 16000 led lumens…
Edit:
FYI, I asked Imalent: DT70 and DT35 have 4P cell configuration.
The difference is not monumental, I mean 243W input or 220W same thing.
But anyway there is not going to be a 4.0V available when the load is anywhere from 10A to15A, more like 3.85V for a minute.
Of course. Just ball park figures; easier to calculate. Just like 3 or 4 emitters, meh, it’s about the same. So the conclusion remains: verrrrry unlikely.
Maybe they really did it like 220W input for 30seconds, then drop to 4000lm (25%) and due to low voltage and rapid high discharge no more 16000lm at all after that (literally impossible).
Since with the new ANSI runtimes that would be totally normal.
It’s certainly possible, it has been achieved by 3x XHP-70 in a smaller host.
Anyway, 9k lm in the palm of your hand is already crazy, I’d love to see what 16k thrown at 120kcd looks like. 
Surely is possible, just for 30sec total possible runtime from 4*18650, after all a pull of 220W from max 40W available (lets not even mention the 2.5V cells)
Besides I am assuming all max efficiency and all, reality may be different.
Also notice on their website, it says:
ANS/NEMA FL1
… instead of ANSI…
4x LEDs and 4x 18650s, it pulls from each cell enough to make 4,000lm.
In theory if the emitter efficiency is 120lm/watt each cell provides 33W, maybe close to 38W after 15% driver losses. This gives ~10A at 3.7V.
At 100lm/watt it should draw ~12A per cell which is entirely possible with high drains.
Of course the above calculation assuming the 4,000lm per XHP-70 is LED lumens and not OTF.
The real problem here is how does the driver deal with 40A+ of input current if the cells are parallel.
Well, the Meteor is also 4P and pulls about 32A…
I think this configuration (4x XHP-70) kicks out ca. 12000 lumen OTF for about one minute and drops down dramatically!! …
It must be tested!! 