When will Mag release a factory LED Solitaire?

I tried a search and did not readily see a thread about when we can expect stores to be selling Mag SOLITAIRES with LED...

Is there any information about this floating around out there? Reliable information?

Thanks!

I think you will find that Mag Instruments

moves about as fast as molasses in wintertime.

There is an LED drop in for the solitaire.

light_emitting_dude said:

There is an LED drop in for the solitaire.

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There's an upgrade here at www.lighthound.com.

Lightmania

Lightmania said:

There's an upgrade here at www.lighthound.com.

Lightmania

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I have a couple of these and they work pretty good if you have some old unused Solitaires laying around. I did and they have been resurrected as useful lights, now.

Gave one to my budding flashaholic daughter.

whippoorwill said:

I have a couple of these and they work pretty good if you have some old unused Solitaires laying around. I did and they have been resurrected as useful lights, now.

Gave one to my budding flashaholic daughter.

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I agree. I got a couple of these from Lighthound. My reaction to them was WOW! I gave one to a buddy of mine, he couldn't believe how much brighter they are then the incan bulb. It made my decades old solitaire useful again.

But it effected my buddy like marijuana. It was a gateway light. Now he's hooked. He's going for the hard stuff like Inova, Arc and Surefire.

peacefuljeffrey said:

I tried a search and did not readily see a thread about when we can expect stores to be selling Mag SOLITAIRES with LED...

Is there any information about this floating around out there? Reliable information?

Thanks!

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From the response I got from them some months back, I'd say never.
I had asked about a 1xAA version with maybe a 1 watt Lux and they referred to the 1 watt as being "retro-technology." So I don't really see them stuffing a 3 watter into a solitaire....
They even advised me to look into TerraLux drop-ins from FlashlightKing.com.

Probably best to look into Fenix if you're needing a 1xAAA sized light, because unless Mag plans to adopt Cree LEDs newer technology sometime down the road, I just don't see a solitaire happening.
And they stated there are no future plans for one.

There is so much dust behind the reflector of my new Solitaire, which can't be cleaned out, that I question whether the bulb is actually not putting out twice as much as it appears to be.

This makes me question the wisdom of putting an LED in there instead of just buying a new AAA LED light.

The solitaire on a fresh battery is just about the perfect amount of light for some tasks, so I keep it.

I wonder how the Sol upgrade would compare to a Photon coin light ?
A long time ago, I swapped my keyring Sol for a X-Light from Photon, and love it...

ps56k said:

I wonder how the Sol upgrade would compare to a Photon coin light ?

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My guess is not very favorably to either the Photon Freedom or the cheap $.50 coin cell lights that use two 2016's like the Fauxton.