Originally Posted by
jrickards
My cheap rear light was dead this morning (and in the past 1/2 hr since I've been at work, it doesn't seem to be charging so it might be really dead) ...
The light inside was glowing green which means the batteries are charged but it still wasn't working. I shook it to listen for any sounds of something being loose inside and water came out. Like I said, it was cheap (and I wisely bought 3) so I can just swap it out with another but I shook out as much water as possible and will let it dry. That might be enough to get it back again but if not, like I said, I have 2 others at home.
I was thinking last night that I've always gone cheap on stuff and had to replace them more often than others who buy wisely. Once I have run out of these cheap three lights, whenever that happens, I'll get a decent rear light (although, maybe I should not wait so long so that if the decent one dies, let's say because the battery/ies was/were low, I'll have a backup).