The light is surprisingly good. Not an illuminate-the-night light,
but adequate for dark roads where other lights won't be
competing with it much.
The EL-300 could never quite see far enough ahead and made you ride
slowly; this has a good beam shape, one lane wide at about the
distance you need to see at to clip along at good speed, and
a feeling that you're getting more than occasional individual
photons back.
The light is amazingly packaged, very small for the contents; even
the box is quite a work of design (you can open it without tearing
but it may take a while to figure it out).
It's still a tunnel-vision experience but good enough to ride fast by
on a good road, where you only need to know where the lane is in
spite of occasional oncoming cars.
I'll keep my two HL-1500's on the handlebars too, for the heavy
city traffic parts of the trip, or the pothole segment, but mostly
I can turn them off and just use this baby. It says it runs 30
hours, against 3 for the HL-1500's. All use 4 AA's.
It's about the brightness of a HL-1500 on ``half'' power, but that's a lot
less than half the brightness of a HL-1500; I'd been mostly
running them on half power to stretch the battery time to cover
the full trip though.
(``Tunnel-vision experience - you're frequently reminded of
places you grew up, because you see so little at once that only
one feature has to match to get an association to kick in. That
doesn't happen with brighter lights.)
--
Ron Hardin
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