Thanks Fanum. Thought about that but would that really turn the Fogs into Long Range driving lights?
Looked back at a company I used to buy from in the US and they sell Warn Wireless Lights! Wireless!!! But, it looks like they only have fogs in 3.5" size.
Driving long distance after dark becomes so much easier when you can see forever.
The only thing that can change the type of lamp the unit is, is the reflector design.
Fog lamps have flatter, wider beams, and spot lamps have rounder beams that reach out far further........if you put a much brighter light source (EG an HID bulb) into a fog lamp, the beam pattern won't change significantly but obviously it will shine further because it's brighter.
So no, in answer to your question, a brighter bulb or an HID won't
really turn a fog lamp into a long distance driving lamp.
You can get inexpensive driving pattern halogen lamps though, and HID those up.....
The reason the Clearwater etc LED lights are so expensive is because they have extremely efficient and well made reflectors, along with a decent LED and (more importantly) a top end LED controller chip.
FWIW, I use cheapish LED fog lamps to give me a wide, shallow blade like fan beam out to the sides, plus I'm just fitting some H7 HIDs into an older pair of Hella FF50 driving lamps........on the various backroads of rural Essex, at anything up to three figure speeds at night, that's plenty illumination
EDIT.....The term 'fog lamps' is a bit of a misnomer for auxiliary lights fitted to a bike......the reason I use 'fog' type lights isn't to provide a shallow, fan-like light pattern that minimises the glare back in fog (although that's what they do).....it's to use that wide angle but short(ish) throw beam to illuminate the sides of the narrower roads, so I can see the edges clearly.
Because the fan shaped beam is shallow though (think of a Chinese paper fan that you use to waft your face with, that's the pattern) it doesn't tend to dazzle oncoming traffic like a long distance spotlight pattern will.
