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| Bicycle rear light. © Eugene Brennan |
Mystery light.
I've
bashed it almost to the point of cracking the lens, put it in the
freezer for half an hour while turned on and left a strong magnet in its
vicinity and it still won't turn off. Yet when I'm cycling, after 100 m
or so, it manages to turn itself off. And that keeps happening. The
only thing I can think of is that deceleration in a certain direction is
bending a spring in a clicky button. Or maybe it's condensation on the
PCB. Or possibly constant vibration rather than large shocks.
Anyway,
I hate the way they don't put proper switches on these things instead
of buttons for changing modes that inevitably cause them to switch off
on bad roads. It's difficult to get a decent backlight anywhere. I've
tried eBay, Amazon and AliExpress.
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