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Cyclists and today we're gonna be reviewing
the Magicshine Seemee 200 rear bike
taillight. Here we have Magicshine's
latest Seemee 200 rear bike taillight,
this is part of their expanded Seemee
taillight line. We're excited here to
see a early release of it and because of
that we don't actually have the
original packaging but I'll show a
picture here on the right side. As you
can see it, consistent with their
current product lines, Magicshine uses really bright
graphics and minimal packaging. You can also
have the taillight is prominently
displayed. Going over the specs for the
tail light, this is $45 and it has 200 lumen
maximum output which is quite bright. It has
up to a 50 hour runtime with one of the
flash modes. Also it has a dual LED design
which is quite cool. You have this
front LED and also what they call a
tracer LED that splashes light
downward for up to 360 degree visibility.
They also packed a lot of technology in
here, it has both a brake sensor and an
ambient light sensor. Now what you get
in the box is the tail light itself
which is a pretty compact unit, you get a
micro USB charging cable which is pretty
standard these days. You have seat post
mount, as you can see it has a simple
quarter turn design and a rubber strap
that feels quite robust. They also
include a saddle rail mount as well
which is really nice a little plastic
piece dual sided and that simply locks
into your saddle rails. They also include
two zip ties which I assume is to secure
the saddle rail for a little extra
security. I don't have the warranty card
or instruction card but it would be
included in the box. Now let's take a
look at the weight of the taillight. The
Seemee 200 by itself is 40 grams, then we
have the seat post mount
that comes in at 12 grams. We have
the saddle rail mount which is a pretty
thin piece of plastic and that comes in
at only four grams. Now let's take a
closer look at the fit and finish of the
Seemee 200 taillight. As I mentioned this
is the brightest version of Magicshine's
Seemee product line and it's really
cool to see them add so much technology
and design to their latest taillights. If
you use have used the Seemee
60 before you can see this is quite a
departure from it. In terms of the form
factor, if anything has reminded a lot of
the Bontrager Flare RT taillight. It has a very
square profile with a large LED on front.
What's unique about the Seemee 200 is that
they've also complemented that single
LED with this little ring around here.
They describe this as a transparent
optical fiber and it looks like it has
secondary LEDs all the way around that
give it a really nice uniform glow
that makes sure you stay visible. Also
what's really neat about this light is
that bottom LED, you can see that here it
has a spherical lens that really throws
a light downward onto the ground to
ensure you really stay visible from up
to 360 degree visibility. One thing I
was worried about is when you first take
a look at this tail light is where's the
side visibility. You can sort of see
here it's actually transparent and you
can see when I turn it on that whole
front is actually transparent, so it has
pretty good side visibility. You
can also see here with that bottom tracer LED
it really ensures you stay visible. The
other really cool thing about this is
they finally added a battery status
checker so you can simply click on the
button when it's off and for three
seconds it will illuminate green, red or
flashing red to indicate the battery
state. That's really nice so before you
ride you can actually make sure you have
enough battery. Now let's take a look at
the mounting options with the Seemee
lights. What I have here is the seatpost
mount as well as the saddle rail mount.
To install the saddle rail mount you
simply place it between the saddle rails
and I believe these have to be round
rail so other rails might not work.
Then you apply some pressure
and you hear that nice click and it's in
place. It feels really secure and it
can be slid back and forth slightly. This
will interfere with saddle bags or other
accessories you might have on here such
as a fender.
Now if we take the Seemee 200 as an
example, did do simple quarter turn for
the seat post mount and you can see
really secure. Simple rubber straps to
remove it and install it. Then for the
saddle rail mount same quarter turn and
it gives you a nice higher placement
especially if you don't have saddlebag.
I think it looks a little better as it
tucks in underneath your saddle. Now
let's take a look at the full lineup of
Seemee tail lights and compare that to
other tail lights on the market. What I
have here is the Seemee 200, it has the
dual led design one on the bottom one on
the front for $45. Next we have the Seemee 180
at forty dollars, it has a large cob led
design upfront. Then you have the Seemee
100 with a slightly lower output and
very similar form factor at 35 dollars.
Finally the $17 Seemee 30 which is a
much thinner and lighter than the others.
