Bike light reincarnation
Feb. 1st, 2009 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI did some playing around with it yesterday, and it turns out that the problem with my old HID bike light was just that the switch was broken, so it actually works OK. But in any case, I am still happy with the change to the new one. I tried powering them both up in a dark room this morning, and the results are basically that in the area where I want the light thrown, they're both pretty comparable, in fact the new LED is a bit brighter. The difference is that the HID splashes a lot of light all over the place. With the LED covered, the whole room is pretty well lit; with the HID covered, just that spot is lit, with a little spill (and also my hand is getting hot quickly; the HID is tossing out a lot of IR apparently).
Also, the HID takes 60 seconds to come up to full power, and has no flash modes or power levels, it's on or off. In all I'll stick with the LED. If nothing else, it weighs a fraction of what the other one does, takes up less room and I don't spend any time messing with it to keep it going.
Also, the HID takes 60 seconds to come up to full power, and has no flash modes or power levels, it's on or off. In all I'll stick with the LED. If nothing else, it weighs a fraction of what the other one does, takes up less room and I don't spend any time messing with it to keep it going.
