Profoto Plastic Transport Cap for ProHeads and Acute/D4 Heads

Got a set of Acute heads sans caps, I know the original design was thin and prone to cracking. These are robust thicker plastic with a snug fit that feels very secure! (the flash tube is 617 and dome glass are 277 bucks to replace so you decide if the 30 dollars each for these are worth the insurance) Would buy again and again but they do add up, ouch :)

Purchased this to replace the cracked cap on a Pro head - I expected the same old cover but this one is much improved: better fit, harder plastic, and more robust feel overall. I didn't realize this was something that needed improvement, but it's a nice upgrade and I'm confident my glass dome and bulb are safer in this newly redesigned transport cap.

It may seem trivial to get excited about a cap, but this is a nice upgrade from the older model of these. For those who may not know, both these new caps and old caps are not designed to fit flush onto your Profoto light with glass dome, but stop in such a way as to leave a couple of inches of space inside, to basically act as a cushion or crumple zone if you should drop your light. Nothing wrong with that, but by the time you add everything on to a D2 or B1X (which are about a half inch longer than the older D1's), then your entire light with cap becomes about 17 inches long, making it very difficult to find an appropriate case to fit them in. These new ones fit on a little different, and better. If you stand it side by side to the old one, it's only about a 1/4 shorter. But in the way it fits on, the whole light assembly actually ends up being almost 3/4 inch shorter, making it easier to fit in more cases. The flat top helps a lot with that, too, vs. the old rounded top. Also, the stoppers inside are more substantial where they make contact with the rim of your light, making the whole thing stronger if you were to put the weight of these lights on the cap end standing vertically (though this is probably not recommended). Finally, these look nicer, with more of a matte finish that perfectly matches the the finish of the flat caps that ship with their monolights.

I think if they were slightly smaller or the bag slightly bigger it would work well. Right now they are a tight fit.