What's really cool about this is that
all the Seemee lights have the ambient light
sensors, and that gives you that smart
light output mode to automatically
adjust the conditions or power that
secondary LED on or off. You get the
brake sensor in everything but the
Seemee 30. Now form-factor wise you can
see it has rectangular design with the 180
100 and the 30. This is quite a
departure from the previous Seemee lights. I
have a Seemee 60 here and you can see this
is a very different, it has a polished outer
ring to it and a square design.
Compared to the other ones it
looks like quite a bit different.
The Seemee 60 does have the brake sensor but
no ambient light sensor. Now starting
with the Seemee 200 this reminds me a lot
of the Bontrager Flare RT. You can see when
you put them side-by-side they're quite
similar, the Magicshine Seemee 200 is a
little bit taller and let's likely due
to the fact that it has the secondary
sensor as well.
The Bontrager only has an ambient light
sensor and no brake sensor so a little
bit smaller, the Bontrager does have
bluetooth connectivity which lets you
connect to a computer to monitor the
output battery and also turn your on or
off automatically which is a nice
feature. However it is more expensive at
$60 so I think the Seemee 200 has really
nice high-tech features at a pretty good
price at 40 bucks.
Also that dual LED design is quite
unique and something I haven't really
seen before with these kind of tail
lights. Now if you look at the Seemee 180
and 100 they're both quite similar except
lower output and the differences in
prices. They both have the same light
output modes, obviously different
runtimes and they both have brake sensor
and the motion of the ambient light
sensor as well. They all have this nice
transparent body as well so you can see
even though it almost looks dark you can
tell here at the front is
transparent and same thing you know this
whole shell the body is transparent so
very similar. These remind me a lot of
the Toepeak Redlite Aero, you can
see a rectangular body it's more compact
while the Topeak has a more flared design.
I do like that fact that the Topeak has a
transparent body so when you turn this
on you can see it really lights up the
whole thing compared to the Magicshine.
You do get pretty good visibility
with the side visibility with the Magicshine's
transparent body it is a little
bit thinner and the fact that you can
run this on both aero and round seatposts
is a real nice feature. The Seemee 30
is a little bit of a outlier from the
product line, at 17 dollars it's thinner
does not have the brake sensor but it
does have the ambient light sensor and
the same light mode options.
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Now let's take a look at the Seemee 200
on the road, as you can see here even in
daytime with flash mode enabled it is
very bright and with the brake sensor
enabled it actually triggers pretty well
when you come to deceleration. Howeever, like
with other Seemee
taillights we did find that the brake
sensor calibration is very sensitive so
you can see here as you go over bumps or
potholes it will trigger and that
reduces the overall run time. It's also
cool to point out how the taillight
works at night with that tracer LED. It really
illuminates the red circle around you
for a really cool effect. Now we'll go
over all eight different modes of the
Seemee 200. I'm listing both the run time a
day and night the difference is at night
you have a lower run time due to that
tracer LED being activated. There are
quite a few flash modes here, I really
like the breathe mode it has this nice
gradual effect as well as a comet
which really draws attention. There's
also something called interactive and
it's not so obvious on camera but it
actually illuminates the inner and outer
LEDs independently. Smart mode is another
really cool feature that uses the light
sensor to automatically switch between a
normal flash that goes on off to night
flash. Here's a little montage of all the
flashes together and I mentioned it's
quite a few options and it's pretty cool
that Magicshine has integrated so many
modes into the taillight.
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Now let's go over the pros and cons of a
Seemee 200, I really like the dual LED
design with that tracer LED. It is a really
unique feature to this tail light and
really draws attention at night. Also the
integrated motion and brake sensors are
really nice features especially at the
$45 price. You also have really high
output, it's almost too bright honestly
with the 200 boost mode and you have a
lot of modes. If anything you have
probably too many flash modes. Here some
of the cons are the integrated battery,
there's a non-replaceable that would be
a really nice feature to see more on
tail lights. Also as with other Seemee
lights the brake sensor is quite
sensitive so we often found the tail
light would be dead on longer rides due
to being triggered so many times, however
you can disable the brake sensor that's
something we've definitely done on our
tail lights. Also the second LED reduces
the night time runtimes
by quite a bit, if anything that
taillight that second LED is probably a
little too bright. Taking everything into
account I would give the Seemee 200 a
9.3 out of 10, it's a really
smart taillight with a lot of great
features. It's great to see Magicshine
integrated so many smart technologies as
well as a dual LED design in such a
compact form factor. Thanks for watching
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