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Next Generation VARIA Radar

Former Member over 8 years ago

Does anyone have any ideas on when the next generation VARIA Radar may be released? Or how long the lifecycle of these items is likely to be? Being a Generation 1 device I would expect an update reasonably quickly to incorporate all the learnings. Or is it a case of no competition so no need to rush it?

I am disappointed the VARIA Taillight is so much brighter than the Radar and am hoping they improve the output on a future update. It would also be nice if the unit became less wide and had a longer battery runtime (at least to match an EDGE).

0 happyrunner999 over 8 years ago

Until there's a technological advance in batteries, I doubt there will be much of a change to the Varia unit. A brighter taillight is going to require additional battery capacity.

To me, the Varia is a great product for the radar alone. I have a "real" taillight and so I use the Varia taillight as just a supplement. I'd be just as happy if it had no taillight at all. I think the taillight is pretty close to worthless.

0 TrippyZ over 8 years ago

Though I have only had my radar a couple of weeks it seems pretty bright to me. I think I will be happy to use it on its own.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Until there's a technological advance in batteries, I doubt there will be much of a change to the Varia unit. A brighter taillight is going to require additional battery capacity.

To me, the Varia is a great product for the radar alone. I have a "real" taillight and so I use the Varia taillight as just a supplement. I'd be just as happy if it had no taillight at all. I think the taillight is pretty close to worthless.

That is exactly what I was thinking. I just did want to occupy all of my seat post with lights. Pity they don't have a seat rail mount for the VARIA.

On the topic of brightness, the standard VARIA Tail Light is about twice the brightness. LED's don't use a huge amount of power and battery are very energy dense these days that even if they added 3 or 4mm to the thickness of the unit they could accommodate the brighter LEDs and provide longer runtime. Wishful thinking anyway...