Light Sensor in newer wheels.

[Funky]

Have any wheel made around 2020 year and onwards have had a light sensor built in them?

It's pretty awesome little thing. If it's dark - it will automatically turn on light. If it's daytime - it will automatically turn off light.

I haven't noticed it on any wheel at all. Why manufacturers don't add that feature?

 

Also some questions about wheels without light sensor.

• The light can be turned off in app - and every time wheel gets turned on (power cycled) - it will remember that setting and wheel will turn on without light powered on?
• You still can press physical light button on wheel - to turn the light on manually?
• When wheel gets power cycled again - the light will be off?

Am i correct to think that it would work like that? (Sorry - i didn't need to think about lights.. They simply worked when i needed them. No messing with app or turning on/off..)  

 

Edited November 21 by Funky

[Scubadragonsan]

Surely, a lot of other features can be added to an EUC such as radar, GPS, voice command, auto-follow the rider...to become a James Bond kind of wheel!

Edited November 21 by Scubadragonsan

[Funky]

I'm talking about feature that has been in 201* year models.. And newer models removed it altogether.

Yes they can add many others features.

 

[Robse]

45 minutes ago, Funky said:

Have any wheel made around 2020 year and onwards have had a light sensor built in them?

It's pretty awesome little thing. If it's dark - it will automatically turn on light. If it's daytime - it will automatically turn off light.

 

 

And as extra bonus (KS 16X) if a car comes in your direction (opposite lane) with high beam, then wheel light goes to off.  Very smart indeed..... not.

[Funky]

34 minutes ago, Robse said:

And as extra bonus (KS 16X) if a car comes in your direction (opposite lane) with high beam, then wheel light goes to off.  Very smart indeed..... not.

Lol.. You could disable it then - If you ride on streets. Also light sensor should be on upper wheel body, just for scenario like this. 18Xl has it at back side.  Love how at morning, when i ride to train/job it auto turns them on. And when i ride home it turns them off. As at day you don't need them.

FYI: i'm pedestrian/sidewalk rider, who likes to blind them at morning. 

Edited November 21 by Funky

[Not Sure]

The s22 has this. I also really love how it dims when you stop.

[humblesage]

S16 also has.

[Seba]

Light sensor in my 18XL was such a great and useful feature that I removed it and used it's hole to put a buzzer cutout switch. Not as automatic feature as a light sensor, but at much more useful feature  Now riding with light on all the time by default (still can turn it off/on with the app), which is good for being visible to other traffic and people.

[Funky]

6 hours ago, Seba said:

Light sensor in my 18XL was such a great and useful feature that I removed it and used it's hole to put a buzzer cutout switch. Not as automatic feature as a light sensor, but at much more useful feature  Now riding with light on all the time by default (still can turn it off/on with the app), which is good for being visible to other traffic and people.

Each their own. To me light sensor is pretty awesome. Sure i could ride my wheel with light on all the time. Even while pushing it inside train, who cares that i would be blinding seated passengers, or when train door opens - the first thing people would see is a flash bang.   Nah i will be nicer and disable the light. Only once in morning i actually need the light (Somewhat.. I never had a light, when i was commuting by bike over decade.) Pressing button once are much better option, than needing to turn off light every time i turn on wheel.

Small thing, same as centered handle. Lights on EUC's in general. Easy/fast to access buttons. Lift switch built inside handle. Most of these things are afterthought, or not thought about at all..

Edited November 22 by Funky

[Lockwood]

20 hours ago, Funky said:

Also some questions about wheels without light sensor.

• The light can be turned off in app - and every time wheel gets turned on (power cycled) - it will remember that setting and wheel will turn on without light powered on?
• You still can press physical light button on wheel - to turn the light on manually?
• When wheel gets power cycled again - the light will be off?

On the v14, the only thing that automatically come back on after a power cycle is the DRL portion of the headlight. The actual beam would need to be turned on (single button press) every time the wheel is powered back up.

I do miss the light sensor from my 16x at times. Having the ability to continue through a tunnel or underpass without slowing or bending down to activate the light really was worth its weight in gold. It was a feature that just felt right. If cars can have it, why shouldn't our wheels?

19 hours ago, Robse said:

And as extra bonus (KS 16X) if a car comes in your direction (opposite lane) with high beam, then wheel light goes to off.  Very smart indeed..... not.

That is the one caveat

Still, I think there's some merit to having an auto-sensor. At its very worst, it requires manual activation. Which honestly is no different from what we do now with modern EUCs when going for a night ride.

Edited November 22 by Lockwood