ppereira007

i got mine a couple of weeks ago, ordered it from a bike shop in Geneva. I ordered it a couple of months ago, so it took some time getting in. when i picked it up the store owner told me it would have came sooner, but they didn't have the instructions in french. He got the wtf look when he told me that. i already had the instructions in english printed out from the dahon website, when i had first decided i was going to get one. oh well... at least i have it now, lol. works great, i haven't had a chance to try it on tour, but on day off rides, it works like a charm.

carrefour

It is in German, but if that is not an issue, then you will enjoy this : https://fahrradzukunft.de/12/nabendynamo-lade-adapter-2/

Looks like the Dahon Reecharge has some issues:
-Smoothing capacitor starts leaking (they managed to make this happen more than once)
-Very little power is delivered to the internal battery. This means that you will only be able to keep "low consumption" devices run permanently from it. Forget anything like smart phones or car GPS systems.
+It seems to be medium efficient when converting the energy from its internal battery (3.6V) into the 5V USB.

More very useful info for the DIYers and others :
https://fahrradzukunft.de/12/low-drop-lader/
https://fahrradzukunft.de/12/minimal-lader/
https://fahrradzukunft.de/11/nabendynamo-lade-adapter/

rollinbone

recently gave up on reecharge and bought an e-werk
excellent results: charges my gps's fully flat battery in 2.5 hours of cycling at various speeds
and thats when using the devise at same time.
you can set output to several voltage/amp settings and comes with many types of connectors.
my gps takes the standard input of a usb charge that is 5v/.8ma, so that could also be used for ipod's etc.
only conn: its more expencive than the 'reecharge' but at least it exists!
checked today on the 'reecharge' and its now expected in uk on 10/10/2010, I won't hold my breath.

pasopia

I bought a reecharge and have been using it for the last 6 weeks on a bike tour. I definitely would not recommend it. I've had several problems. You have to press a button to make it accept the charge from the hub, and a green light turns on. A separate button is pressed to release the charge into your device, and a red light turns on. The problem is that it is impossible to see if the lights are on in the daytime. If you accidently leave the red light button on you waste your battery charge. If the green light is not on the battery can`t be charged.

A full day of 8 hours riding never filled up the battery completely. I would ride all day charging the battery, and then at camp plug my ipod touch in. It was never able to charge the ipod completely, it would run out of juice before then. Sometimes it would inexplicably die after 10 minutes or so.

Two days ago it stopped working completely. It doesn`t charge or do anything.

If this thing actually worked it would be great, but in my experience it`s junk.