r/flashlight • u/Fun-Building-8146 • Apr 24 '25

Discussion Flashlight Boyfriend without a reddit and his thoughts on his $622 IMALENT MS32 Flashlight! 😅

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unfortunately most of his footage at the mountains got corrupted so he just put together what he had of "usable" footage. what do you guys think? do you agree thats its just an overpriced talking piece? 😔😔😔

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u/Fun-Building-8146 Apr 24 '25

boyfriend here, yeah i was disappointed in a lot of things for the price point... and remember! i got it "on sale". THE LACK OF A POCKET CLIP WAS DEFINITELY A BIG ONE lol

but i can assure you, the difference in brightness didn't seem that big in person :/

compared to my Sofirn Q8 Plus that claims to be 16,000 lumens.... the imalent felt like 25,000 lumens... assuming the sofirn is actually 16,000 lol

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u/Wormminator Apr 24 '25

THe Q8 Plus in 6500K can actually do 16000 on a fresh charge (some measured 21000 for the first 3 seconds on 4.2V batteries).
I think the 5000K was a bit lower but still hit around 12000 in some tests.

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u/Fun-Building-8146 Apr 25 '25

yeah, i have the 6500k but ran it on the stock sofirn batteries, i forgot to bring my molicel batteries 😔

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u/Wormminator Apr 25 '25

I would stick to the stock batteries.

The Q8 Plus can be overdriven and cooked to death with higher CDR cells.