Mobility Device Light & Horn
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This Letour light and horn is marketed for bikes, but our reviewer uses it on her wheelchair. It is no longer available on Amazon, so we are also sharing a purchase link to a similar but more highly rated model, given that the silicone strap on our reviewer’s product eventually broke.
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review by Joni
NOTE: This review is for the “blake blue” model. The “blake green” model has more settings and a battery display, which is nice, but it requires mounting with screws, so it may be more difficult to attach it…and then to detach it for charging…before reattaching it for use.
This combination light/horn is great for lighting your way and alerting others to your presence while cycling after dark, but it can also be used on a wheelchair, rollator, or walker. The rechargeable LED light is bright and has three settings; to change the brightness setting, press the button on top: 1) high, 2) low, 3) strobe, 4) off. I most often use the low setting when I’m wheeling through our darkened house at night; I also angle the light down toward the floor so as not to disturb sleeping people or pets.
The horn is VERY loud, has five different sounds, and can be used to alert others in case of emergency. I don’t recommend using it in most situations, since it is piercing. To change the horn sound, first prepare yourself and others; then hold down the horn button for at least five seconds while it cycles through the programmed sounds, and release it once you hear one that you like. The horn button is connected to the light by a thin wire. (I’m not suggesting that you do this on your new one, but when the wire was damaged on an older model that I have, I simply cut the wire with scissors, discarded the horn button, and kept the functioning light.)
Both the light and horn button are designed to attach to a bicycle handlebar, so this is perfectly interchangeable with the circular tubing on a wheelchair, rollator, or walker. They attach using flexible rubberized notched straps, so this works on tubes of different sizes. I always attach the light to my wheelchair near one of the caster wheels (out of the way of my footplate), wrap the thin connecting wire around the tubing until it is taut, and attach the horn button beside the light I suggest nestling the horn button near the light, where it won’t be accidentally bumped.
You will also receive a rechargeable red taillight, which increases your visibility to drivers and pedestrians, when you find yourself out at night, whether on the street, sidewalk, or parking lot. Turn it on or off by pressing and holding down the button. It has four settings; to change the display setting, push the small button on the front: 1) all five LED lights on constantly, 2) slow chase display, 3) flashing, 4) fast chase display.
There are no batteries to replace! It comes with a short USB charging cord, which can be plugged directly into computer or alternatively into a USB power adapter (not included) to charge using an outlet. The rechargeable battery on my light lasts for quite a while, since I use it less than 15 minutes per night; even then, I only have to charge it once every 1-2 months. Charge time from completely drained to full is approximately 2.5 hours.
review update
I still use this and it still works well. I often get comments from doctors, physical therapists, and service professionals about how clever this is for darkened or low-light navigation. Given my personal usage, the battery life between charges is better than I had originally estimated.
I still use this, but the silicone strap snapped, rendering it useless on the front of my wheelchair, but I found that it had another use—strapped to the back of my wheelchair for my partner to illuminate the walkway at night. So I still like it, although the usefulness of this product for its intended purpose has changed. This bike light & horn holds a charge like none other! I only have to fully charge the light once every two months for light to moderate use. And if you don’t want the noise, you can do what I eventually did after accidentally touching the horn button one too many times—just take scissors to the wire between the light and the button. Let there be (only) light! The stretchy silicone strap was resilient but likely snapped for two reasons: the extreme change in temperature (sometimes below zero outside, then 60-70s inside), and the fact that I frequently rotated the light on my wheelchair depending on my needs. I rotated it straight ahead to illuminate the path while traversing a distance, and I rotated it down when navigating through the house so as not to disturb others. Because it is an adjustable strap with holes, it will fit on the smaller bar on the back of my wheelchair, but the hole on the strap snapped where I would need it to fit on the larger bar on the front of my wheelchair.
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