See.Sense Icon

I love the SeeSense Icon light – it's an amazing light for visibility, and having Bluetooth connectivity means you can set it up as an anti-theft device too for the all important coffee stops, and text your love ones if it thinks you've fallen over which is great for pro-solitude riders like myself. It packs a lot of tech into a tidy "waterproof" package, but...

I'm now on my third Icon having managed somehow to get water into a device that has an IP67 rating.

IP67 meaning that the device is protected from dust and capable of withstanding water immersion between 15 cm and 1 meter for 30 minutes.

Now I know I often seem to test things until destruction, and have an uncanny knack of discovering a products week points, either with software or in this case hardware but how did this light gain an IP67 rating? Was it just under lab conditions rather than real world, not if social media is to be believed.

I've used See.Sense lights since I backed the orginal product on Kickstarter and will persevere because I love their approach and technology, but I've had problems with water ingress with all their range so far, I just don't think they push them hard enough in the development phase.

So how did I break it? Do we have different water in the Pennines? I don't think so. I think in this case it's more likely as the product gets older the seals start to wear and with the flex water gets pushed inside. Each time they've promised to get back to me with their findings but so far I've heard nothing.

Luckily the light is backed by a customer service department that is second to none, and have without quibble replaced the lights.