Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
Well, brackets from before LEDs were certainly sturdier, because the lights sucked so much power that it wasn't uncommon for them to have a few C cells in there. They weighed 10 times as much.
My first rear tail light I bought about 25 years ago, (before that I relied on reflectors), and that light ran on 2 AA's not C's.
Knog's, which I like to call No's have issues with their internals too, I bought two and both failed within a week of purchase from some sort of internal failure...but the mounts lasted the week! But I agree, the Knog mounts are bad but so are a bunch of others. Cygolite does do a decent job with their mounts, probably better then 99% of the manufactures out there, but even they have cheapened their mounts just not as much as others.