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Yup, I had Reelight 520s on my bike for about a year and they were okay, but I kept my bike in a big empty garage at work - then I put them on my girlfriend's bike which gets locked up in busy racks and they had both been destroyed within a week - the mounting brackets for the lights are just far too small so they snap really easily. Also the wiring got pulled out of the rear unit. Neither problem is user-serviceable so both lights were junk. And the coil units always wiggle around on the frame, which makes them unreliable (essentially they have to be re-positioned every time you ride) and the movement wore through the powdercoat.
I wrote to Reelight with a big list of problems and they sent me a top-of-the-range set which has slightly improved metal mounting brackets... and again, both failed in a very short period in exactly the same way as the previous set. Poor design, cheap materials - a good idea, but *terrible* execution.