Originally Posted by
Saving Hawaii
Well I'm hoping tonight's performance is just because the batteries haven't been broken in yet. From "fully charged" to "completely dead" in under 35 minutes is embarrassing. That's not even gonna cut it for my short commute.
Time to give this thing a little more time to figure it's act out before I figure out what to do with it.
The Saferide had a reputation of coming with somewhat defective batteries, if you read through forum reviews and amazon.com reviews. That's always been the cause - if you replace your AA batteries with decent batteries (Eneloops XX), you'll get 1-2 hours of runtime. Well...as long as you have your own charger. Seems that the built in charge in the Saferide is a little flaky to.
Though like I said, I think the Ixon IQ Premium is just plain a better light. You get 4-5 hours on the same batteries that would give you 1-2 hours on the Saferide, the built in charger has a better reputation, and as I believe it's a better beam as well. It has all the advantages you mentioned with the Saferide - evenly distributed shaped beam, beam cutoff on the horizon so your light isn't going into other people's eyes, etc etc.