You misunderstood him. He only sent the head back to China one time.
He meant “just” as “only”, not as “just now for a second time”.
That’s not acceptable. Imagine if all laptops had to do that. If you let it charge too long your laptop chargers burns out. That would be crazy.
Aha, thanks! :+1:
I don’t mean to be disrespectful and appreciate the effort gone into this review but the lumen outputs readings are inaccurate. The Max output of the DX80 has been confirmed from Several other sources as 30-32k lumens. We’ll wait for more sources but from the testing I made on mine, it was definitely putting out well over 25k lumens. Just a shame there are quality issues with the chargers, electronics and cheap feeling switch.
He does state quite clearly that his integrating sphere is not calibrated for such high powered lights.
It should be noted that in the turbo mode I get much lower values, surely motivated by the calibration and characteristics of my integrating sphere, because Imalent sent me a document of a Test that indicated that the luminous flux was 32000 lumens.
I wonder how this light would perform if they ditched the OP finish and went with a smooth reflector?
You’re not being disrespectful, but I do notice a lot of disrespect for the DX80.
Sure there are problems, but this is an enthusiasts light that is definitely pushing the envelope.
I bought mine knowing full well what I was getting into, and I must say that this light is outrageously bright.
To any of the “seasoned veterans” on this forum that are getting bored with the “same old thing”
I strongly suggest you get one of these, and experience all over again that thrill you had when you first came across your very first high powered LED flashlight.
You have outlined the exact same feeling that I got from this flashlight. If only they could fix these issues which they definitely could do if they put some more research and testing into it and got that Engineers on to it, this light would be killer good.
excellent review! thanx!
Itching to buy but I think I will wait to see if these get corrected first
Have I been disrespectful with the DX80?..………………… Have you read the review? My conclusion:
the DX80 is the best flashlight in the power / projection / throw ratio of all that I have. For me it is a reference in the market, or the reference in its segment
Thank you very much JasonWW for help understand my bad English 
Not Again.
It was in relation to the lanyard. Mine was factory installed, and now to the companions, the lanyard came not installed and with a metallic ring. I don’t know if imalent something changed in the body, because the body of my unit was not sent to china. 
Maiden666,
I wasn’t referring to you when I talked about disrespect.
I was thinking of those that off handedly dismissed any serious consideration of the light due to minor problems, or the fact it can’t run on full out turbo for any length of time.
There are those that have had a bad experience with Imalent in the past and want nothing to do with them in the future.
Also, if you scroll through the threads on this light, you will see that there are very few of the so called “elite” members here posting.
I get the impression that this light is being shunned by many.
And that is a shame.
On the other hand, I am VERY happy with mine, and so far anybody that I have personally shown it to has ordered one.
There are reasons why I’m skeptical about this light. Oh I want Imalent desperately to succeed with this light, because I truly love Imalent on paper. But reality on the other hand makes me skeptical. I see it differently, and I don’t consider what has happened recently minor problems. I have recently mentioned about this light not being able to run on full turbo for any time of length, but there is a story behind it that you have not mentioned. In post #125 I wrote:
“Interestingly, output also plummets from high at 12000 lumens. It appears there is no thermal control at all, and light is programmed to plummet output to steady state of 7000 lumens. This severely reduces the fun of the super high output modes.
Now if the light is supposed to perform like this, I’m totally fine with it (although it is odd). However, because of this exceptionally bad, or odd behaviour at start up, I’m worried the light is simply flawed, and more susceptible to complete failure in the near future…”
On the German forum I read that the light handled 13000 lumens for about 10 or 12 minutes or so, as it’s supposed to. That is simply not the case with Maiden’s sample, which is of the second batch. Why is that? This simply is a realistic point of concern.
The charger problem can be considered a minor problem, and generally I would agree with that. However, in this case I see it differently as well. It’s a actually a power supply right? No one designs these things; they’re bought in bulk from manufacturer X I assume. Now of course it’s always possible to get a bad batch of power supplies, or dealing with a bad manufacturer. However, because of Imalent’s rich history of poor quality products, I’m worried - at the same time being realistic here - that Imalent opted for the cheapest of the cheapest of manufacturers of these power supplies. This light is $220 with discount, and included are eight pieces of XHP70.2 emitters, and eight pieces of Samsung 30Q cells. It’s a dang bargain on paper, so obviously Imalent cannot spend too much on quality parts. The structural failing of the power supply to me is an indication that Imalent might have put too many budget components in the DX80 that could fail too soon…
There is a reason this light is being shunned by many who read about Imalent…
Anyhow, I honestly hope the DX80 will be a success, because I truly want to enjoy this light as much as you do! :partying_face:
I have no respect for Imalent. Every model they put out (DN70, DN35, DT70, DT35, the touch screen models, etc…) has serious problems. They seem to be innovative with designs and displays, but they just go too fast and don’t really test stuff before releasing it to the public. Customers should not be test subjects. I was hoping this DX80 would be better and they learn from their mistakes, but no. The DX80 is actually frying the drivers. How could they release it and not know the mode spacing was so far off? It’s just shocking.
Buying from them is like Russian roulette. I really wanted a DN70, but they had so many issues. Even when they were on sale for $50, I said no, it’s not worth the risk.
Imalents reputation is very tarnished here and because there are so many flashlight companies and so much competition I’ll just wait for a better company to come out with a really high output light.
Personally I think “beginner” should avoid DX80. But then what is the definition of “beginner”.
To me, she is in dangerous toy category. Not sure this is considered disrespect or negativity towards DX80 or not.
Agree.That’s it :+1:
I still read the Imalent threads though, hoping they will do better.
I don’t understand Imalent decision to make DX80 to be such small size. She should be bigger. Fenix RC40 is bigger and only about 45W light at maximum mode. DX80 is 300+W light at maximum mode.
Although Imalent might take it as challenge to make smallest and most powerful flashlight, but that could be putting their customers or product reliability at risk.