can anyone recommend some daylight running lights?
How/where did you mount them??
pics would be good
TIA
Chris
850 4tx
Posted 18 February 2019 - 01:34 pm
can anyone recommend some daylight running lights?
How/where did you mount them??
pics would be good
TIA
Chris
850 4tx
Posted 18 February 2019 - 02:28 pm
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Posted 18 February 2019 - 05:28 pm
Posted 18 February 2019 - 10:05 pm
I bought some of China's finest off ebay, they were fine
The only thing is I had the Givi engine bars at the time and found there wasn't a super intuitive way to mount them and they ended up too low down
I can't give you a comprehensive break down on durability as some genius in an ix35 decided he wasn't happy that I was making better progress than him while filtering through London and deliberately rammed me as I passed in front of his stationary car stuck in traffic, the only casualty being the fog light. I sure was happy that I'd paid £12.50 for the chinese ones rather than however much those touratech etc ones go for
I now have the Polish RM-G engine bars, and am going to get another set of engine lights for those. Those bars come up a little higher so might be slightly better.
Cars noticably got out of my way and put their phones down more readily coming home along the A2 when I had the lights on vs when they were off so as a safety feature (intended purpose) they did great. I wasn't blown away with their performance at actually lighting stuff up. One of the dual carriageways as I get nearer home is not actually lit so you forge your own path with your headlight. I imagine this is mainly due to them being mounted quite low rather than necessarily performing poorly
Posted 21 February 2019 - 01:27 pm
I've mounted my current ones on the crash bars. I had another pair just under and to the side of the headlamp until. I replaced the screw for the front corner of the fairing and fitted a brass bolt so I could bolt them on. Not sure whether I'll put them back on as I don't think they add much more than I've already got. Time will tell.
Posted 23 February 2019 - 09:50 am
When we're talking about DRL's it's a good idea to think of them as lights with a dispersed beam pattern. I've seen some people fit spotlights as DRL's, run them all day long and cause blinding in dull lighting conditions. DRL's need to be dispersed, and if possible, reduced brightness down to 50% at night time, or turned off at night completely.
There are cheap dimming controllers available on eBay, EG - https://www.ebay.co....O3Jq20KGEW2MjNc
I've used one of those on a couple of my bikes, the turn signal also flashes the DRL together with the indicator on the same side. The dimming effect is controlled by a switch on my KTM, and by a light sensor on my TDM. You need to be using 2-wire DRL's, IE not units which have built in features switched by a 3rd wire, in order to make use of the controller's dimming feature.
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Posted 23 February 2019 - 06:12 pm
Ive 2 led spots low down and 2 tiny round led's hidden in the 2 little vent holes at the bottom of nose fairingcan anyone recommend some daylight running lights?
How/where did you mount them??
pics would be good
TIA
Chris
850 4tx
Edited by JMC, 23 February 2019 - 06:14 pm.
Posted 23 February 2019 - 07:18 pm
Edited by Andy25, 23 February 2019 - 07:24 pm.
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