Originally Posted by
Road Fan
Captsven, the vibration with my SON is nowhere near strong enough to cause numbness or affect bike control.
The "vibration" is a mild hum-hum-hum when the light is turned on (my diy light has a switch beside the brake lever), that only happens on my steel commuter with Shimano dynamo. It doesn't happen on my aluminium touring bike or my carbon/aluminium road bike, same dynamo.
Originally Posted by
Road Fan
Znomit: You mentioned a "a highly tuned DIY light." What does this mean? High current? Very large input or stand light capacitors? or what? I could imagine higher current causing more intense cogging.
I believe he's talking about the variants of diy light circuits made from this site.
http://pilom.com/BicycleElectronics/DynamoCircuits.htm
Very very bright with 6 leds setup, brighter than anything in market, great for mountain biking or for people who don't care about road specific beam pattern.
Originally Posted by
Bluechip
I've never actually felt anything through the bars. I plan on building up another SP hub for my CAAD9. It will be interesting to see if it's noticeable on the much lighter and responsive bike.
On my Specialized E5, it's not noticeable.