I’ve had your product for around a month now and absolutely love it. Mainly use the daytime strobe. Everyone I ride with ask about it so I provide them with your information. Hopefully they will be providing you with additional sales.
I use the Evo and Portal package for night riding. I do an occasional 4 – 6 hour night ride, so I read the article on the website entitled, “How do I extend runtime with an external USB Power Bank?”
There are great tips in this article – and like the writer expressed, there is no way for them to test every power bank out there. They do, however, recommend that we select a QC3.0-rated power bank from a reputable company such as Anker, Belkin, and RavPower. (I’m sure there are more, but I researched these three).
I bought the RavPower RP-PB1229 PD Pioneer rated at 20,000 mAh, 20W for $45 including shipping. This unit is about the size of a cell phone but twice as thick. The slimmer units were about half the capacity at 10,000 mAh – I may buy one of these for my helmet light.
It has a “Wake Up” button on the side – the article on the site explains about how some units negotiate for power – this one ran perfectly until I ran it dry.
I plugged in the unit to the light with the light off and pressed the wake-up button. The 4 green light bars on the Evo blinked as if it was charging. (It was fully charged, but it does this even with the stock charger fully charged for a couple minutes after sitting overnight). When I turned the light on, it acted like normal and allowed me to switch through the different power settings. I selected Adaptive Mode, and after a few seconds, the 4 bars stayed on solid – just like normal.
The power bank has 4 bars as well – and all 4 are lit when fully charged. After 3 hours, it went down to 3 bars left, and the Evo had all 4 bars as expected. The power bank lasted 6 hours - 5 minutes before the last meter light extinguished. I unplugged it from the Evo (which still had all 4 bars lit) and kept timing the run time. I suspect a little of the internal battery got used during through-charging as it went to 3 bars after only 20 minutes. (6-hours, 25- minutes run-time). The 5% remaining one-bar flash (restricting to Low-Mode) happened at 8 hours-20 minutes. Final light-flashing out-of-power warning came at 8 hours – 41 minutes.
Some notes on the test:
• Test was done using “Adaptive Mode” with both the light and power bank fully charged.
• I tested indoors in a 70-degree room. At Jason’s (of Outbound) suggestion, I ran a small fan over the light to keep it cool.
• The short (thin) charging cable that came with the RavPower unit did not work on the Evo – I used the Outbound cable with no problems.
• The Evo power bars stay green unlike the new Portal, which turn blue during through-charging. I didn’t know this but Jason explained it well – future Evos will eventually get this feature.
• I have not tested the Portal yet with power bank , but that light standing on its own power lasted 3 hours-5 minutes during my testing – exceeding the runtime listed on the website by over 30 minutes.
I rate this as a complete success. My goal was 6-hours of run time and I got over 8 with this particular unit.
I use the Evo and Portal package for night riding. I do an occasional 4 – 6 hour night ride, so I read the article on the website entitled, “How do I extend runtime with an external USB Power Bank?”
There are great tips in this article – and like the writer expressed, there is no way for them to test every power bank out there. They do, however, recommend that we select a QC3.0-rated power bank from a reputable company such as Anker, Belkin, and RavPower. (I’m sure there are more, but I researched these three).
I bought the RavPower RP-PB1229 PD Pioneer rated at 20,000 mAh, 20W for $45 including shipping. This unit is about the size of a cell phone but twice as thick. The slimmer units were about half the capacity at 10,000 mAh – I may buy one of these for my helmet light.
It has a “Wake Up” button on the side – the article on the site explains about how some units negotiate for power – this one ran perfectly until I ran it dry.
I plugged in the unit to the light with the light off and pressed the wake-up button. The 4 green light bars on the Evo blinked as if it was charging. (It was fully charged, but it does this even with the stock charger fully charged for a couple minutes after sitting overnight). When I turned the light on, it acted like normal and allowed me to switch through the different power settings. I selected Adaptive Mode, and after a few seconds, the 4 bars stayed on solid – just like normal.
The power bank has 4 bars as well – and all 4 are lit when fully charged. After 3 hours, it went down to 3 bars left, and the Evo had all 4 bars as expected. The power bank lasted 6 hours - 5 minutes before the last meter light extinguished. I unplugged it from the Evo (which still had all 4 bars lit) and kept timing the run time. I suspect a little of the internal battery got used during through-charging as it went to 3 bars after only 20 minutes. (6-hours, 25- minutes run-time). The 5% remaining one-bar flash (restricting to Low-Mode) happened at 8 hours-20 minutes. Final light-flashing out-of-power warning came at 8 hours – 41 minutes.
