Fitting Road 2 Visability LED Headlights.

[Delboy777]

yes, I've read carefully your previous thread about your bike conversion and how you don't want to convert the dipped beam, hence why I'm keen to know from Delboy what his low beam conversion is like on the road

Haven't been out in the dark with the bike but as soon as I am I will report back here.

 

[Delboy777]

Nice job Delboy, have a wee dram on me

 

[Magwych]

Any CANbus LAMP-F errors with these?

I had been looking at these, but the EUR24 increase in price for one rubber grommet felt a bit steep: EUR56 for the LED, and EUR80 for the LED plus the grommet that fits the 1200 headlight.

It seems though that if you want a neat job there is little alternative.

 

[Delboy777]

Any CANbus LAMP-F errors with these?

I had been looking at these, but the EUR24 increase in price for one rubber grommet felt a bit steep: EUR56 for the LED, and EUR80 for the LED plus the grommet that fits the 1200 headlight.

It seems though that if you want a neat job there is little alternative.

No LampF I cant see an alternative to the rubber but im sure someone will come up with something. As you say very neat installation.

 

[Bendy toy]

I've had one in my main beam for a while and used it daily down dark unlite back roads/lanes - It's very good, I've not been tempted to go LED for the dipped beam because I find that and the fogs as standard work well - you just need to adjust them both up as high as you dare

I test rode the new Honda AT with its LED headlights in the dark and the lights on that are very impressive, riding home on the GS with its LED main you could see that it did not have the engineered/well designed cut of and spread of the Honda but I did not feel the I was missing much. In fact it confirmed what a great UG this is.

I'd be interested to hear what it's like in th dip, my thoughts are it will provide too much bright white light in the foreground and distract you from looking into the distance

I found the original halogen bulbss made main beam next to useless exactly because the foreground was comparatively bright and the main/dip separation angle is too narrow. The OEM aux headlights exaggerated the problem. HID-50 in dip made the halogen main beam totally pointless. You can tell its working because the blue warning lamp says so. However, HID-50 in main and dip gives me a fantastic light spread. The slightly slow warm up is not a big deal. Once it has been on for few seconds the next light-up is much quicker.

If the LEDs come close to the HID-50 they will be amazing to use.

 

[Delboy777]

I found the original halogen bulbss made main beam next to useless exactly because the foreground was comparatively bright and the main/dip separation angle is too narrow. The OEM aux headlights exaggerated the problem. HID-50 in dip made the halogen main beam totally pointless. You can tell its working because the blue warning lamp says so. However, HID-50 in main and dip gives me a fantastic light spread. The slightly slow warm up is not a big deal. Once it has been on for few seconds the next light-up is much quicker.

If the LEDs come close to the HID-50 they will be amazing to use.

I don't know for sure, but im thinking they will be very very close to the HIDs

 

[Bendy toy]

Good stuff.

Has anyone tried H11 LEDs for the aux headlights? Ideally the same manufacturer as these H7s.

 

[Delboy777]

couple of pics first one dip then main. Sorry about the quality of the first one........Giles, calling Giles



Main beam

 

[Decompressing]

Christ! That does look bright but (maybe its misleading with that wall in the way), it doesn't look like theres a lot of separation between dipped and main? Are you getting lots of cars flashing you?

 

[younger06]

Holy thread revival Batman!!!!!


Delboy777 any update on how these have worked out longterm??? I'm just in the middle of looking into lighting options for the winter.

 

[Wreford Miles]

Holy thread revival Batman!!!!!


Delboy777 any update on how these have worked out longterm??? I'm just in the middle of looking into lighting options for the winter.

I'm back to comuting home down unlit, no traffic back lanes - IMO one of these LED in your main beam is all you need, extra light in the dip would for me be to distracting. If I where to upgrade further it would be a pair of Dually Spots set to come on with my main bean that would give some long distance punch.

Ive said it several times, first step is adjust your dip beam up as high as you think you can get away with and if you have a GSA then adjust the aux lights up to match the cut off

 

[Delboy777]

Holy thread revival Batman!!!!!


Delboy777 any update on how these have worked out longterm??? I'm just in the middle of looking into lighting options for the winter.

I cant fault them been perfect and up to now no problems. IMHO, far superior and more reliable than HIDs and every bit as bright.

 

[younger06]

I cant fault them been perfect and up to now no problems. IMHO, far superior and more reliable than HIDs and every bit as bright.

Am just to be sure, no problems with dazzling oncoming folk from light scatter or any such mullarchy??

 

[Bendy toy]

I'd suggest you re-think this. Those fisheye lenses on the aux lights significantly hamper the ability to throw a decent beam of light regardless of whether you are using halogen, LED or HID. An after-market spotlight will give you a much better outcome in my experience.

My narrow beam LED spots also have "fisheye" lenses. They don't hamper light output but they do focus the narrow beam. They would dangerously bright for dip beam back up.

I have HID-50 main and dip beams. Any more foreground light would be just too much - making the distance appear darker. This makes the OEM spots redundant apart from looking trivial in comparison to the dipped headlight.

I fitted the long range LED spots in their place wired to wired with main beam only. LED halo rings around the spot lenses give good day-lighting.

The downside is loss of dip beam bulb at night means Im stuck, but HID (or LED) iS more reliable so Im not fussed.

 

[Delboy777]

Am just to be sure, no problems with dazzling oncoming folk from light scatter or any such mullarchy??

No none whatsoever, good cut off too for £160 i think the mutts nuts. My dip is maybe a wee touch high but that's down to adjustment, no angry on comers so far.

 

[Bendy toy]

Same here the HID light source is not a spot like the bulb filament but dip beam has a good cutoff.

 

[Magwych]

I bit the bullet and went for a single LED from sol2be in the dip.
Easy to fit, not much scatter and a good bright beam.
Down side is that it keeps cutting out. After acouple of days it started switching off after 80 minutes. On Friday night it only lasted 20 minutes before shutting down in the midst of London's finest rush-hour traffic
Awaiting a response from sol2be ...

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[JonnyBravo]

Overheating I reckon on a probably defective diode -
The main reason I have not bit the bullet on led is as standard if you have a failure you can get an H7 halogen anywhere for a fiver (or £12 on a cross channel ferry!)

Hopefully you get a replacement easy enough from them - keep us posted

 

[Wreford Miles]

Another reason for led in the main beam only is it's not on and hot all the time...

 

[Delboy777]

I've got one in dip and main, and had no problems with either.