Best back up Audax light?

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PpPete

Legendary Member
Location
Chandler's Ford
I have various front lights that use AA batteries and always found Vapex to be excellent. Use their AAA in rear lights too.
Basically they have two kinds, one which has a red colour scheme which offers the highest possible capacity for the size of battery (up there with the much spendier Eneloops) and one with a green colour scheme which whilst slightly lower overall capacity is a "low-self-discharge" variety, and so better for intermittent use, and keeping in the saddlebag as back-ups.

http://www.vapextech.co.uk/acatalog/High_Power_Consumer_Batteries.html
or http://www.component-shop.co.uk
 

Noodley

Guest
I have just pruchased some 7 day shop 2900mAh's

http://www.7dayshop.com/batteries-a...ck-of-4-in-free-case?brand=189&cat=155&cl=153

I have never used Vapex, so cannot compare, but never had any problems with 7 day shop batteries
 

mcshroom

Bionic Subsonic
My current audax setup (I haven't got a hub dynamo - yet) is a B&M Ixon IQ as a primary light (4xAA) and a Smart Lunar 35 (2xAA) as a backup. I use either of these lights for commuting on their own and although the Ixon is more powerful, both are good enough so should be fine as a backup. Another option I sometimes use is an Alpkit Gamma headtorch which has the added advantages of not requiring holding when fixing a puncture and being used for reading route sheet/gps/computer while riding.


I've tried some Ultrafire torches and they are incredibly bright (magicshine brightness) while giving a decent running time, but I seem to rattle them too much and they start flickering/shifting mode which gets annoying.

To be honest even a 0.5W flasher is better than nothing if it's the only light you have, but riding down steep hills in the dark relying on one is scary.
 
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