LED Headlight on Dyna Question.
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LED Headlight on Dyna Question.
Howdy folks,
Dropped my scooter off at my local Indie and was showing him the new LED headlight. He was impressed and then asked, "Why does the low beam shut off when the high comes on?" I had no answer and he made sense when he figured that the light would be even better with both on.
What do you guys say? Good idea? Bad idea? Wreck the light idea? What say ye?
Pat (Have I told you lately that I love my Dyna?)
Dropped my scooter off at my local Indie and was showing him the new LED headlight. He was impressed and then asked, "Why does the low beam shut off when the high comes on?" I had no answer and he made sense when he figured that the light would be even better with both on.
What do you guys say? Good idea? Bad idea? Wreck the light idea? What say ye?
Pat (Have I told you lately that I love my Dyna?)
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Howdy folks,
Dropped my scooter off at my local Indie and was showing him the new LED headlight. He was impressed and then asked, "Why does the low beam shut off when the high comes on?" I had no answer and he made sense when he figured that the light would be even better with both on.
What do you guys say? Good idea? Bad idea? Wreck the light idea? What say ye?
Pat (Have I told you lately that I love my Dyna?)
Dropped my scooter off at my local Indie and was showing him the new LED headlight. He was impressed and then asked, "Why does the low beam shut off when the high comes on?" I had no answer and he made sense when he figured that the light would be even better with both on.
What do you guys say? Good idea? Bad idea? Wreck the light idea? What say ye?
Pat (Have I told you lately that I love my Dyna?)
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I believe it's illegal to have any other forward lights on when the high beam is on, including fog lights.
Not sure if it is true, but I believe this is due to legality, but more importantly heat build up in the housing. Just throwing in my 2 cents...
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Yeah, the legality issue is a consideration, a minor one, but a consideration none the less. The heat build up has my attention. Even LED's do build up heat and this particular light is certainly a sealed unit, with what appear to be cooling fins on the body of the unit. Interesting!!
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I wouldn't attempt to run this lamp with both high and low beams active. It pulls 1.71 amps at 13.1 volts. That's 22.4 watts of pure heat (very little of that wattage is actually converted to light). I ran it on my kitchen counter for several hours and that heatsink got too hot to hold onto. I can only imagine how hot it would get with both high and low lit with it mounted INSIDE THE HEADLIGHT BUCKET.
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That's three thanks to you my friend. I was checking out the beam last night as I rode and it would be nice to have the low on at the same time but I'm not so sure that it matters that much. I just find that when I'm on high beam, it would be nice to have more flood or spill that I currently have.
Once again, thanks Romeo for the heads up on the heat. I had a feeling that this was the case.
Pat who will NOT be wiring them in tandem.
Pat
Once again, thanks Romeo for the heads up on the heat. I had a feeling that this was the case.
Pat who will NOT be wiring them in tandem.
Pat
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