Different Headlamp

[darrsi]

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[size=1em]I'll be the guinea pig and buy them so watch this space and i'll let you know the verdict when i get them, and i'll try and add some photos as well.[/size]
[size=1em]They're not too expensive to take a chance with.[/size]

[size=1em]https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nighteye-H1-H...rk:17:pf:0[/size]

[size=1em]NOTE: I've just noticed that on their listing it says 80 watt "per bulb", yet i know from a different advert that they are actually 80 watts "per pair" which would be less power consumption than the 2 x 55w bulbs i'm using now.[/size]

[size=1em]Seeing that my spotlights are only 10w each yet completely outshine my headlights you would like to think that these may do the job okay, fingers crossed.[/size]

I wish they'd offer LED headlights with a lower colour temperature, 6000K is far too dazzling IMHO.
And a lot are also far too bright. Once upon a time a simple power limit was enough to keep the light output within sensible bounds, but the efficiency of modern discharge or LED sources renders that useless. So every time I'm out at night I find myself guessing that my side of the road is just a bit to the left of the things that are blinding me.
That aside, those Nighteye units don't look too extreme. I guess they've added the low and high beam powers AND converted the figure to tungsten equivalent to claim 80W per bulb. No way could that dissipate 80W with such minimal heatsinking, the lumens figure is far more telling, they're probably 8W. Which will make life easier for switchgear, wiring and battery.
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I'll do a meter check if they get to stay on the bike when i try them. When i turn my current headlights on the battery voltage drops quite a bit, and as i mainly do shortish runs every day that can become a problem in colder winter nights, which is why the 10w spotlights have been great in every way, using less power AND giving me much more light on the road at night. I use them as daylight running lights as well. I even had another biker pull up next to me the other day asking where i got them from as he said they looked really bright for such a small unit. I wondered what he was doing 'cos he was in front of me, then he dropped behind me, then back in front of me again until he pulled up next to me at traffic lights. He was basically checking them out before he finally spoke to me.  :lol


There was a time where you just put up with the poor headlights, or at least put in the best bulbs you could find, but now with the roads being so poorly maintained everywhere and no doubt about to get worse again if weather reports are to be believed, then you really need to be able to see the road in front of you because some of the potholes out there are just downright dangerous.
It's a bloody disgrace how some councils have let their highways get into such a bad state. There's a huge dip in the road right next to my work that feels like you're riding into about half the height of a bath, it's that bad, and i reported it months ago yet nothing has been done at all, not even a temporary repair. When you see artic lorries go over it the whole lorry looks like it's about to tip over then it corrects itself once over it.