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Being a home inspector, I needed a flashlight that was bright enough to light up the crawl spaces and be thin enough to carry on a C-cell sized belt loop.
I personally have the Sunlite WFP16 or whatever model it is. It is a fantastic flashlight and could not recommend it enough.
My business partner, seeing my flashlight, decided to get his own and asked me for help in picking one.
I went on this forum and found a review on the Solarforce Masterpiece being somewhat favorable. However, there are no reviews out there that conduct what I would call a stress test.
The Solarforce Masterpiece, or what it is now known as, the Solarfarce Masterpiece-o-sh!t, was a complete waste of money.
Results:
Purchased one on eBay for my partner. Came with a cracked lens. After repeated attempts to contact the seller to get a replacement lens for 2 months, he consistently told me the factory would not send one out. I didn't buy the excuse. My business partner ended up making his own lens.
My partners assistant wanted his own flashlight (they conduct the termite and mold inspections). He liked the brightness of the Solarfarce Masterpiece-o-sh!t and ordered one on eBay on his own... apparently from the same seller. Prior to his ordering the Solarfarce, I tried to persuade him to get a different brand of flashlight. He didn't listen.
The flashlight came and within a week it stopped working. The light would not activate. It had a defective tail switch. He sent the flashlight back to the seller in Hong Kong. I told him to sell it on eBay as a broken flashlight and not to send it back to the seller. It has been a month with no response from the seller about a replacement flashlight. So he is out the cost of the flashlight, shipping to Hong Kong, and the value of what he could sell a broken flashlight for on eBay or here.
Then the original flashlight with the broken, but now replaced, lens started to act up. In order to switch brightness levels; all you had to do is click the tail switch... right?.... wrong! Now the only way to switch levels, and to even turn it on and off, is to hit the tail cap on its side with your hand.
To make matters worse, there is no clicky feedback on the tailcap switch and is extremely mushy and not at all pleasant to use.
To give you an idea of the kind of abuse our flashlights go through:
Crawling through attics
Crawling through dusty crawl spaces under houses
Lights are activated and deactivated approximately 150 - 300 times a day
Lights remain on for up to 30 minutes while in crawl spaces and attics.
I have had my Sunlite for MONTHS without one issue under the above demands.
We have now purchased two M30 Tritons with the anticipation of better results. Personally, I wanted them to order two Sunlites but they didn't want to pay as much and they wanted more lumens.
So I propose a toast. Here is to the worst flashlight I have ever had the displeasure of using. This toast is in honor of....
THE SOLARFARCE MASTERPIECE-O-SH!T
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Being a home inspector, I needed a flashlight that was bright enough to light up the crawl spaces and be thin enough to carry on a C-cell sized belt loop.
I personally have the Sunlite WFP16 or whatever model it is. It is a fantastic flashlight and could not recommend it enough.
My business partner, seeing my flashlight, decided to get his own and asked me for help in picking one.
I went on this forum and found a review on the Solarforce Masterpiece being somewhat favorable. However, there are no reviews out there that conduct what I would call a stress test.
The Solarforce Masterpiece, or what it is now known as, the Solarfarce Masterpiece-o-sh!t, was a complete waste of money.
Results:
Purchased one on eBay for my partner. Came with a cracked lens. After repeated attempts to contact the seller to get a replacement lens for 2 months, he consistently told me the factory would not send one out. I didn't buy the excuse. My business partner ended up making his own lens.
My partners assistant wanted his own flashlight (they conduct the termite and mold inspections). He liked the brightness of the Solarfarce Masterpiece-o-sh!t and ordered one on eBay on his own... apparently from the same seller. Prior to his ordering the Solarfarce, I tried to persuade him to get a different brand of flashlight. He didn't listen.
The flashlight came and within a week it stopped working. The light would not activate. It had a defective tail switch. He sent the flashlight back to the seller in Hong Kong. I told him to sell it on eBay as a broken flashlight and not to send it back to the seller. It has been a month with no response from the seller about a replacement flashlight. So he is out the cost of the flashlight, shipping to Hong Kong, and the value of what he could sell a broken flashlight for on eBay or here.
Then the original flashlight with the broken, but now replaced, lens started to act up. In order to switch brightness levels; all you had to do is click the tail switch... right?.... wrong! Now the only way to switch levels, and to even turn it on and off, is to hit the tail cap on its side with your hand.
To make matters worse, there is no clicky feedback on the tailcap switch and is extremely mushy and not at all pleasant to use.
To give you an idea of the kind of abuse our flashlights go through:
Crawling through attics
Crawling through dusty crawl spaces under houses
Lights are activated and deactivated approximately 150 - 300 times a day
Lights remain on for up to 30 minutes while in crawl spaces and attics.
I have had my Sunlite for MONTHS without one issue under the above demands.
We have now purchased two M30 Tritons with the anticipation of better results. Personally, I wanted them to order two Sunlites but they didn't want to pay as much and they wanted more lumens.
So I propose a toast. Here is to the worst flashlight I have ever had the displeasure of using. This toast is in honor of....
THE SOLARFARCE MASTERPIECE-O-SH!T
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
