Exposure lights

greasedscotsman
greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
edited October 2009 in Road buying advice
I have a set of Exposure lights for a few years now and they dont seem to me to be as strong/powerful as when I first bought them. So is there some sort of fall off in battery power with repeated usage?

I was thinking of getting something else, so am I better off getting another light to suppliment my current light or sell what I have and get something more powerful?

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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Ride with someone who has the P7 or Magicshine torch and see if you fancy that ?

    How many lumens are your exposure lights ?
  • term1te
    term1te Posts: 1,462
    I think rechargeable batteries do have a useful life, so maybe yours are beginning to loose it? I bought some rechargeable AA batteries recently that claimed to be good for 500 charges, so I guess after that they'll start to go down hill.

    I've thought my lights have been loosing power recently, but have come to the conclusion that everyone else's have just got brighter. I was convinced a motorbike was coming towards me in the dark this morning, turned out to be someone with dynamo lighting, I was nearly blinded.
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  • nferrar
    nferrar Posts: 2,511
    The Exposures use Li-ion batteries which degrade over time (my late 2007 ones are still fine though). It's why a lot of laptop manufacturers only warranty batteries for 1 year even if you get a 3 year warranty on the rest of the system.

    Pretty sure you can send the lights back to them for battery replacement but it will likely cost more than a magicshine from Dealextreme (which will be a lot brighter to), you would lose cable-free design though.
  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    Send them back to Exposure for a new battery and they will either offer you a new or
    reconditioned battery, or a huge discount on one of their new range of lights. The same
    thing happened to me and I took the discount on the Exposure Enduro. I only paid £155
    instead of the rrp of £275.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Not sure how many lumens, but having just got home and checked, I got them in 2005, so maybe the battery is a bit tired. Will have to contact them to see if I can get a new battery or maybe a new set.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Its up to you - but £155 would buy about 3 Magicshine lights - and the specs look pretty similar - lumens and run time wise anyway.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    cougie wrote:
    Its up to you - but £155 would buy about 3 Magicshine lights - and the specs look pretty similar - lumens and run time wise anyway.

    Interesting idea, is it better to have three units, so if one fails you have two backup or one unit which is neater. Think the first thing to check is what will Exposure offer...
  • Dazzza
    Dazzza Posts: 2,364
    http://www.troutie.com/mainpage.html
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  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Expensive. For that money you can get a trout light and for £50 you get a Magicshine.
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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    Term1te wrote:
    I think rechargeable batteries do have a useful life, so maybe yours are beginning to loose it? I bought some rechargeable AA batteries recently that claimed to be good for 500 charges, so I guess after that they'll start to go down hill.
    You can easily cook your batteries in 10 charges if using a "dumb" (as opposed to a "smart"/"intelligent") charger that charges based on a timer. I got through a set of 16 pretty quickly this way, before I saw the light!

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