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Old 11-07-11 | 09:46 PM
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lopek77
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From: lower mitten

Bikes: With round 700c & 26" wheels

Ok...I'm ready to give you my short review about Magicshine clone light I got and wrote about in previous posts.
My two cell battery pack (regular one is 4 cell) lasted around 2 hours. About 1 hour on low (very bright) and about 1 hour on high (crazy bright)
It wasn't fully charged, so I may get another 30-60 minutes of light when fully charged.
The mount (nut holding everything in place ), broke today after second use, when I was putting it on another bike. I fixed it using regular nut.
Its also incompatibile with fatter mountain bike handlebars, not impossible to use it , but hard to make it right.
There is a main switch on the light with led inside, and when power goes down it will blink red (it's not a good idea to drain complatelly this type of batteries)

It shines really well for quarter, half a mile? with great trow and flood, covering everything far, close and up (low hanging brenches)

Since my mount is not fully functional anymore, I bought replacement mount base for the original Magicshine light from Geomangear.com, and two rubber mounting rings (small and big) from Ebay seller.

I'm still very happy with tghe light and I highly recommend it, as a quite cheap and really good light.


UPDATE
People are NOT happy seeing me on the trail when dark... ;-)

New mount base installed, with some modifications to it to fit power cable. $6 and 5 minutes...DONE
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