View my LED DRL's

[seth]

Cheers col 

[grog]

Had a look at my power supply from horn, had from wrong side. Yes i have a ticket from trade school for auto electrics. Lazy i guess. My voltmeter on wrong side also, often wondered why only charging 13.5, now 14. What a dickhead.

[Mister Fishfinger]

I love those neat little brackets on the horns. I might copy that idea, DRLs are a good thing in my humble opinion.

[T 24]

My DRL. Notice the difference in bright daylight, when you are not looking bike from straight front of.

[owen426]

Nice t24, I've been looking at doing the exact same thing. Good to see someone has already done it

[VladTepes]

So realistically in daylight... makes no real difference to visibility I reckon.

Be very handy to have extra light at night though.

[T 24]

Picture cant tell all. It really is much brighter in daylight (ok, its illegal 18w), most pics here are taken in dark.
But in night time you do nothing with that led-toy, It is bright yes, but it has no light figure at all.
I still don't know, is does it make better visibility against those semi-blind car drivers

[gsxbarmy]

So realistically in daylight... makes no real difference to visibility I reckon.

Be very handy to have extra light at night though.

You'd be surprised Mike. I had one mounted similar to T24 on my 14 which had a slight "glitter"effect to it, and you could see car drivers do a double take when you were behind them. Other bikes also said it was noticeable, more I think because it broke up the "standard" outline.

So personally I think it made a difference.

[owen426]

Bugger I was hoping it would be good for night time. Do you think a higher wattage bar would make a difference?

[T 24]

Bugger I was hoping it would be good for night time. Do you think a higher wattage bar would make a difference?

Higher wattage and decent reflectors should work OK, but those cheap china toys are just for attention.
For daylight riding only.

[VladTepes]

Yes there is a big difference between DRL's and properly designed LED lightbars which are designed fro area illumination, that's quite true.

[Kiwifruit]

I have a bike with LED light similar to above but thought the LED got lost amonst the headlight glare. Personally l prefer a triangle of lights, headlamp and two LEDs.
I also say any lights are better than just the headlight.
We must have headlamp hard wired on at all times.

[VladTepes]

Yeah us too,

Which is great in theory UNTIL you are driving with the sun behind you, and that makes you HARDER to be seen by oncoming traffic as it breaks up your silhouette.

Bloody government geniuses....

[Mick_J]

Big problem now is that everything has bloody lights on it, cars, bikes, busses and lorries so they just blend in together.  I don't run any lights on my bikes (except my beemer but that has a DRL only) and have not any problems with cars pulling out on me.

[T 24]

If you buy a cheap junk you will get a cheap junk. My chinese toy led bar lasted just a one week!
At first died three leds, then the rest three started blinking and now they are all dead.