Hi Folks,
I've resurrected my old bike from it's hook in the shed. It has a Schmidt E6 halogen headlight which I'm hoping that some here may remember and perhaps even occasionally still use. I'm pretty sure the light has a 3W bulb as I was using it without a dyno tail light. Powered by a Shimano LX dyno hub.
I haven't used this bike or the light for several years. I've noticed now that the E6 flickers extraordinarily from very low speeds up to about10km/h. At this speed the flickering doesn't actually stop - the pulses just start to merge into each other! This is not how I remember the light at all. It's certainly as bright as ever but I recall being impressed when I first got it with how smooth the E6's illumination rapidly became as you got going. I don't remember this pulsating, persistent flicker at all! In fact it's so pronounced I'd now consider it unusable!
Can someone with an E6 maybe tell me:
- if this flicker is actually 'normal' and it's my faulty memory that's just telling me how good this light was?
- if it's not normal and something is wrong?
Based on my experiences building my own LED lights it looks to me like it needs a big smoothing cap across the rectifier outputs. I'm wondering if the cap that Schmidt no doubt installed in the circuit inside may now be a bit old and no longer doing its job? Possible? Anyone else had this experience?
thanks,
Sam.
I've resurrected my old bike from it's hook in the shed. It has a Schmidt E6 halogen headlight which I'm hoping that some here may remember and perhaps even occasionally still use. I'm pretty sure the light has a 3W bulb as I was using it without a dyno tail light. Powered by a Shimano LX dyno hub.
I haven't used this bike or the light for several years. I've noticed now that the E6 flickers extraordinarily from very low speeds up to about10km/h. At this speed the flickering doesn't actually stop - the pulses just start to merge into each other! This is not how I remember the light at all. It's certainly as bright as ever but I recall being impressed when I first got it with how smooth the E6's illumination rapidly became as you got going. I don't remember this pulsating, persistent flicker at all! In fact it's so pronounced I'd now consider it unusable!
Can someone with an E6 maybe tell me:
- if this flicker is actually 'normal' and it's my faulty memory that's just telling me how good this light was?
- if it's not normal and something is wrong?
Based on my experiences building my own LED lights it looks to me like it needs a big smoothing cap across the rectifier outputs. I'm wondering if the cap that Schmidt no doubt installed in the circuit inside may now be a bit old and no longer doing its job? Possible? Anyone else had this experience?
thanks,
Sam.