As bleve has said, lights generally fall in to two categories, the see-me lights and the I-can-see lights.dgarry said:Hi all,
Just wondering are using for a front light for night time road riding .. I'm looking for a light so that I'm see and I can see with it also..
Any suggestions?
gumby said:I tend to believe a solid bright light is less visible than a flashing
light, but a combination works well. I have a couple of triple-LED
front lights that can be set to flashing or solid, tends to work pretty
well in combination with the rest. Easy switching between modes.
Even worse, I think, is 'blink' is too slow... some cyclists spend a good part of the time invisible because of this. If it is too slow for a glance to *always* see it, then it is impossible for a driver glancing in a mirror to see it.TimC said:On 2006-09-04, Artoi (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> dgarry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,Just wondering are using for a front light for night time road
>> riding.. I'm looking for a light so that I'm see and I can see with it
>> also..Any suggestions?ThanksDavid-- dgarry
>
> I was in the same boat recently. The key is how much light do you need
> to see.
>
> Riding in Sydney inner West, I bought a front white and rear red combo
> set and found it to be more than adequate. It's 5 white LEDs at the
> front and is good enough to supplement the street lighting up to 10m and
> it's clear enough for others to see. The rear red has 7 LEDs and has
> various flash pattern. The brand is called Basta. I think it's pretty
> widely available. The other advantage is that it runs on just 2 AA
> batteries for the front white. So it's relatively light.
Note that any flash pattern that doesn't simply flash all LEDs on then
all LEDs off, is next to useless.
If you alternately switch half on, then you simply are left with a
light half as bright, as from a distance, you can't pick the scanning
pattern.
I've seen lights that have 9 LEDs, and one of the patterns is to
continually scan up and down, a single LED at a time. So it's now 9
times less bright, and from 200m, you wouldn't be able to tell that it
is scanning at all -- it just appears as a constant light 9 times less
bright than what it should be.
--
TimC
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