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Peter Clinch wrote:
>> For now, if you want a "safe and efficient bicycle lighting system"
>> that's reasonably priced you have to go the battery route.
>
> With the caveat of moving them about between bikes noted, the above
> sentence is very much For Some Values Of "have to".
I tend to agree with the statement on Peter White's web site "Only Busch
& Muller makes a 12 volt dynamo that meets the German StVZO requirements
for safe and efficient bicycle lighting system."
I guess it depends on whether you believe that the German requirements
are reasonable. In my extensive experience with German safety agencies,
Germany is very stringent about this sort of product, much more so than
agencies such as British Standards or the U.S. and Canadian agencies.
I've only worked with TUV, not the StVZO (Germany's traffic safety
department), but the thoroughness extends across agencies.
>> For now, if you want a "safe and efficient bicycle lighting system"
>> that's reasonably priced you have to go the battery route.
>
> With the caveat of moving them about between bikes noted, the above
> sentence is very much For Some Values Of "have to".
I tend to agree with the statement on Peter White's web site "Only Busch
& Muller makes a 12 volt dynamo that meets the German StVZO requirements
for safe and efficient bicycle lighting system."
I guess it depends on whether you believe that the German requirements
are reasonable. In my extensive experience with German safety agencies,
Germany is very stringent about this sort of product, much more so than
agencies such as British Standards or the U.S. and Canadian agencies.
I've only worked with TUV, not the StVZO (Germany's traffic safety
department), but the thoroughness extends across agencies.