WOW…IceCAp is out of buisness…So much for reapair…
I heard they were bought out and moving to SC or something like that.
Where did you hear they are officially out of business?
Their web site is still up:
News to me. I wouldn’t be surprised though. If you buy out a company and still don’t answer the phone or e-mails for two months, it isn’t a good sign. Were did you hear the news?
I had a discussion about this at DPA. Someone was trying to sell off used Ice Cap equipment(660) and I said even though I have one I am juggling back and forth between systems because I need to get one repaired I probably wouldn’t buy a used one. Just prolonging the inevitable that I need to get another ballast.
I think I will be looking at getting out of the retrofit world and into some nicer fixtures. I want to try a small LED on my new nano I plan to set up in the next couple of months, but not sure I’ll have the funding just yet.
It's a shame, all there equipment was always nice, there light bulbs sucked but the ballasts work great.Everything made up until there last president stepped in a couple years ago was great. Then some new investor stepped in to make the company better… everything went down hill. 
I haven’t seen better ballast, reflectors, or end caps for T5s from another company yet. Though the 660s were a bit large and I always hopped for something smaller.
Glad I unloaded all my MH ballasts…Still have the 660’s…
My 660 works great thats the only thing I have from them, my ballast is old and fires everytime. Now that I've talked about it I'll go home tonight and it'll be fried. Thats my lucki liked their actinic bulbs, and the rep. who came to our meeting was great. sucks to hear that.
The actinics were the only bulbs I liked out of their whole T5 line.
Steven Pro - who came to our meeting last year - left the compant shortly after.
well, according to those articles, an investor bought their future cash flow/sales for a while. they will spend the next 5 months moving the factory down south to carolina. and continue . but without new products, they are losing market share to new products. and will probably fold,.
I like the idea of those Lumatek 250 MH ballasts. with the twist of the dial it can run a 150w or 175w or 250w lamp . you can change wattage lighting with just a new lamp socket and use the same ballast. Cheap up grade or down grade depending on your needs.
I wonder if we can get up a group buy and purchase the Icecap Co…
well, we could get a much better price now. they just folded. Plan B didnt work either.