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Emerson 18-LED flasher, runs on 4 AA batteries and is very, very bright! I have been using one for
the last 3 years or so, works great. Remove the magnets from the back and mount it to your rack.
$4.99 plus $4.95 shipping... Best $10 you'll ever spend on a tail light. 5 watt white LEDs will cost
you quite a bit more.

John H N TX

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Does anyone know of a cheap strobe, or flasing red light for the back that can be seen really
well? I saw one somewhere a while ago and lost the address.

Mountain Equipment Co-op has a battery powered strobe - the real kind, with a flashtube, not a bunch
of LED's - for about $13. Looks like a small standard flashlight, has a couple of coloured lenses
you can attach over (instead of?) the clear one. I would have bought one except that there's already
a flashtube strobe on the back of what I ride.

Flashtubes are _way_ brighter than LED's.

Mel

Try www.lightmanstrobes.com we use these on the railroad and are visible a good distance.

Travis

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Does anyone know of a cheap strobe, or flasing red light for the back that can be seen really
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Mel

Hi jt -

I could not find a flashtube at MEC's Web site. Do you recall the make and model?

Thanks.

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Mountain Equipment Co-op has a battery powered strobe - the real kind,

with

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a flashtube, not a bunch of LED's - for about $13. Looks like a small standard flashlight, has a
couple of coloured lenses you can attach over (instead of?) the clear one. I would have bought one
except that there's already a flashtube strobe on the back of what I ride.

Flashtubes are _way_ brighter than LED's.

Hi John -

What sort of battery life do you see with the Emerson 18-LED flasher?

Thanks.

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Emerson 18-LED flasher, runs on 4 AA batteries and is very, very bright!

I

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have been using one for the last 3 years or so, works great. Remove the magnets from the back and
mount it to your rack. $4.99 plus $4.95

shipping...

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Best $10 you'll ever spend on a tail light. 5 watt white LEDs will cost you quite a bit more.

John H N TX

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Hi jt -

I could not find a flashtube at MEC's Web site. Do you recall the make

and

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model?

Thanks.

If you search from the main page with "strobe" you get item number 4018-137.

jt -

Aaah, there it is. Thanks very much!

How do you attach it to your bicycle?

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Hi jt -

I could not find a flashtube at MEC's Web site. Do you recall the make

and

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model?

Thanks.

If you search from the main page with "strobe" you get item number

4018-137.

Damn! I thought this thread was about cute women flashing when recumbent riders go by.

Curses!

Will I drive a Kia. My cell phone is a NOkia. I am so confused.

Mel Long said:

Does anyone know of a cheap strobe, or flasing red light for the back that can be seen really well?
I saw one somewhere a while ago and lost the address.

Mel

I don't know if this qualifies as "cheap", but it's damn bright. It's a genuine strobe and you can
see it forever. It is a battery hog so I used rechargeable batteries with mine. You can find it by
searching on Lightman Strobe. Here's what one looked liked mounted to the back of my P-38:

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Do you have any pictures of the rest of that bike?

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Mel Long said:

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can be seen really well? I saw one somewhere a while ago and lost the address.

Mel

I don't know if this qualifies as "cheap", but it's damn bright. It's a genuine strobe and you can
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searching on Lightman Strobe. Here's what one looked liked mounted to the back of my P-38:

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Do you have any pictures of the rest of that bike?

Bunches.

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What sort of battery life do you see with the Emerson 18-LED flasher?

John is right. About the best $10.00 you will ever spend.

As to battery life....I have been using mine regularly for 3 years and the batteries seem to
still be good.

I estimate about 300 to 400 hours in that time so far (I use it in flasher mode only). I expect to
replace the batteries in the next couple of months.

On daylight rides I get many comments from other cyclists about how far they were able to see the
light in the daylight. A great attention getter.

Jerry

There's a line of small clip-on single and multi-LED flashers which use AA-batts. I've found them in
drug stores but not ONE bike shop in Jackson Hole offered them up until I stopped commuting there in
July, 2001. I used a five-LED flasher while on airport ramp during dark operations. Received much
favorable comment from pilots of our Air Wisconsin and United jets.

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...Flashtubes are _way_ brighter than LED's.

Maybeso, but I used LED type on airport ramp at night year-round and received much favorable comment
from pilots who sometimes couldn't spot flashlight wands. Hate to think what strobe-types might have
done to their night vision.

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...How do you attach it...?

VELCRO, after duct tape comes VELCRO!!

Try one of these. They work great and need no batteries - ever. The faster you go the more often
they flash and the visibility is good from the rear.

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can be seen really well? I saw one somewhere a while ago and lost the address.

Cute Flasher idea (except there is a flaw), what happens when you pull to the curb or stop for
traffic and come to a dead stop. Your bent stops being visible, which does not sound real healthy to
me. What it should have is a way to store some of the extra energy in an onboard rechargeable
battery. Then when the wheel stops turning, the battery takes over.
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Try one of these. They work great and need no batteries - ever. The

faster

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you go the more often they flash and the visibility is good from the rear.

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can be seen really well? I saw one somewhere a while ago and lost the address.

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What it should have is a way to store some of the extra energy in an onboard rechargeable battery.
Then when the wheel stops turning, the battery takes over.

I have this on my 'bent - and the magnetic gizmo powers the headlight as well. But the magnetic
gizmo cost some big bucks...

It's SON of course ;-)

Guy
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What do you mean the 'magnetic gizmo cost some big bucks'? Doesn't the light come with the gizmo
to generate the electricity? Or were you referring to the storage gizmo? What's big bucks? $10,
$20, or more?

Chuck

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Joshua Goldberg said:

What it should have is a way to store some of the extra energy in an onboard rechargeable
battery. Then when the wheel stops turning, the battery takes over.

I have this on my 'bent - and the magnetic gizmo powers the headlight as well. But the magnetic
gizmo cost some big bucks...

It's SON of course ;-)

Guy
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