Originally Posted by
Saving Hawaii
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.
Ha, cool. :-) Will be curious to see what you think having used both in person - if you think the Ixon IQ is about the same, or a better light (for the light distribution part, it's clearly a better light for battery life :-)).
If it was **just** replacing the batteries that would give an adequate runtime I probably would have encouraged you to just buy new batteries, but in my opinion 1-2 hours isn't enough. A decent bike light needs 2+ hours of runtime to be sure it doesn't run out while you're still riding. 4-5 hours is just awesome... :-)