Battery Replacement on Lights with Internal Li-Ion Batteries

On 2018-02-08 14:08, Ian Field wrote:


"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message
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On 2/8/2018 2:59 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-02-06 18:56, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 2/6/2018 1:52 PM, sms wrote:
My wife's Lezyne Deca 1500XXL stopped taking a charge, at all. Taking
it apart, I saw that the batteries were made in July 2015. Not too
good for it to stop working that soon.

Some of my bikes have dynamos that are 30 years old. They just keep
going and going and going...


Until you get to a red traffic light, to a stop sign or into a
traffic jam. The perfect spot at night to get hit by a car driver who
didn't see you because you were on the only unlit vehicle around.

Yes, Joerg, we know: "Danger! Danger!"

First, I've been riding regularly at night since roughly 1977. The
event you describe has never come close to happening to me. At a red
light or stop sign, the motorists behind me are coming to a stop
anyway; plus my bike has reflectors.

Recently found what was left of a rear-ended bicycle chucked on the
grass verge not far from traffic lights last time I went to the next town.


Out here there is usually a cross, flowers and the surviving front wheel
leaned against it.

It always amazes me how many cyclists are on roads after dusk and in
dreary weather without even a blinking light in back. Or with one where
the batteries are most likely already oozing.

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Regards, Joerg

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