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New B&M 100lux headlight.
On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 4:00:54 AM UTC+1, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 06:46:01 -0800, sms wrote: Yes. The trade-off needs to be made. I'm sure we'd all run out and buy a dynamo light if it was possible to build one that was adequate for the riding conditions we experience. Unfortunately it isn't yet possible to build such a dynamo light. Good grief, Steven. What bull**** you spout. There are people around the world riding pefectly contentedly all night long on bikes with dynamo lights- and have been for decades, even before the advancements of LEDs and computer designed mirrors and lenses. Now, for some reason *you* don't find those satisfactory. That's fine. But that's about you and your preferences, not about the lights themselves. I have several dynamo-equipped bicycles, and even the one with a top-of-the-line dynamo light requires a battery powered light as well for many situations. "Top of the line" being what, specifically? My bikes have: (A) a B&M 3w halogen lamp powered by a Sanyo BB generator. This is the lamp I rode across rural and urban Minnesota and France with. Worked fine. Better in the countryside than in town, where it gets washed out a bit by streetlights, headlights, etc. I still use it frequently on my commuter bike, for which it works well enough in urban Minnesota. I'd like it to be a smidge brighter. Hence: (B) a Schmidt eDelux powered by a Schmidt SON 28. I bought this a few years ago. Works great. The beam could be, as you and some other critics have noted, a bit wider. It's never inconvenienced me in terms of running into problems, just feels a little claustrophobic at 20+ mph. Hence: (C) a forthcoming eDelux II (if it ever gets here, for Pete's sake shipping is slow this time of year), to be powered by a Velological generator. Looking forward to checking this out. Prior to A, B and C I had built a 12v headlamp using an MR16, like many tinkerers do. It put out a lot of bright light, much of which went to waste. Visibility was not as good as with A and definitely worse than B. The circular beam resulted in inadequate performance. As with the improvements with automobile headlights, bike headlights have come a very long way from the glorified flashlights many espouse. Tim I use a SON Delux dyno with a EdeluxII headlamp for my winter nightrides on roads. I can't understand why people consider this combination as not sufficient for road riding (off road is a different story) but I don't have the illusion that I can convince Mr Scharf as he can't convince me of using a battery powered light that I have to charge after every 2 hr ride. Lou |
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