Bob, the use of asymmetrical beams is like using your hi-beams on your car. The hi-beams basically light up the tree tops, so you would have to lower your beam into the ground so the top of the symmetrical beam does not shine into people's eyes. Asymmetrical beams have a very sharp cutoff. When I go down the bike path, all I see are people's legs. You can't even see their torso or head. Try walking down a path with a symmetrical beam and see how low you have to aim the beam so you can't see the torso of a walker coming up to you. I bet you will basically be aiming it at the ground a couple feet in front of you.
Toshi On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 9:42 AM Bob K. <bobk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use a Sinewave Beacon on and off-road and love it. Highly recommended! > > As an aside, I have read about symmetrical and asymmetrical beams before, > but I don’t really understand why I shouldn’t use a symmetrical beam > on-road. Isn’t the light still far less bright than, say, a car’s > headlights? Can’t I just aim the beam bit more at the ground than I would > off-road so it doesn’t shine in drivers’ eyes? I’m open to being way wrong > here, so any explanations are appreciated! > > Bob K. in Baltimore > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
