Lights for 24 hour endurance races

For 24-hour and adventure races with a basecamp, I run an OutBound Trail lamp on the bars, and run either a 2-cell or 4-cell pack. 2-cell pack nets about 4 hours of use on low, and 4-cell pack around 8-10 hours on low. The low setting has been sufficient for the majority of use, with only briefly stepping up to medium or medium-high for technical and/or high-speed descents.

I have had a few lights that I could use an charge at the same time. So I could just swap any sort of backup battery that I liked. I personally prefer that over proprietary battery packs.

OP: Is this for the 1 event only? Whats your price range? What's the run time need?

(I'm wondering if you're buying 2 cheap chinese lights and extra batteries, or name brands that'll be quite more expensive but are likely to have better long term reliability)

One other note. I went with the divorced battery packs and magic shine style bullet connectors for just the reason mentioned above. Recently i've seen some 1-2 cell 18650 lights, and carrying a couple spare 18650s seems better than carrying full packs.

VegasSingleSpeed said:

For 24-hour and adventure races with a basecamp, I run an OutBound Trail lamp on the bars, and run either a 2-cell or 4-cell pack. 2-cell pack nets about 4 hours of use on low, and 4-cell pack around 8-10 hours on low. The low setting has been sufficient for the majority of use, with only briefly stepping up to medium or medium-high for technical and/or high-speed descents.

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Lot of our customers now are using the pass-through aspect of the Trail Evo and Hangover to swap out inexpensive USB battery banks and leaving their lights on the entire night. No need to turn off lights or anything like that. Just have to experiment to figure out exactly how much runtime you need and how many external powerbanks needed.

Outbound said:

Lot of our customers now are using the pass-through aspect of the Trail Evo and Hangover to swap out inexpensive USB battery banks and leaving their lights on the entire night. No need to turn off lights or anything like that. Just have to experiment to figure out exactly how much runtime you need and how many external powerbanks needed.

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I already tried running the Hangover on pass-thru, and I documented my issues both to you via email, and in the Hangover thread. Until you fix the current-prioritization to draw solely from the external battery so that the light doesn't completely die when the internal battery drains, it's not a lamp I'd use for my primary light in an ultra-endurance race.

If that problem has already been fixed, a friendly email to customers about a firmware update (?) would be nice.

Isn’t Outbound a Phoenix AZ company?