Show your Solarforce some Love * Intl Solarforce Charge Day! :)

DB_Custom · 2018-05-27T14:58:29.000Z

I knew I shouldn’t have looked, that Gladiator takes 4x18650 and is atrocious! Fitted with an XHP-35 it’d be a truly wicked car/truck carry light…… how can I resist all these? Oh, I know, I’m broke!

Solarforce Gladiator, merely $52 for a handful of attention grabbing meanness.

DB_Custom · 2018-05-27T15:00:54.000Z

Oh, so, Adrian, looking at the Gladiator (which I Don’t have yet) the lantern probably won’t fit as it doesn’t have the larger diameter head of the L2 series lights. Sorry.

aginthelaw · 2018-05-27T17:14:04.000Z

I’m practicing posting images. But if you want to see what’s going to top these guys, look at bugsy’s thread for the cerakoted versions I just picked up.

And it didn’t work. Give me a minute while I work on it. In the meantime, I have 2 L2x meat tenderizers, one with a k3 head and the other with a 14v warm halogen bulb. The l2p has a vinz drop in while the other has a sportac drop in and a baked tube.

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It works. I’m going to change my sig line to “I not only build computers, I know how to use them”

Newlumen · 2018-05-27T17:49:11.000Z

Here is my surefire lights.

Z2 combat dual xpl hi and dual 219c… 2345 lumen @30 seconds.

6p quad xpl hi. 2212 lumen @30 seconds…

They are very bright for the size… most light around that size only put about 1500 lumen…

I set my lights to 3 modes… great heatsink! Medium and 50 lumen mode are good and no overheat… those two are my keeper…

Newlumen · 2018-05-27T17:59:13.000Z

Adventure sport body with surefire tailcap… I bought this used for around $140.
It use 2 x 18650 and xhp 70 dedome… very bright… I measured 3700 lumen @30 seconds… legit lumen…

chops728 · 2018-05-27T21:24:21.000Z

Four of my Favorites

UliBär · 2018-05-27T22:54:51.000Z

As there are so many Solarforce fans here, i have a question:
Is there any P60 host for 26650 out there :question:

chops728 · 2018-05-27T23:37:13.000Z

The Cooly is for 26650 —I have one —not that attractive in my book

Lightbringer · 2018-05-28T01:40:32.000Z

UliBär:

As there are so many Solarforce fans here, i have a question:
Is there any P60 host for 26650 out there :question:

Probably not. The D26 (P60, P90) is 26mm across at the reflector, and the 26650 is already 26mm, so the battery tube would have to shrink down to snugly fit the (~20mm) base of the module.

Chatika_vas_Paus · 2018-05-28T05:22:58.000Z

DB Custom:

Oh, there are sales on at Solarforce, the amazing P1D is only $16!!! Lot of good prices, looking around even now…

Amazing? Can’t understand. Why everyone like this host? I have it. I bought it for three times this price and I regret it, and if I had to buy it again at the current price, I would consider it very much.

I do not think that it is qualitatively different from the rest (L2 series), but there are two things that for me exclude P1D as EDC.

First, the surface is too smooth. There are no knurling and when I want to turn it on it always moves in my hand.
The second thing is the tail switch. One ring for pushing the switch and contacting the body. It unscrews very quickly when the battery is replaced frequently.

CRX · 2018-05-28T09:12:48.000Z

I only have the one Solarforce now, the bruiser
Showed it some love by making a copper & aluminium drop-in for it with some Nichia’s.

The_Last_Katun · 2018-05-30T14:39:44.000Z

I only have four Solarforce; but I have a question: can the steel crown of the tailcap be unscrewed?
Drop-ins are XML and also an SSC-P7

vinte77 · 2018-05-30T16:21:46.000Z

The Last Katun:

I only have four Solarforce; but I have a question: can the steel crown of the tailcap be unscrewed?
Drop-ins are XML and also an SSC-P7

No, they can’t be unscrewed since they are part of the tailcap.

DB_Custom · 2018-05-30T18:39:52.000Z

CRX, wouldn’t it be fun to use 4 parallel XHP-35’s under that quad optic? Perhaps close to 8000 lumens, given the right driver and cells?

Nice work on that heat sinking pill, looks sharp!

DB_Custom · 2018-05-30T18:43:07.000Z

The P1D in the metal variant is an awesome light, I think, because it’s so robustly made and the cut-out style on the battery tube acts as knurling. My wife is 5’ tall with small hands, she loves it… confiscated it from me and won’t let me mod it. She was working nights at the Hospital at the time, they made employees park WAAAAY out in the massive parking lot… she used it every night walking out to her car close to midnight.

CRX · 2018-05-30T19:48:58.000Z

No. You know I hate parallel XHP35’s :laughing:
I have thought about 3 or 4 SST-40’s though

DB_Custom · 2018-05-30T22:36:30.000Z

What’s different about paralleling 4 12V emitters as compared to 3V? The battery tube on that club carries 4 cells, run LED4Power’s LD1 or LD2 (forget which) and let it push 8A to the 4 35’s, nothing wrong with that.

old4570 · 2018-05-30T22:55:07.000Z

L2X
L2micro from my LEGO days . ( Needs a new emitter )

chilisauce · 2019-02-17T12:31:28.000Z

Anybody here letting go of the ff:
solarforce l2m stainless steel
solarforce l2 stainless steel
solarforce A001black head
solarforce A001 stainless steel

mmalive · 2019-02-18T20:21:23.000Z

I do not own any Solaforce BUT want to. Do any want sell ” souped ” versions? Give a a hollar.