Away for a few years... catching up on things

Falcon9h · Jan 13, 2020

Excuse the long lag time. Been away.
I'm heartbroken in seeing Solarforce appears to be out of business? Anyone know the story?

bykfixer · Jan 13, 2020

Good question. Perhaps the P60 market dried up enough that they were no longer viable. I really liked the L2M, the cheap glass and other accessories like round (old school SF-esque) heads.

Welcome back.

Chauncey Gardiner · Jan 13, 2020

The last time I started to purchase a Solarforce (a carbon fiber if memory serves me) there was way too much information required for me to be comfortable proceeding. I don't remember all the questions, but I remember deciding not to provide the answers to a Chinese company. I looked around for a US company instead. Never before or since have I had so much personal information requested to purchase a light.

archimedes · Jan 13, 2020

Most of mine (all of them, I think, other than those I got here on CPF/MP) came from Lighthound ... sadly long gone too.

aginthelaw · Jan 13, 2020

Customlites still has solarforce stuff

vadimax · Jan 14, 2020

Chauncey Gardiner said:
The last time I started to purchase a Solarforce (a carbon fiber if memory serves me) there was way too much information required for me to be comfortable proceeding. I don't remember all the questions, but I remember deciding not to provide the answers to a Chinese company. I looked around for a US company instead. Never before or since have I had so much personal information requested to purchase a light.

Were you triggered that they have asked your address where to send a parcel?

Just kiddin

Chauncey Gardiner · Jan 14, 2020

vadimax said:
Were you triggered that they have asked your address where to send a parcel? Just kiddin

They should've already known - Chauncey Gardiner!

Falcon9h · Jan 14, 2020

bykfixer said:
Good question. Perhaps the P60 market dried up enough that they were no longer viable. I really liked the L2M, the cheap glass and other accessories like round (old school SF-esque) heads.

Welcome back.

Thanks. Glad I bought up a lot of hosts... who woulda figured? This 'thing of ours' has really changed. The early 2000's were pretty heady days with developing LED tech and it was a blast modding lights. I should pull out some old hosts and modernize them just for nostalgia's sake. Solarforces were the last lights I did. After that production lights outstripped anything I could (afford to) mod.

bykfixer · Jan 14, 2020

Production lights may be the reason a P60 platform is becoming less and less popular.

I like seeing the new generation exploring their first 6P (or similar) and commenting about how awesome they were/are.

Nope, non user servicable lights are here to stay (yawn)……

Chauncey Gardiner · Jan 14, 2020

bykfixer said:
Production lights may be the reason a P60 platform is becoming less and less popular.

I like seeing the new generation exploring their first 6P (or similar) and commenting about how awesome they were/are.

Nope, non user servicable lights are here to stay (yawn)……

Speaking of something to catch-up on - The new Foursevens lights no longer have their heads glued, so are now user-serviceable/moddable.

swordfish2 · Jan 15, 2020

Note: Commercial post.
Hi, we are based in India and We still have a lot of Solarforce stock, if anyone is interested, please mail us

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