Spot lights.

[ELIMINATOR]

Do I go for the Hella FF50's, or these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2x-780LM-...=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item20c83c9fe4

The ones I have are 9w each, these are 12w, mine were bright, just like Hid's.

I had the Hellas on the GS for about 6 years, no problems. LED ones, hmm, I have two sets already on other bikes. very bright, one set has moisture inside the glass, possibly caused by mounting the light too close to the engine.

 

[kirky1298]

I plumped for these lights but I'm not holding out much hope


You get what you pay for


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320897205415?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

 

[ducatiparts.110mb]

What concerns me is that so many of these cheap lights feature combinations of fog / snow / spot / driving / main / dip etc in the title.

The beam pattern can only give you one result and anyone selling lights that can do more than one beam pattern is either lying or doesn't have the faintest idea what they're on about - either of which would make me buy elsewhere.

The link in Eliminator's thread shows a photo with the Spot LED lights in combination with dipped beam. It's kind of dumb to wire them together when the beam pattern for a spot light is a long range focussed spot, and dipped beam is well, dipped beam. Anyone approaching you whilst you were using this combination would be dazzled, and for that reason the bike would fail an MOT test.

Looking at the pictures of the LED lights, they seem to have quite a good spread of light, but no lens in the front glass, and therefore no dipped beam cut off to stop you dazzling other traffic.

Its your money and your choice, but I'd stick to lights that declare one beam pattern and achieve it, rather than claiming to be all things to all men.

 

[Gecko]

I just fitted some lights which Fanum sourced for me at the Hograost. I have removed my Hella ff50's which have cheap plastic bodies and keep blowing bulbs for some oval LED's which are superb. They are really well made and draw much less current that the Hellas. Give Bill a shout and have a look here http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=305801 I have the nr 2) lamps: Twin superbrights

 

[ELIMINATOR]

I use them as spotlights, no way are they really suitable as dipped beam, unless they are angled very low, even then when I had them on my Divvy as driving lights, they would illuminate road signs from a long distance. It did get through several MOT's like that though.

I would say that they illuminate better than the FF50s, as spotlights.

 

[STUBBS]

have a read through this very nice units

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=305801

 

[Grim Rider]

I would suggest that if you want to improve your lights so you see more of the road ahead, the best way to go is hid, if you want to be seen better by others then a pair of led lights which make your lights form a triangular pattern (I believe there has been research to show this stands out most clearly to the human eye) works we'll - I use a set of Cree driving lights which I got from the Bikeviz website a couple of years ago for about £45 and they have lasted well and got through several MOTs fine.