Lupine Betty – 2012 Mtbr Lights Shootout

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The Lupine Betty is the ‘aspirational’ light. It’s what riders plan to possess when they’ve arrived. It’s what another lights plan to be when they acquire up.  It’s like the Porsche of the lights category. It’s not cheap but it delivers stunning performance and decorous value.

In this geezerhood of competition and ever-changing LEDs, the Lupine Betty today offers threesome reddened heads to accomodate the assorted needs of broad modify riders. The threesome configurations are:

26° / 2600 Lumen 22° / 2300 Lumen 16° / 2050 Lumen

As you’ll see in the photos below, the 16 honor reddened offers a more focused shine and the 26 honor provides a wider beam. This has to do with traveller alternative as whatever folks might prefer a individual rather than a wider throw.

For Mtbr though, we don’t see how anyone module would opt for the 16 honor instead of the 26 degree.  Wider is ever meliorate in our view.  And since it is 600 lumens brighter, it’s a shut douse for us.  Maybe the 26 honor on the forbid and the 22 honor on the helmet would modify the ultimate setup.

The another bounteous development is the updated hardcase batteries. The batteries are today hard-cased with rubber ends to assist in mounting. This is a enthusiastic development as this modify factor is a a collection leader now. Also, assorted fourpenny batteries are today acquirable so you crapper hit your gleaming reddened for digit hours or fivesome hours.

As always, the setup is ease unbelievably reddened at 460 grams putting discover a claimed 2600 lumens. And beneath every this is unreal Lupine quality where you crapper wait this reddened to continue employed into the incoming decade.

Mounting:

Mounting is done with the traditional Lupine wrap adornment style. It’s simple and i works.

Specifications:

• Price: $930.00
• Claimed Lumens: 2050/2300/2600 Lumens
• Light Head Weight: 127 grams
• Installed Weight: 460 grams
• Run Time: 2 Hours
• Measured MTBR Lux: 173/197/217 Lux
• Measured Lumens: 1800/1950/2100 Lumens

MTBR Light Meter Measurements:

The Betty has threesome reddened heads and they measured at:

26° / 2600 Lumen – 217 Mtbr Lux

22° / 2300 Lumen – 197 Mtbr Lux

16° / 2050 Lumen – 173 Mtbr Lux

 

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Strengths:

• Extremely configurable today with threesome acquirable reddened nous with assorted shine angles
• The 26 honor reddened is dementedly gleaming and light.
• Ultra gleaming and clean shine pattern that throws a daylong way
• Light coefficient or daylong separate instance depending on battery configuration
• Configurable reddened levels
• Extremely broad quality

Weaknesses:

• Cannot be aimed left to correct easily
• Most of us cannot give it
• Light nous crapper get hot

Bottom Line:

The prizewinning has gotten meliorate but not cheaper.   Unless you hit primary needs, the manifest choice is the 26 honor reddened head. It is wider and brighter.

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