Blackburn Mars 3.0 Flasher Rear Bicycle Light
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Manufacturer: BlackburnBrand: Blackburn
Model: 112280
Product features:
- Seven super-bright red LEDs inside a water-resistant case
- Lens optics increase visible distance
- Side LED's provide 180-degree safety-boosting visibility
- 50-150 hours of runtime in steady or flash mode
- Runs on two AAA batteries, included in package
- Blackburn Voyager 4.0 Rechargeable Luxeon Bike Light
- SIGMA TAILGUARD Rear Light
- Blackburn System X3 Bicycle Light
- Cateye TL-LD150 LED Bicycle Tail and Safety Light (Red)
- CatEye Rear Bike Light/Flasher - TL-LD250-R
Sports reviews of Blackburn Mars 3.0 Flasher Rear Bicycle Light
Customer Review: Mars? Try Jupiter!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
Safety is everything when you're riding your 30 lbs bike, trapped between an onslaught of 1 tons metal beasts, and unforgiving concrete sidewalks. If you're planning to see behind you, this is not something that you want to depend on to save your life.
Prior tail lights:
- Trek 3 LEDs
- Generic 3 to 5 LEDs
Adaptive Design:
The light can be mounted on virtually all bike tube sizes (minus the odd elliptical shape bike frames). I have a custom hybrid road bike, my wife is a Sidewinder FX mountain, my 8 year old son's is BMX, and my little 1 year old is a Schwinn Mark III trailer. Each and every bike is outfitted with this awesome tail light. The flexible plastic mount allows you to adjust the circumference of the frame/seat post/pole up to 2 inches, and as small as 1/2 inch. This is practically the sizes for 90% of the bikes and trailers. The cool thing is, the mount also has an adjustable vertical angle as well. This angle adjustment allows you to readjust the visibility angle for your tail light to match the eyes viewing angles of the drivers. Between the SUV and sedan drivers, there's a 3 degrees different. If you have an SUV and a sedan, sit in the vehicles, and adjust the light angle to the middle point of both viewable angles of the vehicles about 25 feet away. That will be your sweet spot that can be seen practically 1/2 mile away.
Visibility:
- Morning hours: At dawn, your light only gives you enough lumen to be spotted around 1/4 mile away. On a cloudy or in a foggy morning, your visibility increases due to the lack of sunlight. It increases up to 1/2 mile.
- Night hours: When the sun starts to sink into the horizon, your visibility increases significantly. If there's still some light before dusk, you still shines out at the 1/2 mile marker. When there's no light left, and all you have are street lights, you can be seen up to 3/4 mile away. In total darkness, you can be seen as far as 2 miles away at level ground, and as bright as a blinking traffic light. When the vehicle is close by, the blinking LEDs can be quite hypnotic to the drivers, as well as blinding. There are passengers screaming out indicating that the LEDs are way too bright, and drivers honking horns to tell us to crank the brightness down. Sorry, can't do that. Our safety goes above the irritation the drivers may have.
In comparison with the Cateyes TL1000, this light rivals the Cateyes 10 LEDs, and much less expensive. If you want something brighter than this light, best to invest in the Dionette single beam LED tail light. Nothing is more bright than this beauty.
Side marker LEDs:
There are two yellow blinking LEDs that acts as side markers. These proves to be useless on all level. They're not bright enough as effective visible markers, and they're draining the batteries for nothing.
Power usages:
There are three settings and three level of power usages:
- Solid colors: The LEDs are on continually. The power usage at this state will eat up your Duracel batteries within 5 hours, and rechargeable NiMH within 4.5 hours.
- Steady fast blinking: The LEDs are blinking at a rapid pace (3 blinks per second). The power usage at this state will eat up your Duracel batteries within 7 hours, and rechargeable NiMH within 6.5 hours.
- Steady fast blinking (as the LEDs moves up and down): The power usage at this state will eat up your Duracel batteries within 7 hours, and rechargeable NiMH within 6.5 hours.
If you use your light on and off, an hour or two each day, you can go as long as 10 hours for the solid light, or as long as 14 hours blinking. Just be warned, when the batteries reaches the 1/2 to 3/4 way point of power spent, the LEDs will dim to 3/4 of their brightness strength.
Durability:
The shell is nothing to laugh about. There are three small screws you have to remove to change the batteries. This will ensure the batteries will not pop out, nor even move a millimeter within their housing, unlike the lights with the pop-on battery housing lids. The shell survives so many of our three to 5 feet falls, onto hard concrete. There are minor nicks and scratches because of the harsh surfaces, but the brightness and clarity remain the same regardless.
Overview:
If I have to invest in an effective tail light that doesn't break the bank to cover my behind, this is it. Not only it's inexpensive, but it's a versatile to have on any equipment for high visibility in the dark. A couple of these strapped to your back and bike, you're set to venture the highways and byways of the modern day. My suggestion is to also strap a blinking white light LEDs in the back of bike. This will throw the motorists off and make most of them merge onto the lane away from you, since the white LEDs cause them to believe you're going towards them. Works every time on 90% of the good motorists. The remaining 10%, they'll plow through you regardless if they see you or not.
Description of Blackburn Mars 3.0 Flasher Rear Bicycle Light
Named after a bright red planet visible from afar, the Mars 3.0 has seven super-bright red LED's inside a sleek water resistant case. Lens optics increase visible distance and side LED's provide 180 degree safety-boosting visibility.An essential measure for any safety-conscious biker, the Blackburn Mars 3.0 Rear Bicycle Light will help make sure you are seen by traffic in plenty of time. The Mars 3.0 is constructed in a tough, water-resistant case and utilizes seven super-bright red LEDs. This rear bicycle light features lens optics that increase its visible distance, and side LEDs that provide 180-degree safety-boosting visibility. Blackburn's Mars 3.0 runs on two AAA batteries (included) for up to 50 hours in steady mode, or 150 hours in flash mode.
About Blackburn
In 1975, Jim Blackburn set out to design stronger, lighter, more innovative and more reliable cycling products. The first were bags and racks designed for touring. From there, Blackburn grew. Over the next 30 years, Blackburn's spark of innovation would lead to many revolutionary products, like the first high quality aircraft aluminum rack, the first dual stroke minipump, the first oversized mountain minipump and the first dual stage/dual stroke floorpump just to name a few. For 2005, Blackburn's creative spark is burning brighter than ever. And as we head into our 30th year, Blackburn is re-dedicated to designing smart, reliable, no nonsense accessories that are essential to your riding experience.
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