| The Mag Solitaire was groundbreaking when it was introduced many years ago, but now it's been eclipsed by better lightsthe light produced by the Solitare is a dim, sickly yellow characteristic of an underdriven incandescent bulb, the battery life is short, when a Soli is "done" with the battery, there is still about 40-50% power left that can drive an LED flashlight (like the Dorcy 1AAA or Arc AAA series)the vaunted Mag "focusing" beam is beyond useless on this light, on "flood", there's a huge hole in the center of the beam, surrounded by a dim orange spill, on "spot" the light is usable, barely, it has dark swirls and voids and is a very tight hotspot, it's just plain uglythe light uses "Type 2" anodizing, and type 2 ano does *NOT* hold up well to life on a keyring, in a few short weeks, the Soli will be riddled with scratches and gouges, looking like it's been through a warthe Solitaire also has a tendency to unscrew itself when kept on a keyring [...]), in short, the Solitaire is a very poorly designed light, if I could have given it zero stars, or negative stars, i would have, the Solitaire is best avoided entirely, NOT RECCOMENDED AT ALLthe Solitaire's time has passed, it's outperformed by everything else out there, even the cheap .99¢ "Photon-style" squeezylights outperform the Solitaire, they produce a far better beam, and have a much longer runtimeMag Instrument should either update the Solitaire to LED, or just drop it from their line entirely, in it's current incarnation, it's absolutely useless |
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