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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 12:47 AM
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I'm looking at the Sunpie lights. I like the look of the Halo. Is it any different from the lights without ? I like the look of the Halo. I know everyone is raving about the LED lights. Just looking for info. What does everyone like and would you change your choice if you could now? Thanks.
 
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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 05:37 AM
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The Halo portion is just for looks.
I run the daymaker, I've tried the TL7, and the 8690A.
The Daymaker is what I keep going back to it seems to work best for me.
 
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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 04:25 PM
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That's what I thought. Thanks for the reply.
 
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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 05:12 PM
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Some guys think the halo helps light up the side of the road...I think it does a little but not enough to give any notice of something coming out of the weeds. I put a decent quality LED into the housing an it made a noticeable improvement. Now I see some LED ones with the halo build in.
 
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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 05:19 PM
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IMO the only thing a halo does is make you more visible to oncoming traffic, there is no added forward lighting re your vision
 
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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 06:55 PM
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The headlamp 1st thing I replace on ALL my bikes with LED.
 
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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 07:51 PM
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Has anyone used the Future Vision LED headlight?
 
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Old Nov 22, 2017 | 08:14 PM
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Eagle Lights! 1/2 the price of HD and they are almost exactly the same.

https://www.eaglelites.com/
 
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100% no. halo does nothing but make you look like a cliche. i ran through some many headlights and keep coming back to quality and engineering over shenanigans and the kitchen sink. JW Speaker.

want a halo, at least get the meanest one out there. the custom dynamics trubeam/ vision x vortex... stupid amounts of light, seriously.

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/sport...l#post15650982
 

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After doing a lot of searches on various forums it seems the 2 top LED replacement lights are as "cvaria" indicated the JW Speaker and Vortex X.
It seems personnel choice over which would be better, I'm leaning now towards the Vortex #XMC-7RD (chrome) with the #P-HLHI4 which allows low and high beam on at the same time for 4200 lumens.
 
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