Due to the nature of the LED Blinkies, to be very bright without
using a lot of energy, they need to be focused in a rather tight beam
angle. This means for the blinkie to be effective they need to be
carefully aimed at what you want to see them. That being said, LED
Blinkies should be rigidly mounted on the seatpost, seatstay,
chainstay, or the rear of your rack. Then make sure they are aimed
so they are pointed back at the drivers. I've seen many backpack
mounted blinkies that the rider doesn't need to worry about any
planes landing on them, but you have to be right on top of them
before you see it from a ground level view. :-)
Kerry Kunsman
San Diego, CA
At 11:10 AM 11/14/2012, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
I've asked this before to no response, but from the scuttlebutt
there must be answers out there onlist. I've tried clipping blinkies
of all sorts (including my most recent ones whose maker and model I
forget, but that are even brighter than the PB Blaze 1/2W) and each
time I decide that the visible effect is too compromised the
less-than-optimum and uncontrollable viewing angle caused by the
floppiness of the strap, flap, and by variations in flap angle due
to load or lack thereof. When I tried this new blinkie recently on
the unladen Sackville, it ended up pointing down at about ~35-40
degrees, so that the effect was considerably diminished over a fixed
mounting keeping the lens at slightly more than 90* to the road.
Again, a strobe works, but they also eat batteries too fast.
Anyone?
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