More About Lights

On 3/6/2017 1:47 PM, wrote:

I notice that a large number of the people in our group have flashing red rear lights and it isn't long before these batteries run down enough that the taillight even blinking is almost entirely unnoticeable. So I don't have much respect for battery power for a great deal of use.

When the first twinkling LED taillights (by Vistalight) came out in the
1990s, people were very impressed by how visible they made a bike.
Bikes were visible up to half a mile away, and AA batteries in those
units last months.

Since then, "safety inflation" has proclaimed that they're insufficient
because they're too dim. Now you need a taillight so bright that it
blinds following riders. Of course those consume much more electricity.

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- Frank Krygowski