Originally Posted by
mechBgon
I have a Supernova E3 Pro, and its standlight is so weak that it's on par with a keychain light powered by a button battery. It makes sense to me to have a battery-powered light, preferably with an indiscriminate "shotgun" beam pattern, to help show up in environments like this:
I have to make a left turn here. Not a good place for a headlight that drops to 10% power when stopped.
"10% of it's power when it's stopped" sounds like an exaggeration...however, regardless of what main front light I was using in those conditions, dynamo or high powered battery light, I would be running a second blinking front light anyways to identify me as a bike and be a little more eye-catching. I wouldn't want to rely on an "steady" light to be seen under those conditions, there's just to many other bright conflicting light sources.