January 16th, 2008 by

thien

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The light output measurement is performed by placing a Lux light meter beside the light. Both are pointed at the ceiling (five feet above) of a dark room. This measurement uses the ambient light produced by the bike light. We found this to be the most effective and repeatable measure of each light.

Pointing the light directly at the meter produced varying readings depending on exactly where the light beam was centered. Also, it was highly dependent on how focused the beam pattern was.

Light	Price	Claimed Lumens	Ambient Lux
Light and Motion Vega	$175	75	5
Cateye Tripleshot	$330	130	11
Light and Motion Stella 180L	$300	180	12
Niterider Minewt.X2	$190	150	12
Exposure Joystick Maxx	$250	240	14
Levin Brightstar	$270	500	15
Ayup helmet	$190	280	16
Dinotte 200L	$249	200	16
Knog 605	$399	300	16
Ayup bar (regular kit)	$190	280	17
Exposure Race Maxx	$350	480	24
BR Lights C2.1H	$330	410	28
BR Lights Jeni H	$299	410	28
Exposure Enduro Maxx	$450	720	30
Jet Lites Shadow 2600 HID	$500	675	30
Dinotte 200L Dual	$349	400	32
Dinotte 600-LI-4C	$399	600	33
Light On Expedition 1000	$800	500	41
Niterider Trinewt	$500	500	33
Jet Lites Phantom Halogen	$295	675	44
Lupine Betty 12	$1,185	1400	65