kuan

I might just have to get four Sette Glos at that price.

What would be nice is a light source that can be used by motor vehicles to judge distance. Flashers are nice but sometimes they just confuse drivers.

ItsJustMe

That's why the Dinotte patterns are so nice. bright flash over steady lower brightness.

Or you can run multiple lights, one on steady. That's what I did before I got the Dinotte.

Giro

Well, it also has the usual S-O-S mode, but that is a bit too slow a flash rate.

I'm awaiting details on the Geoman/Magicshine tail light. If it would only combine the PB Superflash's pattern + DiNotte/Ultrafire-501 lumens (with lower lumens selectable) + side lighting of some of the lights in this thread + price under ~$40 ... but that is probably unrealistic at present.

ItsJustMe

I personally don't like AAAs. They have very little power, less than half that of a AA. I preferred the Cateye TL-LD1xxx. I haven't seen the newer models, and now that I have a Dinotte I probably wouldn't get one anyway. But I'd always have preferred the lights to be a tiny bit larger to take AAs and last 2.5x longer.

ccd rider

The specs for the LD1100 with AA's are the same as the Superflash with AAA's, 100 hours on flash. On constant, the Superflash claims 80 hours.....while the LD1100 says 50. There are more LED's to run with LD1100 I presume, so that should be taken into account. But as far as comparing the light as a whole to the AAA versions were talking about in this thread, it isn't accurate to claim it lasts 2.5x longer.

ItsJustMe

OK, it'll last 2.5x times given the same light design. The problem now is that manufacturers only seem to use AAs for lights that put out a lot of power.

My problem is that I don't want to have to keep track of and carry spares for two different kinds of batteries, and most of my devices use AAs. It's kind of a pain to carry another pair of batteries just for that one light.

preston811

How do you mount that? And it's not really $10 if someone's gotta buy an 18650 and a charger and a mount.. Interesting though

ccd rider

There's a cure for that pain. Get two rear AAA blinkies (in fact you could get 3 of the Sette Glo's for the price of one LD1100). You're still "carrying" an extra set in a sense, but you get the benefit of extra lighting for safety as well (perhaps have one that flashes and one that's solid). You can even stagger the batteries placement in the respective lights to ensure always having one set fresher than the other.

Redundancy=good.

Mr Zippy

I've been very happy with one of these. Just got another one as I've recently had batteries die on me halfway through a ride, so now I'll have two rear lights and two head lights, and won't get stuck at night riding without a light.

https://www.fibreflare.com/

ChrisO

I used the Mars 4.0 and found the button to be frustrating, I just couldn't feel/press it without dismounting my bike (seatpost mounted); it is priced right and bright and eye-catching though. Switched to the Radbot100 from Portland Design Works and love it- super easy to find/actuate the button and it's brighter than the Mars.