Originally Posted by
campngolf
Last night while waiting for my wife got out of the office, a guy on a bike pulled up to a store across the parking lot. What caught my eye was the small LED lights he had on several of his spokes. They were very attention-getting. When he parked his bike and went into the store, the lights went off automatically and when he came out and got back on his bike the light turned on automatically. I've seen similar lights but nothing that has this auto feature.
Does anybody have an idea on what these lights might be? I wish I had gone over and asked him about them.
If you want spoke lights you don't want the kind that turn on automatically ( when motion is sensed ). The reason I say that is because I had a pair of those and found out that when they are in stand-by mode ( no light ) they are still drawing battery power and will ( slowly ) discharge the batteries. Since the small button cells don't really have a large capacity this is not a good idea.
Currently I am using the
Atozi spoke lights. These work very well and easily turn off by just twisting ( no discharge in off mode ). I've been using them since summer and just recently tried them on a cold night just to see if they would still function. With new batteries the units worked in the cold without problem. I purchased a card of one hundred of the small button cells from a Chinese website. Each unit takes three cells so I should be good for a good long time. I use two on each wheel