More lumens are what you are looking for, and this topic has been discussed ad nauseum in the electronics section.

Those appear to be tall posts with mostly hooded lamps to direct the light downward.

The hoods make a big difference, as does the height (and number of lights).

Eugene put some low level hooded lights which are tolerable along one of the bike paths.

Springfield used bare bulbs (or glass covers), and lots of them. So, as one rode down the path, 50 bulbs were visible and shining in the eyes.

Plus the tailights of the cars to one's right (median strip path), plus headlights of cars to the left.

It was really really bad. And, UNSAFE. That is one place where I used to blink my headlights. Still, one can often have troubles seeing dark pedestrians without lights, and it was BAD.

I'll try to get some photos in the next few weeks (with the lamp posts, but fortunately no lights).

You don't care about battery life?

(If you use a hub dynamo, then I guess not)

I take all the visors off of my bike helmets.

I ride drop bars, and I discovered that I tended to look up, and the visors were restricting my field of view (in the daylight).

on a street light, no.

Lumens aren't going to make a difference if they're not directed properly. Throw/Lux is more important than overall brightness.

What is this, the 1950s? Who uses bulbs any longer, unless they contain an LED filament?

Light pollution is an issue in certain areas of our state. Less energy consumption but brighter is not always positive. A lot of places would have preferred same brightness and even less energy consumption.

I never stated that less energy consumption but brighter is a positive. I inherently disagree with that statement. In fact, I never commented on brightness.

no.

You don't care or you disagree?

2x the lux at the same distance is almost 4 times the brightness and probably a little more as the overall hotspot is slightly larger as well. Assuming the prior bulbs were to specification that's a ton of extra light being put out for no reason.

I don't care about brightness at ground level compared to energy consumption and light colour.

I would prefer that it's not brighter but that's a secondary concern.

Lux is lumens/m2 ... so I don't understand your other commentary.

Lots of yellow bulbs in use around here, which I believe are sodium lights???

As far as a couple of paths in Springfield, definitely not from the 1950's.

The Rosa Parks path was an old abandoned railroad through the 1980's, and I believe up until about 2000, when it was upgraded to a median strip bike path, maybe about the time the new hospital was built.

I haven't inspected the bulbs carefully, but they were short, upward facing, and white. And, working about 2 years ago, but mostly non-functional now.

The 42nd street path was an active railroad in the 1980's, usually with strings of rail cars loaded with logs on it. Also turned into a path around 2000. It got the lamp posts, but I never saw the lights on top of the posts.

Likely Springfield got some government grant money (State), and bought a bunch of pretty posts without thinking, just as municipalities started transitioning away from incandescent bulbs.

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Ok sorry I didn't know there was an electronics forum! Commuters are my peeps so I post nearly everything here (including a thread about whether or not to wear standard underwear under your lycra pants, watch for that one soon!)

OP here - thank you actually, I had no idea there were so many variables - I just thought more lumens and less weight the better!!!!

You could be right - I am not 100% positive on the lumens output and 10-4 on the not staring into the lights of oncoming traffic but literally the trail goes dark when cars approach. Happy commuting.

Yeah the light was a gift and I am not 100 percent sure the specs, could be wrong on the output number

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That would be my vote.

I'm not sure what the energy sacrifice would be going from blue-white to a warm white color temperature, but I much prefer the warm colors of hearth and home. Blue-white to me makes the whole world look like an auto parts store parking lot.

pineal gland? you cannot sleep in your house when the light is not to your liking? don't you have curtains to close?

sure. not with my house, but on some houses, the street lamp is directly at the window and is very difficult to block out.

like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.7903...7i16384!8i8192

that's what £225K / $300k gets you over here.

nice!

Maybe I'm slightly high on the price with the Brexit stagnation and all.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-hi...4-0eu/42608119

are the cars coming up behind you and washing the light out or coming at you? i have had good luck with cygolite for bike lights. I have 850 lumens and want to upgrade to the 1100 lumens light.

i think cars headlights have gotten brighter as well. if you are using AA batteries you should probably consider a light that is usb rechargeable.

zactly! the problem isn't lack of illumination, it's being blinded. I would suggest a helmet with a visor so that the OP can look down at the pavement without being blinded, or a cycling cap which has a bigger brim. gotta stay away from the shopping channel, got a problem ...;-)

There is, and you'll find everything from zealots preaching the wonders of dim dynamo lights to people who can actually see where they are going.

It's not a dim dynamo light, it's the horrible infrastructure that you ride upon.

I should've guessed that E Wa was in the US and not participated in this discussion.

Interesting that you 2 think less light is going to be better. While reality doesn't work that way, I'm sure you'll enlighten us (pun intended) as to how that's going to help.