Can Somebody Please Explain Dynamo Lighting To Me?

[Low Gear Guy]

Why stick with "normal" instead of getting a dynamo rear?

On my previous set up I fitted a higher power halogen bulb at the front. Probably not much point with LED lighting.

 

[freiston]

Why stick with "normal" instead of getting a dynamo rear?

On my previous set up I fitted a higher power halogen bulb at the front. Probably not much point with LED lighting.

My post was referring to rear battery lights as opposed to rear dynamo lights (the differentiation being between power sources rather than light sources).

 

[andrew_s]

Before LED front lights, it was common to use a 3W front bulb and a battery LED rear light rather than a 2.4W front bulb and a dynamo rear, to get extra seeing light.
Front LED lights can't be fiddled with, so there's no point doing the same from a lighting point of view, but some people don't like the front to rear dynamo wire, which is viewed as being untidy.