Here is my upgraded lightage...
The brightness knob is my new favorite gizmo, and I am getting it dialed in, walking around in front day and night to see what brightness levels are bright enough but not causing trouble to others.
Seems just over half brightness is really bright during the day without being painful. At night, minimum brightness is still pretty bright.
The pics are all at minimum brightness.
And the garage ones are before I finished adjusting the beams.
Its two Erica's and two Darlas (these are floods, using the motorcycle beam pattern as they call it), designed primarily for conspicuity. I got the amber lenses for the lower pair, making them look like fog lights. Notice how the larger diameter really contributes, the lower ones can generate a lot of light, but their small size doesn't contribute as much to adding presence (a sense of nearness) to the light pattern.
Now for the Tim Taylor pitch: at half brightness, they are producing a rough total of 8,000 lumens, compared to a typical headlight that produces 700. Now that's power! At full (home destroying power), it would be 16,000 lumens for this setup.
The entire thing was a package deal on their website, you pick the lights (one or two pair, of any lights they make), and it comes with the cables and mounting clamps and the bar mounted brightness controller, and an annoyingly high price tag.
I did solder out the switch though, made it always on, and rely solely on a switched ignition wire (this was the only wiretap needed). I am guessing I may regret that if I ever ride in heavy fog.
Except for needing that one tap, it was the easiest install for a major light project I have ever done. Total of maybe 6 hours, half of that sitting in the bedroom cabling everything up, and soldering out the switch, and preparing the wiretap.
The brightness knob is my new favorite gizmo, and I am getting it dialed in, walking around in front day and night to see what brightness levels are bright enough but not causing trouble to others.
Seems just over half brightness is really bright during the day without being painful. At night, minimum brightness is still pretty bright.
The pics are all at minimum brightness.
And the garage ones are before I finished adjusting the beams.
Its two Erica's and two Darlas (these are floods, using the motorcycle beam pattern as they call it), designed primarily for conspicuity. I got the amber lenses for the lower pair, making them look like fog lights. Notice how the larger diameter really contributes, the lower ones can generate a lot of light, but their small size doesn't contribute as much to adding presence (a sense of nearness) to the light pattern.
Now for the Tim Taylor pitch: at half brightness, they are producing a rough total of 8,000 lumens, compared to a typical headlight that produces 700. Now that's power! At full (home destroying power), it would be 16,000 lumens for this setup.
The entire thing was a package deal on their website, you pick the lights (one or two pair, of any lights they make), and it comes with the cables and mounting clamps and the bar mounted brightness controller, and an annoyingly high price tag.
I did solder out the switch though, made it always on, and rely solely on a switched ignition wire (this was the only wiretap needed). I am guessing I may regret that if I ever ride in heavy fog.
Except for needing that one tap, it was the easiest install for a major light project I have ever done. Total of maybe 6 hours, half of that sitting in the bedroom cabling everything up, and soldering out the switch, and preparing the wiretap.
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