Description
- Aircraft grade aluminum
- Included headlamp bracket
- Conical belt
- Adjustable angle
- Easy to use performance buckle
- Large buttons
- USB Type-C charging port (charging cable included)
- Low, medium, high, and blinking modes
- Sturdy low-profile aluminum bracket included
- Illuminated battery light indicator
- 8-24 hours burn time
- IPX7 Waterproof rating
Weight: 8.5oz (241g)
Colors: Black/Red
Sizing Range: 26″-38″
Technologies-
Low Weight™: Lightweight components and materials create an almost unnoticeable on-the-body feel without compromising durability.
Steady Beam™: Prevents eye fatigue by maintaining a steady lumen output that does not dim until the battery is very low.
Race Fit™: Conical shape, fatigue free buckles, and limited stretch elastic ensure a snug and stable fit which promotes a healthy and natural breathing pattern.
Stable Ride™: Proportional weight distribution combined with our conical belt shape create balanced load and a no-bounce ride.
Fatigue Free™: Intuitive settings, large buttons, and quick release buckles. Easy operation for fatigued minds in extreme circumstances.
AutoCool™: Heat dispersing fins mounted in and around the light passively dissipate heat, keeping the light cool and efficient during heavy use.
Widebeam™: Like daylight. Let your eyes roam freely without adjusting between light and dark areas. Even lighting eliminates headaches and tunnel vision.
Enduralight™: Sturdy construction and aircraft grade aluminum provide better durability and improved hot and cold tolerance while reducing overall weight.
PerfectAngle™: Easily adjust up, straight, or down to suit your terrain. Illuminate your path while keeping your head and body in a natural running position.
Logan Hutton –
LOVE this light. Used it for my first 16 mile night but and was so impressed. I wore it with my Speedgoat waist pack and I didn’t even know I had it on. It’s very comfortable and light weight. This is the first time I used a waist light. I previously used a 500 lumen head lamp which only would burn for 4 hours on high. I like that this is brighter and I won’t have to change out the battery during mid run. It is so bright I was very impressed.
Michael Lemon (verified owner) –
Great light. Lights up the trail like no other! Also so comfortable I don’t even notice I’m wearing it.
John Borton (verified owner) –
Been ultra distance night running on very technical terrain now for over a decade.
As a ‘safety over speed’ policy, I will hike, but never run in this terrain relying on a single light. I’ve had too many lights over my lifetime go out with no warning to trust my safety to only one source. For me it’s always been a quality headlamp plus one other light source.
As is well known, headlamps produce no terrain shadows, which is in and of itself a serious danger while running technical terrain. I tried waist-lamps a decade ago (which at that time were really just headlamps around the waist) and the light movement in my peripheral vision really made me nauseous. I settled for a hand torch (with a hand band) as my second light source and was reasonably happy for many years.
This year, I took up trail running with poles for the first time. I find I can save my legs for later by engaging my upper body on steep uphills and perform better late in the run. This of course rules out a hand torch … now, how to sort out the motion sensitivity so I don’t get sick to my stomach.
I tried the Kogalla RA. While I thought it’s broad lighting might solve my problem (it was the moving contrast at the edges of the old waist light beams that caused my nausea), turns out the Kogalla casts *too* wide of a beam – my arm/hand motion while running creates a repetitive, moving shadow problem which was worse than the original.
Enter the Solstice 800. For me, it has the *perfect* beam angle which places the bouncing transition between the light and the dark far enough out in my peripheral vision that my brain doesn’t pick up in it, while also keeping my hand/arms from breaking the beam as I run. Combine with my headlamp and now I get the best of all worlds in hand free lighting.
A top notch, well made light. I gave it 5 stars (deserved), but I still have a couple gripes and a suggestion for future models:
Like most of my other headlamps, it has a single button control set – the Solstice however seems to be less well thought out than my other lights.
1: No ‘Power Lockout’ — often, a press/hold of 5 seconds or so puts a headlamp power button into lockout which then requires something more than a simple press to turn the light back on. This is great protection from an unintended meltdown in your pack if the button gets hit by stray pack contents.
2: Once you turn the light on, you should be able to rotate through the LOW/MID/HIGH settings without also rotating through the strobe and OFF functions. Having to turn the light OFF to go from high back to low is frustrating as heck (let alone having to screw with your night vision as you pass through the strobe).
3: Related to the above (but slightly different), once the light has been set and ON for some seconds, the button ‘rotate through’ behavior changes to a simple OFF behavior. One simple push turns the light off and then you start from scratch with the “start” behavior (see #2 above). Let’s suppose I’ve been on technical terrain and have been using the HIGH setting. I hit a smooth fire road and to save battery want LOW. I have no option but to press the button and the light goes OFF. Then I hit it again and it comes up in MID (default). Now I have to rotate through both the strobe and the OFF to get back to LOW. That’s right, if *while running* I want to go from HIGH to LOW I will have to go through the strobe function once, AND the light will go black twice.
Just buy a Zebra or a Skilhunt headlamp and copy their button behaviors … it’s not patented or copyrighted. Making my light go black once (let alone twice) to adjust while running freaking sucks. Nuff said.
Not a beef, but a suggestion — make the USB-C input charge port also an output. This then means that the 21700 battery (thanks for the battery upsize) can also be used as an emergency power bank to charge a watch/heart monitor, etc. To accomplish this task, I purchased a separate, one cell, 21700 powerbank which I can keep in my vest. My suggestion would allow the powerbank on the back of the Solstice belt to act as both. Light at night …. powerbank in day.
Thanks for the killer light. Well done.
Lori Smith –
The Solstice 800 is the best. I bought it because I had 2 ultras that took place in remote mountain areas that can be very dark. It did its job, in fact at one race a fellow runner waited for me because he could see I had brighter lighting than him and he was having a hard time following trail markings. It is so lightweight, especially if you put the battery pack in the side pocket of your Ultaspire Zygos pack. I find it really help at dusk or dawn, because is a waist belt it lights up shadow areas that hide trip hazards.
bonni (verified owner) –
great light, bright, easy to use