Commuting - Anyone using the new Planet Bike Super Spot LED headlight?

Has anyone bought the new Super Spot 1W LED headlight that Planet Bike introduced this year?

http://www.planetbike.com/images2/3031.jpg

Any comments on the light? I've been tempted to buy one but would like to see some reviews first.
$34.99 almost seems like a bargain considering it's using Gen. III 1W Luxeon Star LED technology.

No, but go down to an LBS and test it against others in it's class on display and you can tell real fast. Then if it does do better then test it for kicks against the lower costing bottle battery type of halogen light. I cannot imagine it being brighter than a inexpensive light like the Cygo Metro that uses 2 beams for a total of 13 watts; but technology is improving all the time. The Metro is only about $46 dollars and it totally overwhelmed the Cateye EL300 with either the flood or spot. For the extra $12 I got a much better light.

I got a 12V power pack from an auto parts store for $20 and added a $12 20W halogen landscape lamp from a hardware store. Great light and rechargeable battery for $32.

I upgraded to include a 20W halogen MR-16 bulb and a 35W MR-16 bulb with a bright red truck marker LED and a bright yellow xenon strobe for the rear, all connected to the $20 12V power pack, for about $50 more. Nobody is more visible than I am. I added a 12V car horn for another $18 (about 2/3 the price of an Air Zound bicycle air horn.) It's amazing the possibilities a 12V battery will open up.

http://nordicgroup.us/s78/

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, I wanted to post a report on this light and figured I might as well put it here.

In case anyone cares, I rode with this light for the first time today. Their claim of being "as bright as a 10W halogen" doesn't quite pan out; however, in the middle of the spot beam, the light is about as bright as a 10W halogen. In other words, the halogen puts out more light, but it's spread around; this light puts out a spot that's good with less light around the outside. This light has a complex pattern, there's a spot beam in the middle which is oblong (flat) and relatively bright, and dimmer bands of light around that.

Bottom line: it's bright enough for me to use as an only light on my commute in total darkness, but just barely, and if the road is rough, I'd really rather have a bit more light. I have some gravel on my route, covered with snow and washboarded, and after 5 minutes of that, I gave up and turned on my 20W halogen as well. If you were on decent pavement, this light would be fine, IMHO. I plan to use it as my main light in the future, especially if I am staying off the gravel (which means I take a longer route).

It would also totally OK as a "be seen" light or as an emergency headlight/camp light for summer touring.

I have built my own Luxeon 3Watt LED. It runs off a generator well enough but likes a boost from the batteries of the Cateye, Must have a full wave rectifier and power supply ($25) and heat sink. The generator runs off the face of the tyre not the side and is hardly noticeable so I'm thinking of doubling up with a second generator which should allow for the losses of the power supply etc.

It's real bright! The proof will be when the cars dip their lights at me. ;)

Cheers BB

I have the cateye EL500, which uses the same 1 watt luxeon LED.
Compared to my 11watt light & motion low beam, with a nice reflector, the thing looks like a candle stick.
There's 1 spot about a foot wide at a distance of 20-30 feet that barely reaches the brightness of the 11watt halogen, except the halogen lights up an area 160 degrees in front of me.

I may try to build my own light this year. I returned one that cost me about $200 because first, it didn't quite fit my handlebars, and second, it stopped working after a couple of months. It shorted, so sometimes, it would turn on and off.

I just can't believe bike lights cost more than car lights. I've had it.

Koffee