Would you buy these lights?
steveofshrops3478
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Ok, so the winter had come and the evenings are now longer. The gap between the end of work and darkness setting in has overlapped, and unless you have a decent set of lights, you're destined to ride at weekends only!
I wanted to get some lights, but wasn't happy with either the features of the cheap ones or the price of the good ones.
This gave me 1 final option. Develop my own.
Ok, so I now have a set of lights which out perform the 450 quid light and motions that you can get, with about 3 hours run time giving out 1300 lumens (stunning performance) and I am planning to add some more light level settings for increased burn time.
My question is, would the following be useful in a light?
It will monitor your speed, and brighten / dim depending on your speed. I.e, so if you're going up a climb at walking pace, you'll get say 40% light output, but if you're really going for it you get 100% light. Also, after you'd been stopped for, say 5 seconds, it would drop to about 125-20%. All in an effort to make the brightness settings autonomous.
Would this be a useful feature, or is it a case of over engineering which addresses a problem which doesn't exist?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Also, if you're interested in the lights, I could probablly make a few extra units to sell on. I think they would end up costing around the £100 mark.
I wanted to get some lights, but wasn't happy with either the features of the cheap ones or the price of the good ones.
This gave me 1 final option. Develop my own.
Ok, so I now have a set of lights which out perform the 450 quid light and motions that you can get, with about 3 hours run time giving out 1300 lumens (stunning performance) and I am planning to add some more light level settings for increased burn time.
My question is, would the following be useful in a light?
It will monitor your speed, and brighten / dim depending on your speed. I.e, so if you're going up a climb at walking pace, you'll get say 40% light output, but if you're really going for it you get 100% light. Also, after you'd been stopped for, say 5 seconds, it would drop to about 125-20%. All in an effort to make the brightness settings autonomous.
Would this be a useful feature, or is it a case of over engineering which addresses a problem which doesn't exist?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Also, if you're interested in the lights, I could probablly make a few extra units to sell on. I think they would end up costing around the £100 mark.
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