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Flashlight Enthusiast
Because nobody is buying incans anymore. The vast majority are going you know where. It's not the lumens. It's the total cost of ownership that's the bottom line. And the consumer is a price shopper. The bulbs constantly blow out and have a limited lifepsan. It's a PITA to deal with that and carry spare sets on mission-critical assignments.
The things go through batteries like crazy. The performance generated is not all that great versus possibilities. Runtime is downright awful. So it's not really the lumen level.
Surefire is no longer offering any incan models. Hasn't for years.
The incan bulb industry is fast heading the way of the CRT monitor, non-digital photography and the VHS tapes. All of these still have holdouts to various degrees but are either a seriously endangered or extinct species, either right here and now or just around the corner. The traffic on this subforum is 1/10 to 1/15 of the LED sub-forum.
Support is slowly drying up as evidenced by this post. When sales are low, stores close. Or re-tool for new technologies. Like Kodak. Has become irrelevant because they did not in time adapt to the digital photography and stuck to an old paradigm. So, evolve or perish. A device invented in the typewriter era has outlived it but is about to join it. So why even invest in dying technology.
OTOH, mint condition 20 year old incan Surefires will bring premium prices to eccentric collectors. Like the people that collect typewriters and ford model T's. (And then don't really use them but use laptops and new Toyotas to get around).
The things go through batteries like crazy. The performance generated is not all that great versus possibilities. Runtime is downright awful. So it's not really the lumen level.
Surefire is no longer offering any incan models. Hasn't for years.
The incan bulb industry is fast heading the way of the CRT monitor, non-digital photography and the VHS tapes. All of these still have holdouts to various degrees but are either a seriously endangered or extinct species, either right here and now or just around the corner. The traffic on this subforum is 1/10 to 1/15 of the LED sub-forum.
Support is slowly drying up as evidenced by this post. When sales are low, stores close. Or re-tool for new technologies. Like Kodak. Has become irrelevant because they did not in time adapt to the digital photography and stuck to an old paradigm. So, evolve or perish. A device invented in the typewriter era has outlived it but is about to join it. So why even invest in dying technology.
OTOH, mint condition 20 year old incan Surefires will bring premium prices to eccentric collectors. Like the people that collect typewriters and ford model T's. (And then don't really use them but use laptops and new Toyotas to get around).
I did several searches to see if there was any new info about the closing of bulb search site Donsbulbs.com and I didn't find anything on CPF about this.
Tonight I tried to go to Donsbulbs.com and this message is all that showed up.
--- Don has retired, and donsbulbs is permanently closed ---
No plans yet on possible future liquidating of assets.
If anything changes in the future, news will be posted here.
I have used this website for years when researching incandescent bulbs. Dons site was a wealth of information about bulbs of all types. He had info on everything and as far as I know his site is the only one of its kind. I checked on the internet archive Way Back Machine and they seem to have an incomplete archive of his website. I tried to do a few searches but the information is not there.
I'm sad to see this valuable resource go dark on the net.
Does anyone have any info on this situation or do you know Don? I guess I'm wondering if there is any possibility of getting his entire website archived for future use?
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