Good day NiteFlux!
I now choose to myself bike light - ARC HID 1.0 vs Photon Max. There are
some questions:
1) I live in Russia, Moscow and in the winter nights are cold. Whether the
Li-Ion accumulator can work at temperature lower 0 degree? Usually I ride
until -20*C degree after work in forrest for 2-3 hours.
2) On Your site there are advantages LED in comparison with HID, and whether
there is a return comparison? I am going to buy a headlight in English shop
in which I bought many goods; the prices on Photon Max and ARC HID almost
identical. If LED it is so better than traditional light why peole still buy
traditional light? What advantages has HID? In Your comparison page the HID
light seems much worse than even Halogen? Please help me to choose, cause at
forums there are never-ending disputes. It is important to me not to lose "a
volume" vision in front of bike which gives HID.
3) Which LED modules you use in Photon Max? We carefully watch news in the
world of LED-technologies. What temperatures of a luminescence? Among my
companions many people are enthusiasts of bicycle light. Somepeople make own
headlights because of band-name lights are improbably expensive in our
shops.
4) In the course of a choice, I and my companions from biggest Russian
cyclist forum, Velomania.ru, have made the test of our headlights; You can
see the preliminary results of the test here:
http://stalir.ru/test/ (maybe
it will be useful for you too)
Unfortunately there was only one HID headlight and I could not see its
advantage and it's wasn't helpful for me.
5) Whether one of decided advantages for me possibility to change a lamp
Is probably to replace LED's after some years when they will become outdated
and there will be more modern?[/b]