Calling all owners of a Smart 1/2 Watt Rear Light

[e-rider]

I just bought on of these and I have a question:

It has two modes; flashing and steady

Flashing - all 3 LEDs flash (outer two LEDs fast and centre LED slowly)
Steady - only the centre LED is on - is this normal? I would have thought all 3 should be on? or not?

This is the light in question: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/smart-12-watt-rear-light/

 

[rockandrollmark]

Sounds faulty to me. Mine has all three on when on steady mode.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Sounds faulty to me. Mine has all three on when on steady mode.

A Smart light faulty? That hardly ever happens!

at any given moment at least one of the half dozen or so I have is on the blink (ba-dish)

 

[summerdays]

You mean you haven't got another couple of them to compare to? I'm still in my PJ's otherwise I would go and look at the ones on my bike.

 

[fossyant]

A Smart light faulty? That hardly ever happens!

at any given moment at least one of the half dozen or so I have is on the blink (ba-dish)

All the LED's should be on.

Send it back and buy something else. Got 4 or 5 Superflashes (1/2 watts) and they are only any use in the dry - so are used for things like the Family Blackpool Ride the Lights - I've given up with them for commuting. They pack in with the slightest moisture. Then need drying out on the radiator.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

All the LED's should be on.

Send it back and buy something else. Got 4 or 5 Superflashes (1/2 watts) and they are only any use in the dry - so are used for things like the Family Blackpool Ride the Lights - I've given up with them for commuting. They pack in with the slightest moisture. Then need drying out on the radiator.

pull em apart blast em with wd leave to dry. usual works for five or six soakings before you have to repeat.

 

[numbnuts]

Flashing - all 3 LEDs flash (outer two LEDs fast and centre LED slowly)
Steady - only the centre LED is on - is this normal?

That's now mine is

 

[e-rider]

That's now mine is

wiggle got back to me and said that they tried one from the warehouse and all 3 LEDs were on in steady mode. I've sent mine back for a replacmeent.

 

[e-rider]

All the LED's should be on.

Send it back and buy something else. Got 4 or 5 Superflashes (1/2 watts) and they are only any use in the dry - so are used for things like the Family Blackpool Ride the Lights - I've given up with them for commuting. They pack in with the slightest moisture. Then need drying out on the radiator.

perhaps that is good advice, but the cateye lights I've had always stop working when the weather turns bad too. Have you tried putting silcone grease on the rubber seal?

 

[RiflemanSmith]

Mine is the same I only got it from Amazon at the beginning of this month.
I never use it in steady any way so it do bother me either way.

 

[RiflemanSmith]

All the LED's should be on.

Send it back and buy something else. Got 4 or 5 Superflashes (1/2 watts) and they are only any use in the dry - so are used for things like the Family Blackpool Ride the Lights - I've given up with them for commuting. They pack in with the slightest moisture. Then need drying out on the radiator.

Mine worked the whole way to Brighton in the rain, it even fell off and the lens and batteries went all over the road in the rain.

 

[fossyant]

It's new. Mine are a couple of years old and the seals aren't too great now.

 

[Archie_tect]

I checked mine out and now I can't see....

 

[Norm]

I've three of them (I thought I had four - I think The Boy has one hidden somewhere) and all have worked fine for at least two years in all sorts of weathers.

And all the bulbs are on in solid mode.

 

[Davidc]

I have a number of them, and the lighting pattern varies between them. Given the relative brightness of the lamps I can't see it matters.

Smear the rubber seal with silicone grease and those lights are totally waterproof (same advice for all lights and electrical items used outside). One of mine, treated like that, carried on flashing at the bottom of the Bridgewater and Taunton canal for several days after it came off the bike when the clip broke.

Got 4 or 5 Superflashes (1/2 watts) and they are only any use in the dry - so are used for things like the Family Blackpool Ride the Lights - I've given up with them for commuting. They pack in with the slightest moisture. Then need drying out on the radiator.

As above - silicone grease and they'll work under water.