Cateye simple bulb lights easily break?

Can't tell you much about the effects of cold on the bulbs ... but I have one of Cat Eye's 5 LED
lights, model EL 300, and I like it just fine. It's a personal choice though. I have very good night
vision and the 5 LED light looks bright to me, and throws out a nice round smooth pattern of light.
I've used brighter traditional lights, and some of them have poor light patterns, which negate the
advantage of brighter light. Some of them throw out so may lines and shadows it's hard to tell
what's your light, and what's a stick.

It may be that the design of the light makes the bulb shake too much, and that's why it's breaking
... or you just ride too hard(c: Does the filament break in the middle? That's usually an indication
of it failing because of impact. When I had a car with a stiff racing type suspension, the
headlights would fail because of this all the time ... very rough roads in this area. If that is the
case, seems like an LED light would be better for you.

C.Q.C.

"Magnuso" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I have been through three sets of headlights for my road and mountainbike. I don't know the model
number but a hi-rez picture can be found at:

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It's using a standard small bulb but I have not been able to find any replacements here in Sweden.
Could be cause be that I live in a 'cold' country ie -20 degrees c during wintertime?

Also if I replace them, (currently I have two on my mountainbike) would a 3 or 5 LED one be enough
or should I go for the Halogen ones? I haven't seen any figures of how much actual output the
current ones on the market give...

BR

/Magnus

sun goin' down? the japanese lites appear made of excellent plastic. japans upper reaches are rather
north of belize check the latitudes with sweden. do winter temps in sweden reduce the output of
small batteries? use special winter batts? or does the prepped swede keep the batts in a 35-40 dgree
warm room opposite the belizeans keeping the batts in the fridge. consider buying two or three and
stacking vertically on an aluminum stalk. probably improves the visual scan potential from the
oncoming Voltruck i have a 540-seems to be a provision for routing the exhaustpipe thru the
passenger compartment.

Interesting about the batteries ... I used to work making custom "expedition" batteries for cold
climates. In fact, this week I'm going to the shop and putting together a battery pack for my Cat
Eye LED light. These batteries are very high output, very light, and disposable ... and work at
extreme cold temperatures. This same company made the batteries that powered the IMAX camera that
went to Mt Everest for the film. A 6v, 2 cell battery pack shouldn't be expensive.

If you're interested check out the web site: www.automatedmedia.com You might notice there is a
distributor in Iceland ... these batteries are very popular in the cold climates.

I'm not trying to sell anything here BTW ... the company's main product is intended for film and
video production, and expeditions. However, it is a custom shop and although I can't speak for them
it shouldn't be any problem to make a battery back for a bike light. They regularly make batteries
for sat phones, laptops etc. Keep in mind the advantages to these batteries are they work incredibly
well at extreme cold temperatures, put out a lot of power and are very light weight.

When I make my battery pack, and do some testing on power draw etc., I will post the results here.

Does anyone know what the power draw is for a 5 LED Cat Eye light? I've tried to find out but
haven't had any success. I emailed the company but no response yet.

C.Q.C.

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sun goin' down? the japanese lites appear made of excellent plastic. japans upper reaches are
rather north of belize check the latitudes with sweden. do winter temps in sweden reduce the
output of small batteries? use special winter batts? or does the prepped swede keep the batts in a
35-40 dgree warm room opposite the belizeans keeping the batts in the fridge. consider buying two
or three and stacking vertically on an aluminum stalk. probably improves the visual scan potential
from the oncoming Voltruck i have a 540-seems to be a provision for routing the exhaustpipe thru
the passenger compartment.

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Interesting about the batteries ... I used to work making custom "expedition" batteries for cold
climates. In fact, this week I'm going to the shop and putting together a battery pack for my Cat
Eye LED light. These batteries are very high output, very light, and disposable ... and work at
extreme cold temperatures. This same company made the batteries that powered the IMAX camera that
went to Mt Everest for the film. A 6v, 2 cell battery pack shouldn't be expensive.

If you're interested check out the web site: www.automatedmedia.com You might notice there is a
distributor in Iceland ... these batteries are very popular in the cold climates.

Iceland does not have a cold climate, compared to Canada or Sweden (see the original poster), below
-10°C is quite rare.