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Daveysgingerlovechild said:
I've got a Blackburn Dayblazer 800 for the front and a Blackburn Dayblazer 65 for the rear. I've had them a few years now and they're ample for urban area cycling. I do run them on one of the flashing settings, but they mean I'm visible and also saves battery. Which lasts a good while after a charge.
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*looks them up on the amazon
1. 'Kin price of those!!
2. Which bit about me not wanting flashing didn't you get? X
 

chrismpw said:
*looks them up on the amazon
1. 'Kin price of those!!
2. Which bit about me not wanting flashing didn't you get? X
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I think you're going to struggle getting non-flashing ones. Yeah, they're not the cheapest but they're solid and have lasted. After nearly being panelled years ago by someone who couldn't see a cheap light and also getting frustrated with cyclist who have crappy lights I can't see when driving, it's a sound investment.

Can't recall what the wife has on hers. She cycles more than me, to and from work, along some sketchy roads. You can't miss her with whatever she has lol. And yes, they flash.
 

cronullasharks said:
Are you after something you need to run through an app on your phone and need full reception and a paid subscription to use?
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That will be a certainly not.

Actually I currently have a nice (early) led lamp that worked great for 15 years. Recently though, it started discharging batteries. I investigated ... and rather than having a tried and tested on/off switch, the same function was replaced with a momentary switch and a transistor. The transistor (microscopic) has obviously developed a leak meaning the led doesn't go off, it just glows dimly.

WHAT is wrong with a simple switch? Stupid stupid humans.
 
cronullasharks said:
All stolen from the woodwork room when he was a teacher I bet too.
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I bagged a full on carpentry bench with 2 wood work vices and a metal work vice for a TENNER in 1989, when the workshops of the school I started at (as a new teacher) were "upgrading" to flimsy crap sivthey could replace wood and metal work with glue, card and pasta. Still have it. Currently my 72 year old sister's dolls house (that she got when she was 7 according to the writing underneath the base) is sat on it undergoing renovation for my granddaughter.
 
chrismpw said:
That will be a certainly not.

Actually I currently have a nice (early) led lamp that worked great for 15 years. Recently though, it started discharging batteries. I investigated ... and rather than having a tried and tested on/off switch, the same function was replaced with a momentary switch and a transistor. The transistor (microscopic) has obviously developed a leak meaning the led doesn't go off, it just glows dimly.

WHAT is wrong with a simple switch? Stupid stupid humans.
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You know and have rewired a bespoke speakers kit, and you can't navigate a new on/off switch on a light?

I smell a rat ladies and gentlemen...
 
Rita_Poon said:
You know and have rewired a bespoke speakers kit, and you can't navigate a new on/off switch on a light?

I smell a rat ladies and gentlemen...
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It's so tiny and my eyes are now so poor at close work, it would be the smell of burning fingers you'd get. No way I'm soldering that to repair it. I don't have any toggle switches in stock small enough to fit into the case which is the size of a classic 1980s staedler pencil eraser.
 

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