On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:30:02 AM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: > 1. The best headlight without regarding anything but brightness, beam > width, and standlight longevity? > > 2. The best ditto made with a metal case? (For me, the metal case would be > a purely cosmetic advantage, but I like pretty.) >
I put the Supernova E3 Pro 2 on my newest bike, and I've been very happy with it except the stand light isn't as bright as I'd like. It's extremely well built, I especially like the mount that came with it, and the tail light is excellent, as well. I've always been happy with my Edelux and happier with the Edelux II. I was riding a brevet at night with two others, all of us with the Edelux, and with three of us side-by-side you would have thought we had a car with high beams on. I agree the narrow beam can be a problem reading street signs. A helmet-mounted light can help with that (and with reading cue sheets!). For charging, I set up my newest bike with coax wiring and quick-connectors. I have a Sinewave Revolution that I can attach in place of the lights. If you are powering your lights, you really don't have enough left to charge anything else, so I also carry a USB battery that can recharge any devices (phone, Wahoo) and can be recharged by the dynamo. While Supernova says you can't power the lights from a battery, I find that it works sufficiently - the headlight isn't full brightness, but it's enough to be seen. So, in theory, my setup allows me to charge a battery or device while running lights from a battery. Or, to run the lights by battery and not have the dynamo drag on a long uphill :-). My power bank allows simultaneous use and charging, so I _could_ send the dynamo output to the battery and have the battery powering the lights, but that would be inefficient, and it's pretty cheap and not much weight to carry multiple batteries. I haven't done a long trip to test this out, yet. Ted Durant Milwaukee, WI USA -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/bbc16ebf-60f9-4ad3-9c66-0fe81dc9bd43n%40googlegroups.com.
