Cateye automatic tail light?
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@ThermionicScott, I'm not convinced a steady taillight is sufficient for me to be seen. I also use a battery-powered blinky taillight. It needs charging only once a month or so, and that is a lot less burdensome than charging a headlight. I charge it every month or so, but I don't even know how long I can run it without charging it. A decent battery-powered headlight needs charging every two days, and that's cutting it too close for me, so a dynamo-powered headlight is a huge win for me.
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@ThermionicScott, I'm not convinced a steady taillight is sufficient for me to be seen. I also use a battery-powered blinky taillight. It needs charging only once a month or so, and that is a lot less burdensome than charging a headlight. I charge it every month or so, but I don't even know how long I can run it without charging it. A decent battery-powered headlight needs charging every two days, and that's cutting it too close for me, so a dynamo-powered headlight is a huge win for me.
Battery-powered lights are truly amazing these days, and perhaps if I quantified how long they lasted on a charge, and then kept track of it, I'd always know exactly how many hours of run time I had left. But I already keep track of too much stuff.
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@ThermionicScott, exactly how I feel. I could ride one evening, knowing I charged the battery yesterday and I should be fine. And then it conks out, and I remember, oops, I charged it the day before yesterday. That's not OK. I kinda-sorta know the charge state of my light, but that's not good enough. With a dynamo-powered light, I absolutely know it's going to work as long as the bike rolls. That's a huge difference (for me) from kinda-sorta knowing.
At the moment, my commuter bike doesn't have its dynamo lights installed. Long story. I am using a B&M Ixon Core headlight. It always shows the charge state, which helps. It has a 1-5 readout. And as far as I can tell, it seems to be able to go three or four days between charges, so my extra layer of safety is my practice to recharge it every two days.
At the moment, my commuter bike doesn't have its dynamo lights installed. Long story. I am using a B&M Ixon Core headlight. It always shows the charge state, which helps. It has a 1-5 readout. And as far as I can tell, it seems to be able to go three or four days between charges, so my extra layer of safety is my practice to recharge it every two days.
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That's a nice feature, @noglider. My battery taillights did/do gradually get dimmer as the batteries die, so it's not that I had no indication.
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That's a nice feature, @noglider. My battery taillights did/do gradually get dimmer as the batteries die, so it's not that I had no indication.
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Yeah, I should have said "warning" instead of "indicator." I could judge whether my old 2xAA Cateye (RIP) needed new batteries by whether it hurt to look straight at it. I still had plenty of time after that was no longer the case, but it got me thinking ahead.
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You look straight at your light to see if it hurts? Oy, stop that.
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