http://scootrs.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=1813
has any one fitted one of these to a Lambretta ????????
Hid lights
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tonydevon
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I have. The light is very bright but getting anything resembling a pattern isnt easy. You get spikes of light at angles and it seems to naturally want to blind oncoming drivers.
I messed with what way up to fit the bulb and rotation etc.
I messed with what way up to fit the bulb and rotation etc.
heavy is good, heavy is reliable, and if it does fail, hit them with it!!!
Cheers Tony has any one had any success ??
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No idea about their use in Lammies or the specific models you linked to. Someone on here has shown one though.
Wot I know comes from fitting to the car and trying to fit to the bike.
HID's are designed for use in a projector. Using one in a reflector gives the uncontrolled and unfocused output Tony described. Dazzlingly bright to oncoming traffic, but poor illumination of the road.
The various sorts of H4 fit can be a bit unpredictable as the lightsource is rarely where the reflector needs it to be. When I spent a lot of time looking at this for the bike, all the various H4 bulbs got a lot of flak for poor reliability and little output "on the road".
There are small(er) projector kits about now, sometimes even with a shutter to give a built in hi/lo beam pattern but they tend to be a bit long. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5-Inch-Motorc ... 1289787356
The retrofit ones in my car only cost £25 a pair, but are massive at nearly 6" long. The smaller ones I've seen are maybe an inch, inch n' a bit shorter? You can maybe scale off the drawing on the ebay site.
The various LED lamps are coming along in leaps and bounds. Several companies have developed H4 fittings, but again the output is a bit uncontrolled compared to a whole LED lamp unit and nothing like as much light down the road. They need a dedicated reflector system to function correctly. http://www.theonlinepartsshop.co.uk/sin ... ug-n-play/ As you can see, a bit spendy still. Would there be space for the fan unit behind the lamp?
Some cars are now coming with LED spot/fog lamps whether one of these could be sourced and made to fit?
Wot I know comes from fitting to the car and trying to fit to the bike.
HID's are designed for use in a projector. Using one in a reflector gives the uncontrolled and unfocused output Tony described. Dazzlingly bright to oncoming traffic, but poor illumination of the road.
The various sorts of H4 fit can be a bit unpredictable as the lightsource is rarely where the reflector needs it to be. When I spent a lot of time looking at this for the bike, all the various H4 bulbs got a lot of flak for poor reliability and little output "on the road".
There are small(er) projector kits about now, sometimes even with a shutter to give a built in hi/lo beam pattern but they tend to be a bit long. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5-Inch-Motorc ... 1289787356
The retrofit ones in my car only cost £25 a pair, but are massive at nearly 6" long. The smaller ones I've seen are maybe an inch, inch n' a bit shorter? You can maybe scale off the drawing on the ebay site.
The various LED lamps are coming along in leaps and bounds. Several companies have developed H4 fittings, but again the output is a bit uncontrolled compared to a whole LED lamp unit and nothing like as much light down the road. They need a dedicated reflector system to function correctly. http://www.theonlinepartsshop.co.uk/sin ... ug-n-play/ As you can see, a bit spendy still. Would there be space for the fan unit behind the lamp?
Some cars are now coming with LED spot/fog lamps whether one of these could be sourced and made to fit?
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tonydevon
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the one I have has the shutter built into it, just a tiny red wire that you feed 12v live to and it moves the insides of the bulb
the wall is about 20m away, the headlight was just sat rested on top of a car battery hence the light up the wall LOL, althuogh my first test did show that it naturally put the beam very high, headlight really had to be pointed downwards, still to do more playing but I reckon that I can get it to work, but messnig with the angle of the bulb and spacing it in and out of the reflector, it wont work properly as its not the correct design, but should be good enough for use
the wall is about 20m away, the headlight was just sat rested on top of a car battery hence the light up the wall LOL, althuogh my first test did show that it naturally put the beam very high, headlight really had to be pointed downwards, still to do more playing but I reckon that I can get it to work, but messnig with the angle of the bulb and spacing it in and out of the reflector, it wont work properly as its not the correct design, but should be good enough for use
heavy is good, heavy is reliable, and if it does fail, hit them with it!!!