I agree. Pointing it farther down the road does seem to work better, particularly in lighting up road signs. The beam's cutoff at the top is quite sharp, so there's little worry that you'll blind oncoming cars even with the light tilted a little above horizontal.
--Eric [email protected] www.campyonly.com www.wheelsnorth.org On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Jeff wrote: > > I just got my eDelux a couple of nights ago. I adjusted it last night > so that it's pointed nearly straight ahead, maybe just barely angled > downward. I'll probably keep playing with the angle, but so far I'm > loving it. Infinitely better than the E6! What sort of tilt are > others here using? There seems to be a big payoff for pointing it > further down the road than one might initially think wise. > > Jeff > > On Dec 11, 11:01 am, <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems to me that the Edelux in that video is aimed too low. My >> Edelux provides substantially better road illumination than that, >> probably as a result of being aimed higher. >> >> ---- Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:27 -0800, Mitch F. wrote: >>>> I often ride at night with my Romulus on roads and not racing, just >>>> riding. >> >>>> The video shows what looks to me like a dangerously low light >>>> level as >>>> far as I am concerned. For regular riding, I would want a lot more >>>> light. For example, what if a deer jumps out in front of you? >>>> Are you >>>> gonna see it with that light? >> >>> The light output on that video HAS to be much less than reality. >>> It's >>> far less than you see with an E6, and by all accounts the beam of an >>> Edelux is as bright as an E6 and much wider. >> >>> I saw that video. The light looked as though it wasn't as bright >>> as a >>> small flashlight. That's nothing near reality: in the dark an E6 >>> looks >>> like a light saber. >> >>>> Not having enough light to really see where one is going is a >>>> recipe >>>> for disaster. Just being able to see the outline of potholes >>>> with a >>>> weak light and hopefully the help of a full moon doesn't cut it for >>>> me. >> >>> No, nor me. And that's not how the Edelux is -- or any good halogen >>> light, either. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
