Olight X7 Marauder Review (9000 lumens, XHP70, 4x 18650)

mhanlen · Oct 20, 2016

Olight X7 Marauder Review

Hey there guys. A few weeks ago Going Gear sent me the Olight X7 for review. I finally finished it Monday, and it's one of my longer reviews. I tested runtimes, outputs, and did a big beamshot section. While it isn't as detailed as some text reviews, it contains many night shots, a full UI demo, and more. It's shot like a short film, with my nice cameras, all on manual settings. Thanks for watching!

maukka · Oct 20, 2016

That 15 minutes went flying past.

mhanlen · Oct 20, 2016

maukka said:
That 15 minutes went flying past.

Thanks man! Love you review too! Your color temp and CRI testing is great.

markr6 · Oct 20, 2016

Great review as always. Stupid bright! An Amazon review sums it up nicely: "Could probably be a helicopter spotlight!" LOL

ven · Oct 20, 2016

Great review as always, might be long as you say, but its easy to sit through

Does look a real solid package for the money

Top stuff mr mhanlen

PocketLight88 · Oct 20, 2016

Great review! This makes me want to get a monster flooder even more! I was hoping they would come out with a neutral white option but the beam doesn't look too blue in the video.

mhanlen · Oct 20, 2016

markr6 said:
Great review as always. Stupid bright! An Amazon review sums it up nicely: "Could probably be a helicopter spotlight!" LOL

That's basically it. It's like the bat signal!

ven said:
Great review as always, might be long as you say, but its easy to sit through Does look a real solid package for the money

Top stuff mr mhanlen

For sure. Finally something was able to get close to the Meteor in a good dollar per lumen ratio. That was the king for a while.

PocketLight88 said:
Great review! This makes me want to get a monster flooder even more! I was hoping they would come out with a neutral white option but the beam doesn't look too blue in the video.

It's a cool white. I have to do color correcting with the video- because the camera requires it. But it's not too bad.... the beamshot section is probably the most accurate portion of the video, and since I show a variety of tints and keep the color temperature the same then it represents a good tint comparison.

Poppy · Oct 20, 2016

Two thumbs up for another excellent review.

One of the things that I like is that while showing outside beam shots of each light you also subtitle it with its specs... lumens, and cd. I love how you do the run-time sections of your reviews.

This review must have taken you a really long time to put together. THANK YOU so very much.

And now a little plug for Marshall at GoingGear.com
It has already been a few years since I bought my first GOOD led light, January 2013. I bought a TN30 from Marshall at goinggear. He shipped it right away and I was delighted to receive it as quickly as I did. The TN30 is a triple led light 3000 lumens. One of the three LEDs was a different tint, or was failing. Not only did he swap the light out for me, he sent me the replacement before I sent him back the faulty one.

Talk about customer service!

What a great guy! I never hesitate to order from him or to recommend him.

Loomun · Oct 20, 2016

Great review, thanks.

Roger Sully · Oct 20, 2016

ven said:
Top stuff mr mhanlen

Great review as usual.

defbear · Oct 20, 2016

Thank you for the wonderful review. It answered every question. What a light. And so easy to own. I'm not sure I'm worthy :0

Boots45acp · Oct 20, 2016

Very nice review - Thank you.
Now I am even more excited as X7vn is due to arrive tomorrow... Vihn pumped this bad boy up to 16,200 lumens.

mhanlen · Oct 21, 2016

Poppy said:
Two thumbs up for another excellent review.

One of the things that I like is that while showing outside beam shots of each light you also subtitle it with its specs... lumens, and cd. I love how you do the run-time sections of your reviews.

This review must have taken you a really long time to put together. THANK YOU so very much.

And now a little plug for Marshall at GoingGear.com
It has already been a few years since I bought my first GOOD led light, January 2013. I bought a TN30 from Marshall at goinggear. He shipped it right away and I was delighted to receive it as quickly as I did. The TN30 is a triple led light 3000 lumens. One of the three LEDs was a different tint, or was failing. Not only did he swap the light out for me, he sent me the replacement before I sent him back the faulty one.

Talk about customer service!

What a great guy! I never hesitate to order from him or to recommend him.

Yep, Marshall is a great dude- super nice and awesome customer service. The reviews do take a while to put together. Trying to find free time to shoot and edit them is the tough part. Thanks a lot man!

Loomun said:
Great review, thanks.

Thanks!

defbear said:
Thank you for the wonderful review. It answered every question. What a light. And so easy to own. I'm not sure I'm worthy :0

I hope it did. I tried to cover everything. Occasionally I forget to mention or add something, but I try to be relatively comprehensive in the info.

Boots45acp said:
Very nice review - Thank you.
Now I am even more excited as X7vn is due to arrive tomorrow... Vihn pumped this bad boy up to 16,200 lumens.

Holy crap! What a lumen monster. What tint is it, if you don't mind me asking?

adirondackdestroyer · Oct 21, 2016

Awesome review! This light really is one of the most impressive ones on the market, I only wish there was a discount code or a group buy to bring the price down a little further.

StandardBattery · Oct 22, 2016

adirondackdestroyer said:
Awesome review! This light really is one of the most impressive ones on the market, I only wish there was a discount code or a group buy to bring the price down a little further.

I'd pay 10% more for a warmer tint.

SG Hall · Oct 22, 2016

Excellent review mhanlen, thanks. Impressive stock light!

The vn version at 16200 lumens ( turn on) is 6500k. There is a shaved dome version at 15000 that would be around 5500-6000k probably, and a NW version available if wanted. [emoji4]

HIDSGT · Oct 22, 2016

so basically Olight produced another pop-can light with a whopping 313 meters of throw! wow! LAME!

so the last flagship light Olight produced was the SR96 and THIS is its replacement? all I can say about this light is its WEAK! pop-can lights are no different then the flood light hanging over my garage door that goes off at nite smh. it throws about the same as this light does.

OMG 9000 lumens let me run out and buy this. I have seen this light in person and its anything but impressive just like any of the other poop-can lights. lumens don't mean poop without at least some decent throw. 313 meters isn't decent its pathetic!

Doomsday · Oct 22, 2016

HIDSGT said:
so basically Olight produced another pop-can light with a whopping 313 meters of throw! wow! LAME!

so the last flagship light Olight produced was the SR96 and THIS is its replacement? all I can say about this light is its WEAK! pop-can lights are no different then the flood light hanging over my garage door that goes off at nite smh. it throws about the same as this light does.

OMG 9000 lumens let me run out and buy this. I have seen this light in person and its anything but impressive just like any of the other poop-can lights. lumens don't mean poop without at least some decent throw. 313 meters isn't decent its pathetic!

https://youtu.be/q4pbM9HR16E?t=3m57s

X9 - Supposedly 12000 lumens with a built in fan

tonkem · Oct 22, 2016

HIDSGT said:
so basically Olight produced another pop-can light with a whopping 313 meters of throw! wow! LAME!

so the last flagship light Olight produced was the SR96 and THIS is its replacement? all I can say about this light is its WEAK! pop-can lights are no different then the flood light hanging over my garage door that goes off at nite smh. it throws about the same as this light does.

OMG 9000 lumens let me run out and buy this. I have seen this light in person and its anything but impressive just like any of the other poop-can lights. lumens don't mean poop without at least some decent throw. 313 meters isn't decent its pathetic!

This light is not meant to throw. Hence the shallow reflectors.

StandardBattery · Oct 22, 2016

HIDSGT said:
.... so the last flagship light Olight produced was the SR96 and THIS is its replacement? ....

I haven't see anywhere Olight claiming this is any sort of replacement for the SR96.

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