Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
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.
Yeah. Honestly, 30 minutes was just a huge disappointment. When I saw it jump to "get me home mode" after less than half an hour I was pretty disappointed. The fact that it went completely dead as I was unlocking my door was no good.
I shipped it back to Amazon as a return today. Good luck to somebody else. Submitted an order for a Ixon IQ Premium. Looking forward to seeing it soon.