Trooper said:
H7 kit matey, read the thread properly
HID lights fitted - advice needed
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H7 kit matey, read the thread properly
Thunder
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rdover said:
I fitted the twin Stebel kit from Nippy Norman guaranteed to loosen the sphincter of any cager
rdover
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from the NN blurb
"Now you can buy a twin pack of Magnum horns - one with low tone, one with high tone. Slightly louder than a single Magnum."
I take it the word 'slightly' should be highlighted in some way as in "the sky is slightly above the sea"? [edited cos I'm dumb as bag of hammers today]
"Now you can buy a twin pack of Magnum horns - one with low tone, one with high tone. Slightly louder than a single Magnum."
I take it the word 'slightly' should be highlighted in some way as in "the sky is slightly above the sea"? [edited cos I'm dumb as bag of hammers today]
Thunder
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rdover said:
Well 3db could be classed as slightly, but to be honest I liked the idea of twin tone horns, gives them a slightly different sound.
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3db means 30 times louder!
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On my ancient 1150 I have 6 lights. 4 of them are HID - the main beam, the high beam, 2 of the driving lights. The other 2 driving lights are 100W halogen.
The HID lights come on quickly and absolutely leave the halogen lights for dead . For the first time in 40 years riding I have enough lighting
But tomorrow I pick up my new 1200 and it starts again
The HID lights come on quickly and absolutely leave the halogen lights for dead . For the first time in 40 years riding I have enough lighting
But tomorrow I pick up my new 1200 and it starts again
I pretty sure that a 3db increase will give you approximately 'double' the sound output, not 30 times.... that would blow your head apart!rdover said:
Cole
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GEOFFREY DEACON said:As anyone fitted the 12 ADV high beam?, tell me wear I can fit it please,.
the 12 ADV can comfortably fit at least 4 ballasts ... 2 ballasts under the beak and 2 ballasts between the instrument cluster and the screen. Have posted them before but if you need links, you can see the installation here:
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=51059 and
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=51060
Am still toying with the idea of making it 6 HIDs by adding HID driving lights as main beam add ons (the fog lights are dipped beam add ons) ... but now it gets tough working out to where to put the 5th and 6th ballasts.
Give you £100.00 plus carrige.
dave gs. [email protected]
dave gs. [email protected]
Colebatch,, Thanks for the link/photo about your top ballasts,
I mounted one under the central screen bracket but will look again at fitting the second one like your photo shows??.
I mounted one under the central screen bracket but will look again at fitting the second one like your photo shows??.
andyclift
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Another Option
Bit late if you have already converted but the easy answer is leave the existing lights alone and fit HID auxilliary light.
I fitted a pair of Touratech lamps to my 12GS. An HID on one side that works with main beam and a halogen on the the other that works with dip.
The halogen adds some extra illumination on dip and the HID with main beam is awesome. As, on the GS the dip stays on when main is selected it means that on clear roads I have four headlights with different beam patterns so the road coverage is great.
I have not found a big delay when the HID comes on although for a couple of seconds its a bit yellow and then turns to bright white. This is not an issue though as you still have the original main beam with instant ignition.
No mods to bike apart from adding a couple of wires to the main and dip feeds to power the relays.
Bit late if you have already converted but the easy answer is leave the existing lights alone and fit HID auxilliary light.
I fitted a pair of Touratech lamps to my 12GS. An HID on one side that works with main beam and a halogen on the the other that works with dip.
The halogen adds some extra illumination on dip and the HID with main beam is awesome. As, on the GS the dip stays on when main is selected it means that on clear roads I have four headlights with different beam patterns so the road coverage is great.
I have not found a big delay when the HID comes on although for a couple of seconds its a bit yellow and then turns to bright white. This is not an issue though as you still have the original main beam with instant ignition.
No mods to bike apart from adding a couple of wires to the main and dip feeds to power the relays.
rdover
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Are teh BMW aux lights easily converted to HID or am I getting silly?
Cole
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Yes they are easy to convert.... they have a nice beam cutoff and make excellent additional dipped beams. Note: they are H11 bulbs - that can hard to find in cheap HID land, but HIDS4U have H11s
See my post above for ballast installations. See here for more:
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showpost.php?p=824959&postcount=3
'Nuffsaid
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Ballast location
I am guessing that you have fitted the headlight ballasts under the beak of the GSA, where do you then put the ballasts for the HID "fog" lights - there arent many places on a GSA12 to hide these 'lil critters !
I am guessing that you have fitted the headlight ballasts under the beak of the GSA, where do you then put the ballasts for the HID "fog" lights - there arent many places on a GSA12 to hide these 'lil critters !
Cole
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The headlight ballasts are behind the instrument cluster.
The fog ballasts are under the beak.
see http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showpost.php?p=833876&postcount=28
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