Originally Posted by
michaelnel
Where I ride, anything you leave attached to the bike without being locked is subject to being quickly stolen. I need a taillight that puts out a lot of attention-getting light and is still quickly and easily removable and pocketable. Your bike would be stripped within 15 minutes if you parked it in San Francisco. And they wouldn't do it neatly.
Where in SF? Perhaps I've been fortunate, but most of my travels are on the western half of the city and I've left a PB Blaze, my PDW DZ, and a Niterider MiNewt on the bike before for about an hour in outer Richmond and Sunset on many occasions. If I'm at Ocean Beach Safeway, that's different though.
Originally Posted by
michaelnel
I think the only way a DZ is going to get 50 hours of runtime is if it is running in the OFF mode. I ran mine on a pair of freshly charged 800mAh NiMH cells and it finally shut itself down at about 20 hours. It was pretty feeble during the last 5 hours or so.
I'm surprised it lasted that long. With only about 5 to 7 hours of riding with the light in strobe, I'm putting 300-400mAH into the batteries, Sanyo Eneloops, according to my charger. As such, I recharge the batteries every week so there is no doubt whether or not I have good batteries.
Originally Posted by
no1mad
Yep. Just checked the PDW site- 50 hrs on the DZ and 30 for the Radbot 1000.
DZ will not last more than 12 or 15 hours with any useful amount of output. Not with NiMH at least. Alkalines might be different, but will be more costly in the long run.