I don't have much idea about how a dynamo works as I've never used one. I've seen them with like a bottle type barrel being driven by the tyre sidewall and I think the faster you cycled the brighter the light.
The Vega has four light settings, high = 2 hours burn time, medium = 4, low = 8 and 2W flash mode = 24 hours. I like the idea of a 1.5 hour charge time, as quite often when I had the Cateye, it would take 10 hours to give me a pathetic 1 hour burn time.
When I was in the LBS, I compared the output and light quality of the Vega with a Cateye 300 and I reckon two of them would almost match the brightness of the former.
Since last posting on this thread, I've found out from Light and Motion that the batteries are hardwired in to the LED cluster so maybe 10 years down the line the light unit would have to be sent back to California. Given the postage and wait times, I'll probably order a replacement battery and LED unit for it from them. It seems the Turbo smart charger costs about 66% of the total price so the batt/LED unit won't cost that much..
Posted: 23/09/2005 07:03
