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Old 11-22-10 | 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by BarracksSi
^^^ There's a big difference between scatter and direct light. Crouch down in front of a car headlight to see what I mean.
Do the same with a light that is putting out less than half of what a car does. What's that prove? I agree that there is a big difference between scatter and direct beam. The complaints about bicycle lights are be about scatter, not about the direct beam. Why else would the highly focused beam crowd use the old saw of '50% of light from conical beams is wasted'? Wasted where? To scatter...or so they think.
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