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Battery Replacement on Lights with Internal Li-Ion Batteries
On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 12:50:27 AM UTC+1, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 2/11/2018 3:56 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 7:55:43 AM UTC-8, Joerg wrote: On 2018-02-10 18:25, John B. wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:25:57 -0500, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 2/10/2018 4:03 PM, Joerg wrote: Everyone installing a high-powered LED light on a bicycle, front or rear, should walk towards their lit bike during daylight and then again at night. If the light is annoying, do something about it. I agree with this. But I'd add, before buying high powered LED lights, check out any more ordinary lights you have in a similar way. Have a friend ride your bike as you observe. I've done this many times with friends. Contrary to current myths, you do not need super-powerful lights to be plenty visible. Any headlight that shows the road sufficiently will be perfectly visible to motorists, and taillights need far, far less power to make you safe. I had plenty of opportunity to compare StVZO tail lights versus the over there "illegal" lights such as PDW DangerZone or Radbot. HUGE difference in visibility. This was as a motorist in Germany. Since I am also a cyclist I paid particular attention to bicycle equipment because I wanted to know. I also wanted to see if the purchase of some lights from there would make sense since those wouldn't need electronics up front to connect to the 8.4VDC power bus on my bicycles. My conclusion was that it does not. Where is "there"? Are you saying that the PDW light was no good and you need a 8.4VDC tail light? At night, a watt or two is very conspicuous -- except in heavy rainstorms. The most conspicuous light I've every seen was this: https://tinyurl.com/yb5z9ep5 (minus the "beacon lights"). A woman with that jacket was riding east-west, and I was at a stop on a north-south street, and when my light hit her, I was practically blinded -- and it was only a 5-600 lumen light. My wife doesn't ride a night nearly as often as I do. She's most likely to do it when we're on vacations somewhere, as transportation to and from a B&B or something similar. But her "normal" (not just cycling) lightweight jacket is by Illuminite. It seems to reflect light very well - not that I consider that necessary. Our bikes have lights and reflectors that are perfectly fine. -- - Frank Krygowski I more than once said to runners and joggers that I, as a cyclist, rather have that they wear a reflective jacket then running around like a christmas tree. Lou |
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