Philips Battery Lights
The Philips SafeRide 80 headlight uses two LUXEON leds producing 80 lux on the road surface. The beam is wide and provides even illumination of the road ahead. A sharp horizontal cutoff at the top of the beam keeps focused light out of the eyes of oncoming drivers, just like high quality automotive low beams such as those you'd find on those expensive German touring cars. The SafeRide 80 is powered by four AA batteries. It ships with four NiMH batteries included. The batteries are charged via the USB port on the rear of the headlight. A wall charger is included. So you have the option of charging from a wall outlet, or via a powered USB port on a computer. You'll need to buy a separate cable to charge from a computer's USB port. You can also charge via a hub dynamo if you also have an AC to DC converted that outputs USB, like the Busch & Müller E-WERK.
Here you can see the USB charging port on the rear of the SafeRide 80. There are two brightness settings. At full power, the run time is 2 hours. This assumes that the batteries have been charged and discharged 3 to 4 times. Until the batteries have been through a few charge cycles, they won't deliver the full run time. At low power, the batteries last about 8 hours. On rural roads, with little traffic, you'll probably only need the low power setting, unless it's raining. There's a battery charge indicator on the top of the light housing, just behind the On/Off/power level button.
The SafeRide 80 is also available in a brushed aluminum finish. Philips SafeRide 80 Black, Part# PHLSR80B: $ 220.00 Philips SafeRide 80 Silver, Part# PHLSR80: $ 220.00 We will have spare handlebar mounts for these as soon as possible. Beam Images The first two images are exposed exactly the same as the beam images on this page. These first two images exagerate the brightness of the beams. But by using the same exposures every time I shoot a headlight beam, we get a more objective display of the RELATIVE brightness of the beams from various headlights. Notice I wrote RELATIVE. These images do not accurately represent how bright the beam will appear to you. See below for more images that do attempt to display the actual brightness. Full Power
Here is the SafeRide 80 at full power. The beam photo of the SafeRide 80 is exposed the same as the other images on this page. But this image exagerates the brightness of the beam that you'll see when riding at night. It won't actually be this bright. Low Power
Here, using the same exposure setting, the SafeRide 80 is at low power. This also exagerates the brightness of the beam. Why have I do this? It's because I need to show you the relative differences in the beams; differences between this headlight, and all of the other headlights I sell now and have sold in the past. If I were to use a shorter exxposure, and show the brightness as I see it with my eyes, and if I then used that same exposure setting in my camera when photographing other lights that aren't as bright, they would appear even dimmer than they actually are. This is because the photographic process exagerates the difference in brightness between brighter and dimmer objects. So, to help put this in perspective, I'll now show you images that show how the beam looks to my eyes. Full Power
Here's how I see the Philips SR80 beam at full power. Of course, on your monitor, with your vision, it may look different to you than how it would look to you in my driveway. It's really not possible to accurately display how the beam will look to you. This is the best I can do. Low Power
And here's how it looks to me at low power. Believe it or not, on a dark country road with little or no traffic, when it's not raining, most people will not need a brighter light than this. So if you live and ride in a rural area you'll probably find that this is all you need most nights. And the occasional auto driver will easily see that you're coming. Also, coming soon, a rack mount battery powered taillight. In stock now, a dynamo powered headlight. |
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