I say Luxos just because it is way cheaper. I say that as an Edelux II user. Unless aesthetics are important to you. My reasoning was that the Edelux is probably more durable and it sure is prettier.
I ended up ordering from peter white coz easier than crimping and stripping and sealing shit with tools I don’t have.
Cool, IIRC the shipped from manufacturer Secula comes with a long wire that has one end pre-crimped. If he sends you a new model then it will come with those plastic pieces so you shouldn’t need any tools!
yep, squirrel is correct.
frank - when you wire up the light, make sure you have enough length. i went dt -> chainstay -> fender stay, tightened all the zipties, and i didn’t have enough length at the end to connect the taillight – had to go back and redo it.
My Luxos front lens is all loose. Don’t remember it being that way when new. Haven’t seen any sign of water intrusion from the few times it rained here though.
The luxos charger works well. It’s quite fast on the flats, but if you leave your phone plugged it while climbing it may end up draining the battery by making the screen come on too often. I lost the cable and didn’t miss it.
I’d just get the cyo premium if you don’t need the charger.
I did buy the longest wire with double connectors that he had, Ian. I figured that if I needed to take up some slack, I can wrap it around a stay a few times.
i have the cyo premium. good lil light. just trying to up my game for max lighting balleurness imo. i think the luxos U is the right direction for me.
local shop has been seeing ~40% return for defect rate on the luxos U, tho, so it’s a dice roll
it could also be the dipshit connecting the wires to the lamp.
walk through that one a few times
Good call IMO- Edelux is more fop-balleur and Luxos is more nerd-balleur
You got your USB, your standlicht, your goddamn flood beam, it’s just so feature heavy
After breaking the lamp bracket on the Luxos U last weekend you better make sure your mounting game is dialed on your new Geekhouse. That lamp has some serious destructive mass to bounce around.
I’m having a helluva time trying to construct a new bracket at home. It’s hard to find thin enough steel stock at hardware stores. I found a decent piece of brass but didn’t realize how much heavier brass is compared steel for nearly the same size (double the weight on my scale). After digging through my parts bin I discovered that I had a second VO lamp bracket so I tried bending it into a different shape than before to increase rigidity. Got everything dialed and went for a ride only to discover the new shape puts the lamp too close to the porteur platform and every small bump in the road has enough force to slam the light into the rack tubing. 
Back to the drawing board.
I loved that dark ride home from the bar when both of our dynamo lamp brackets were rendered non-functional and mine was pointing at the sky while yours was pointing at the ground. Camping headlamps to the rescue!
bruh
Can you use these also?
Thanks for the suggestion but that would never work for my rack and lamp. I have a Haulin Colin rack from an early run where he must have fulfilled a special request for mounting that upside down hanging edelux.
Those would be too short and have too many collisions with lamp body and wires exiting lamp.
Custom bracket from flat stock is pretty much the only option.
ref:
Moved B&M Luxos U over to the Elephant by Andrew Squirrel, on Flickr
I think you should get the new IQ-X when it starts shipping in the next few months
it natively allows you to flip the mount for hanging it, with a bigger better beam and almost assuredly cheaper than the edelux
then do the trickle-down light upgrade shuffle
I’m halfway through doing that in my dyno fleet
Yeah I would be doing the light shuffle with my Cyo if I could figure out how to mount it on/around a giant Wald basket. Basket bikes need dyno lights too!
tc: im excited to get another dynamo wheel so i can buy another lamp
are you using the wald stays? if so, i attached my cyo by bolting a disc brake adapter to the dongle tab that connects the bottom of the basket to the stay, and mounting the lamp to the disc brake adapter. i had to drill out the stay hole ever so slightly to fit a standard M5 bolt.
^pics? Sounds like a good solution.
I’ve been riding with a Eyc mounted at the fork crown and the wheel casts a goofy dick shaped shadow on the ground.
Yeah, I think I need a pic of that. I am using the Wald stays and I think I know what you’re saying, but I’m not quite sure…