Right. Sort of an unfortunate design when combined with the fact that the light is always on. The ideal behavior is that light would somehow suppress the bright light unless it had enough power to keep it on for several seconds. Sort of an inverse standlight.
Best, William On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:51 PM Eric Norris <campyonly...@me.com> wrote: > My IQ-X does seems flash a bit more at very low speeds than my other LED > dyno lights. I attribute that to the brighter LED, which probably requires > a little more power to light up. > > Anyway, we’re talking *walking* speed here—get on the bike and start > riding and the headlight lights up like any other at a very slow *riding* > speed. > > --Eric N > campyonly...@me.com > www.CampyOnly.com <http://www.campyonly.com> > Campyonlyguy.blogspot.com <http://campyonlyguy.blogspot.com> > @Campyonlyguy > > > On Mar 8, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Mark Anderson <eye.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I too have an Eyc with daytime running mode and automatic senso-whatever > switching. The Eyc does not respond to/get confused by oncoming vehicle > lights, but it does flash the daytime high-beam lights when going under > Chicago's brighter streetlamps. I am not fond of that. The flashing > distracts me quite a bit. The rapid change and loss of a clear beam > pattern on the road somehow looks like the lights of a rapidly overtaking > vehicle behind me --- at least to some deep, lizard-like part of my brain. > > Regarding the flashing at low speed: That is just a fundamental fact of > bicycle lighting life. Both hub and sidewall generators are magnetos, > which generate alternating current, the frequency being dependent of the > rotational frequency of the wheel. So, LED lights (and to some extent even > incandescents) are always flashing as they light up on only half of the > time or so. > > To the OP: I would be very interested to hear about the performance of > the stand light on the IQ-X. The stand light on the Eyc has been a real > disappointment for me in that it is just a little too dim to seem > noticeable in town. I know it cannot be anywhere near as bright as when > riding, but the Eyc stand light seems much, much weaker than my taillight's > stand light (a Toplite Line), even more so than the efficiency penalty of > white LEDs. > > Cheers, > Mark > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/xELa1Nc2_ik/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