Some notes on the test:
• Test was done using “Adaptive Mode” with both the light and power bank fully charged.
• I tested indoors in a 70-degree room. At Jason’s (of Outbound) suggestion, I ran a small fan over the light to keep it cool.
• The short (thin) charging cable that came with the RavPower unit did not work on the Evo – I used the Outbound cable with no problems.
• The Evo power bars stay green unlike the new Portal, which turn blue during through-charging. I didn’t know this but Jason explained it well – future Evos will eventually get this feature.
• I have not tested the Portal yet with power bank , but that light standing on its own power lasted 3 hours-5 minutes during my testing – exceeding the runtime listed on the website by over 30 minutes.
I rate this as a complete success. My goal was 6-hours of run time and I got over 8 with this particular unit.
It’s a cold morning and your power is out. Perfect opportunity to grab your helmet light to walk around the house getting things ready until the wife comes down and thinks you’ve completely lost your mind.
I finally purchased a quality Mtbike helmet light after years of using inexpensive and homemade Frankenstein lights from spare LED parts (I work for a commercial lighting company). The beam pattern and spread of the Hangover light is superior to other lights available. The controls are intuitive and easy to use. Nice work Outbound Lighting!
I wired this directly to my Ebike light output with a 12 to 5v converter. Works fantastic!
Bought a trail evo and a Gloworm adventure light for my bikes and between the two I like the trail evo more. Easier to install and use charges faster and no external battery wish charge lasted a little longer but is more than enough for a good night ride in the woods also from what I can tell so far has a great warrenty and people to back it up. Buy this light with confidence you made the right decision.
This is by far the best lighting company out there. I thought there was an issue with my handle bar mount being slightly bent and off center. Turns out it’s just my OCD. But none the less Tom was very helpful and sent me a new one to try out. After that I’ hit the trails where this light did not disappoint. I thought my Old Trail edition was bright but this knocks it out of the park. That one is now on my son’s bike. Together it looks like daytime in the woods. I feel so privileged to be able to run such bright and quality lights.
I have been using an old cygolite light for about a decade on my bars and various small lights on the helmet. The batteries in my current set up are finally kicking the bucket so I decided to upgrade or I bought the outbound lighting. I did buy a nice night rider Lumina 2000 that worked pretty damn well.
Ultimately, I decided to buy this for my birthday and it truly is the best light I’ve ever used a cast such a wide beam. You can see everything. Every night writing video I post on Instagram get several questions about what light I’m using.
Great attachment to the handlebars and the helmet. The light beam is awesome and the intensity is just perfect. The combo is the best, but even the Evo is enough(I forgot to bring the Hangover a few times).
After 3 rides with my Evo and Portal (and loving every minute of them!), I decided to try their feature of through-charging for an upcoming 6 hour night race. I'll test it at home tonight and report the run time. At their suggestion, I opted for one of the brands listed in their article on power banks. This is a Ravpower 20-watt/20,000 mAh unit. (MY guess on the unit I bought). Such a brilliant feature they build into the circuitry.
I would not consider anything other than outbound lights. I have used and seen others use other brands, I have not seen any light that compares to-the quality of outbound. Sure the physical lights are great, I am talking about the actual visual spread of light that they provide. I can see every tree that I got at night in the woods. LOL
Purchased the Trail Evo for gravel bike riding and it’s been an amazing light! My vision at night has deteriorated but with the beam pattern and brightness of the Trail Evo I don’t have any issues. The wide angle beam provides pretty good visibility when going around corners so using a single light is possible if you don’t want to use a helmet mounted light as well. Using the action camera mount (not included) I can mount the light under Coeffiecient bars without any clearance issues and it looks super clean. It’s nice to have a single unit light without any wires running to a battery pack. Well made, solid unit, and if you’re in the market for a light, would highly recommend you take a look what Outbound has to offer.
I wrote an initial review that was a little negative on not having extra shims for the mount. Well mine was off center competing for space with my Garmin mount requiring an odd shape shim. After analyzing throughly I came up with a simple solution. I switched to a different Garmin mount requiring enabling both devices to be in the center not requiring additional shims just a little electrical tape. So everything is great now. Time for a ride in the dark.
Then you need this light. It’s just on another level when compared to the other lights on the market. Bright, functional light! Extremely well made. Great battery life and awesome customer service.
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Bringing a headlight from your car to your bike. Featuring a panoramic, perfectly even cutoff beam pattern that prevents blinding oncoming riders, pedestrians and traffic.
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