I have had the Magicshine Headlight (not the torch but the headlight) for several months and I love it. I can't say enough good things about it. However, I had a little scare tonight on my commute home...

My ride is approx 40 minutes each way. Light worked fine on the way in, was fully charged from about 1 week ago. About 10 minutes into my ride home, the green button went red...and about 10 minutes later the light went totally dark. On an unlit, dark road.

Fortunately I have a backup light (a fenix L2D CE Q5, the "it" light of 2008) so I was able to limp home safely. But it was unnerving.

My understanding is that the MS light is supposed to have 3-4 hours of burn time, but clearly today it lasted less than an hour. I should add that although I like the light, I have not used it a ton and the battery has probably been through "only" about 15 charge cycles.

Any thoughts or suggestions?? I suppose I should charge up the battery and run the light again to see if it only lasts 1 hour again, or if today was maybe a fluke?

Doug

edit: I doubt this matters, but the temps today were approx 40F. Cool but not that bad.