Bicycling

It is the one huge advantage of using generator lights. As I wrote elsewhere such generator lights were by far the best 20 years ago in the days of Incandescent lights, but with recent advances in LED Battery light that advantage no longer exists (20 years ago if you wanted to ride at night for more then two hours, you had to carry extra batteries, use a generator OR ride in the dark). LED headlight started to change that in the late 1990s early 2000s, but given that people using generators where willing to pay more for lights, LEDS for generator systems were better till about five years ago, when the Battery LED lights finally caught up with the Generator LED Lights.

Today, the main advantage of high end generators is you can run them even in daylight AND not have to worry if you charged them recently. I have been using Schmidt SON generators and lights since the early 1990s and since I have them on my bike today, I still use them. The SON lasts a long time but I did wear one out after ten years of heavy usage. When I replaced that light, the LED head lights for Generators were much more expensive then other headlights (2 to 3 times as expensive just for the lights, the Generator was extra) but also much brighter and effective. That is NO longer true, you can get LED battery lights that are brighter then generator lights AND last 8 to 9 hours. Those two requirements older battery lights could NOT match (mostly the minimum requirement fo 8 hours of lighting, generators can provide light as long as you peddle).

Thus I presently have a light on even in daylight, but most time such lights are not needed during daylihgt.