If you only use this bike in July and August in northern places >>LOL, sure don't get a dyno. It gets dark at 7:30 at 35d lattitude, like AZ CA. I went to Vietnam in winter, it was dark at 5:30. NOT having a dyno is LAUGHABLE, especially in rain. Last fall I had my other old bike on a car trip from Aug. 16 to Oct.16. The last month it was dark at 6:30, so it didn't get used. Pathetic life battery lights actually cost way MORE than my dyno.
I bought my SA XL-FDD dyno drum brake in 2012. It has 24,000 trouble free miles with a new bearing at 17,000. Lights are always ON. The brake is like FREE, ZERO service.
This is by FAR the best thing I have EVER bought.
I still don't have a battery pack. It takes 4 hours to charge everything at a hotel.
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Plus my biggest peeve, is after 20 years there is still NO progress. The said life is still 7 hours.
And they are still 5V instead of 6V/ 1.25 vs 1.5V.... WTF Does Eveready have a patent on 1.5V??? The difference in usability is HUGE. Maybe somebody can point out the insider info??
Last edited by GamblerGORD53; 04-01-20 at 09:47 AM.