Headlight Switch

[b1k3rdude]

• Yes, all reflectors based headlights in both bikes and cars". Are you saying that ALL reflectors will fail an MOT if HIDs are fitted?
  
• What are you basing this on as it does not seem to be the universal experience.
  

• Yes, as I mentioned in the post on the 8th "The reflector is only certified and designed for the intensity and brightness of a halogen bulb"  - a HID bulb is just so bright it literally "hi-lights" the limitations of the reflector and lens.
  
• You look at ANY oncoming vehicle with HIDs fitted and as said vehicle passes, you will get a sparkle/scatter and that is with you as the observer off to one side - not even directly in the path of the dipped beam. It dosen't help that most of the owners of said vehicles are fitting HID kit with 6k colour bulbs (bluish) OEM fitted HIDS kits are 4300k (which is what is fitted to my bandit). Fyi, any forward facing light that is not white is also an MOT fail.
  
• And lastly the DfT detective states HID can only be fitted to vehicles with self levelling suspension, last time I looked only the Honda goldwing and 'some' BMW bikes have this. but this is going off the topic of this thread.
  

Yes a lot of MOT places will pass a vehicle with a HID fitted,  but technically they should not be.  But as a lot of people want to fit HID kits (and understand why and agree with that) is to have a bike where the dipped beam is a single beam type either reflector or projector. And yes I get scatter on my bandit 1200 with its H7/reflector based setup, but as the reflector is design for a single beam bulb it has a lot less scatter than the H4 dual beam reflector of the fazer.

Your spots are nice, but don't seem to add that much extra light. Maybe they are better in real life.

I can turn the main light off on a pitch black country lane, because they are vastly superior to the std halogens on the fazer by a long way. The combined light output from those two spots is the same a single HID bulb, that's 1800 lumens.

Going back your comment about running HID in lo beam for years, the only way I could get a clean cut-off was to have a fixed HID bulb with a large baffle, eg -


And regarding fitting projection units to the foxeye fazer 600/1000 (see below),  and to a boxeye FZS600, as done here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIfx_qaEtcE