Remember the KD special on the L2m body that included an XM-L dropin for $20? I got it today in the mail.
Coincidentally, I also received an L2m from solarfoce-sales.com the same day. Here is the photo of both, side by side.
Which one is a real Solarforce, and which is the fake?
If you guessed the real one is the one that says 'Solarforce" on it, you would be wrong. The real Solarforce is on the right, with the stainless steel PREMIUM bezel on it. The fake has the cheap SS bezel that does not extend past the head of the light. Sorry about the dust on the trunk of the Bimmer, it's not my car.
The fake in the photo below is the KD that came with the emitter already installed. The real S/F was a host only, despite the fact that they were both the same price.
The fake is longer, but it tailstands, if that is important to you. The fake also came with a lanyard, the real one did not.
The internals of the tailcap switch visible here. The fake has the standard screw-in switch, I have no clue how to remove the switch from the real one.
Which is too bad, because guess what? The fake L2m came with nice lube on the threads and o-rings, and everything worked perfectly.
The real L2m came with the switch DOA (dead on arrival). The clicky tailswitch won't click. It's like there is something blocking it, I can't press it down enough to actually get a "click" out of it. Anyone know how to repair it? PROBLEM RESOLVED, IT WAS USER ERROR See posts farther down this thread, operation of the clicky on the Solarforce light is different, it is a twist-on, twist-off light.
The REAL S/F has the solarforce URL in the tailcap along with "HA III"
But bottom line, the KD is s steal for the money, it's like getting a free XM-L drop-in.
Now I have to figure out how to fix the $20 budget host with the bad switch.
Bill