https://www.olightstore.com/olight-x9r-marauder/?tracking=5b194223c5d5d
pick one up Friday at $150 off they say
My wife would come unglued. One of yall would have to come to Missouri and save me from the amount of pure evil she wold bestow upon me if that beast arrived at the doorstep. Then when the credit card bill came in I am pretty sure I would be butchered and fed to the hogs.
Do they have like a really long layaway plan. 5 years same as cash or something?
I would not buy it.
At that price, I would just get an Acebeam X70 or just 5 Q8s strapped together
This is another one of those proprietary battery pack lights that I dislike for that reason alone. It seems to me that particular “feature” used to be fairly common in high-end lights, then some manufacturers relented to allow us to use loose 18650s, maybe thinking they could sell more lights that way.
I’m not sure how that worked out for them. If I had a nickel for every complaint I’ve seen trashing some high-spec light when the real problem turned out to be the craptacular batteries someone put in it, I’d be writing this from my yacht on the French Riviera.
Olight probably thought a return to a tightly spec’d, in-house controlled proprietary pack was necessary in this obviously demanding light to avoid those type of problems/variables (that and the relatively recent maturity/availability of miniature, inexpensive in-pack cell balancing charge circuitry).
I am an Olight fan, but for now I’ll just have keep getting by with my two X7 Marauders…
Just so u know they are gonna sell battery packs lose as u can take those out unlike x7r u cant i guess they learned lesson.
Same… i almost ordered one for $450. I realized my mt09r can do the same thing for half of the cost.,
Yeah, saw that and searched to see what a spare pack sold for but couldn’t find a specific listing anywhere as the light is still too new. An “unofficial source” said somewhere around $150, which although not totally unreasonable, is more than I’d care to spend for a 14.4V 6000 mAh pack.
I guess I’ve been spoiled by my “18V” 9000 mAh Milwaukee battery packs. I picked up my last true Milwaukee branded one for around $120, and am currently considering trying one of the ~$85 3rd party replacement packs. Although I use them primarily to power Milwaukee M18 FUEL (brushless) power tools, with a Milwaukee M18 USB adapter, they make make for some impressive long lasting battery banks. HOWEVER, although the batteries themselves are monsters, the present USB adapters seem to self destruct if called on to provide much more then 1 Amp output. Maybe there’s a TA of the USB battery pack adapter world out there somewhere that will address this problem, I hope.
I also hope you’re right about Olight learning a lesson from the X7R, as although I love my X7s, I wouldn’t touch one of the R versions with someone else’s 11 foot pole (unless they start appearing in flash sales for ~$11, maybe).
Yeah, I could do the same thing if I had the 70.2 MT09R with TA driver that I paid Terry $180 for back in April, that he never shipped, and won’t refund my money for…
If you paid with PayPal or a credit card file a claim.
Olight is an overpriced hype machine. I have never handled one that I thought was worth the money.
Did that already, just looking for a creative way to slip in (another) warning about his business practices somewhere as the MT09R GB tread still appears to be closed.
Perfect, I am looking for any opportunity myself. I
I was expecting more for their Beamshots vidz. 
The most it worth $300?
OK, I’ll quit buying them. Glad I found out now as I only have around 20, guess it could have got a lot worse before I learned/”saw the light”. Thanks!
I apparently mistakenly thought SOME of their flash sales were pretty decent.
Up until now, the only one I regreted buying was the SR90 with the proprietary battery pack that doesn’t work any more.
(Couldn’t find the snark emoticon)
I totally agree with your reasonable price point assessment, but still woulsn’t consider one at that price point unless the proprietary battery pack also dropped to <$100.
That’s what I used to think too. But with the new TA lumen correction factor the MT09RTA is more like 20k lumens on turbo and it last 30s before stepdown. The X9R can hold 25k lumens for 3 minutes. Also Olight’s quality and tech is far superior to the budget brands. Their R&D and QA spent on making a quality light is why it cost so much more than the budget brands such as Haikelite. For example they have a built in proximity sensor that dims the light if it detects something infront of it to prevent starting fires that we’ve seen in several videos of the MT09R starting fires within seconds of putting paper/cardboard in front of it. This is not useful for most but if you have toddlers like I do, that is actually a useful safety feature. But still, I rather have active cooling and 40k lumens from the X70.
I’ve only owned the Olight H2R but I was very impressed with the quality and performance (Maukka did a great review). Soft cost like R&D and thorough QA is very expensive. HL spent very little on these in comparison in order to afford selling at low prices and their lights usually require subsequent revisions to fix and improve (e.g. MT09R).
Maybe the OL high end lights are better, I have never wanted to try one. I certainly was not comparing the quality to HL. As it stands now I would never buy a finished HL. Maybe a host.
I look at what they offer and in basically every case (outside of weapon lights, which I am not interested in) I would rather have a Thrunite or a Zebralight.
Don’t worry, with so many recent paypal disputes filed against Terry’s account, you will surely get your money back. I filed a dispute with Terry on the SC26 GB preorder and it automatically escalated to a claim within a day. I’m really glad my other purchase from Terry’s store was made during the early days of his business because I sent money to him as Friend and Family to help him out thinking he was a good guy. If I did that in March or April, that money would have been hopeless.
I’m hypothesizing that the reason Olight can’t push the lumens higher on the X9R is because they design for mass consumer use and for liability/warranty reasons unlike some of the smaller brands that don’t have a world wide presence, which won’t give a damn if your flashlight fails or explodes. Olight does an impressive array of testing to guarantee their specs, which I doubt the majority of other manufacturers have the knowledge/resource/facility to do. Most companies don’t even have a lumen sphere to test their light output hence the majority of flashlights have exaggerated lumen specs. Olight also probably wanted to make sure the X9R can at least maintain 3-min on turbo in a variety of environmental conditions to ensure practicality of the light.
They’re also charging for the proximity sensor on the business end, that keeps muggles from burning themselves. So that’s an additional consideration, although i doubt many of us here need that.