Bright Headlight for Winter - Recommendations?

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When I was a kid we used to go to Italy for summer holidays in the caravan, I always noticed the yellow headlights when driving across France, very conspicuous as no other countries appeared to use them.

 

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get yellow sunglasses lenses or eat more carrots

 

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[MikelBikel]

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i cant see jack at night with tinted lenses why i used yellow ones in winter at night makes the light brighter as well

i cant even use headphones while riding my bike fkn phozo still walked straight in to me tho

 

[MikelBikel]

Maybe polarised with/out photochromic are an option?
And/Or If it Only filtered above 3500K, blue?

 

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if you look on the Oakley site have a look at there prism lenses tho there not cheap but have a lens for every light condition.

i have a road lens for my jawbreakers and a off road one and if you go off road with the road lens as soon as you go under trees it goes black like turning the light off and ruts and pot holes turn in to black holes you have no idea how deep they are

 

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I haven't seen any yellow headlights being used in the UK for years. Weirdly, I've seen more blue headlights, on vans and lorries. Perhaps I can get away with yellowfying just one headlight, leaving the others au naturel? What's the worst that could happen? I could offer to turn the yellow one off, if stopped by fuzzballs (they're all bearded like Jesus now), or unscrew the headlight lid and remove the yellow heat resistant acetate sheet.

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Magicshine Lights | eBay

2 x headlights ! MJ 906 5000 lumens MJ 902s 3000 lumens EBike ready with a Shimano and a Bosch cable Tail light Wireless remote switch Mains charger Battery pack Various nylon straps and o rings Original hard case and user manual

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The motor bike light arrived, crikey it's big and sturdy, wired it up to my bench supply at 12V and fuk me I almost blinded myself and am not even kidding....

Not wired a 3 pole switch to a 3 pole lamp before and no wiring diagram on product page or in box, did some probing with multimeter and as red appears common on switch I need to do this, right?

 

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This is switch.

One of switch black cables has a white line down it (bad photo) that is WHITE

 

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Well had a go, not rocket science is it to work out but took longer than it should off.

 

[guerney]

For wiring simplicity of my five lights, and to save solder, I went with two wire connections - switch your new headlight on and off with just the red and black, you'll cycle through three modes: bright constant, blight flashing, dim constant. I have one switch to rule them all. I call that master switch "Igor", and snigger all evil like Igor whenever I flick that switch, and laugh "It's alive! ALIIIIIIVE!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!" like Dr.Frankenstein when my monster lights awaken. Various combinations are possible. I can get them all flashing by turning on, then quickly off and on again, or cycle all to dim (I never dim). This wasn't my original plan, because contrary to the AliExpress listing, light 3 only works up to 32V, so it's in series with light 2. Lights 2, 3 and 4 are on all the time. I can switch light 1 to flashing during the day, or keep constant at night. The red 1800LM flasher, I sometimes keep constant. Being able to make them all flash quickly is useful, puts off gremlins stalking in cars circling like sharks howling like banshees, as happened late one dark night on a lonely road. There may have been howling wind and tumbleweeds, I can't recall. Turns out, gremlins really don't like bright flashing lights, just like in the movie.

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I've been meaning to get around to reorganising the lights switches and wiring for more independent control, possibly buying another (maybe switching out the 70LUX [light 4] on the fork for yet another 1800LM), another change will be to put two or three of those apparently unreliable (according to the Grin dude in the video below, that dude should know with 20 year's battery integrator's industry perspectve of battery fires - seems weirdly cheerful when delivering bad news, but looks trustworthy) blade fuses (or unreliable fuse seating) in series.





I'll probably do this eventually:

 

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The motor bike light arrived, crikey it's big and sturdy, wired it up to my bench supply at 12V and fuk me I almost blinded myself and am not even kidding....

The sturdy aluminium case gets hot, a good hadwarmer in winter. Looks much less bright shone on tarmac, which of course largely absorbs light.

 

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For wiring simplicity of my five lights, and to save solder, I went with two wire connections - switch your new headlight on and off with just the red and black, you'll cycle through three modes: bright constant, blight flashing, dim constant. I have one switch to rule them all. I call that master switch "Igor", and snigger all evil like Igor whenever I flick that switch, and laugh "It's alive! ALIIIIIIVE!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!" like Dr.Frankenstein when my monster lights awaken. Various combinations are possible. I can get them all flashing by turning on, then quickly off and on again, or cycle all to dim (I never dim). This wasn't my original plan, because contrary to the AliExpress listing, light 3 only works up to 32V, so it's in series with light 2. Lights 2, 3 and 4 are on all the time. I can switch light 1 to flashing during the day, or keep constant at night. The red 1800LM flasher, I sometimes keep constant. Being able to make them all flash quickly is useful, puts off gremlins stalking in cars circling like sharks howling like banshees, as happened late one dark night on a lonely road. There may have been howling wind and tumbleweeds, I can't recall. Turns out, gremlins really don't like bright flashing lights, just like in the movie.

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With the 3 position switch I got it's either off/on/flash so no need to cycle through various modes to get what you want, can just click switch - I agree though that becomes a pain in the arse especially if you have a multiple light setup to switch them all on the get it in the mode you want, one 'kill' switch for them all is a good idea

I'm going to try Tinkercad for circuit design and see if it's any good, gotta be better than paint ;-)

 

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I use the Cateye Volt 1700, and it’s a game changer. It lights up the road with a focused beam, not a scattered mess, and the 1700 lumens give me confidence at higher speeds. The replaceable battery pack is a plus if you ride long distances.

If it's the Cateye I found on amazon looks decent but it's very expensive?

I went with that motor bike lamp as I can take a feed from 52V battery using a female kettle socket on end of lamp direct from battery via XT-60 splitter, I have a female kettle plug dual QC USB charger (in pic) so I just unplug it and plug in lamp cable harness I will be making.

Then I don't have to carry an external battery pack, I measured using multimeter and the lamp pulls just under 1.5A ON and approx 1A FLASH so it won't affect bike performance as KT controller is 17A continuous 35A peak ;-)

 

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my 8000lm magicshine light with 6 18650 cells on max power would not last 60 mins on full power.

think i might have a xhp70 12v led somewhere but at max amps u need a pc heat sink on it

 

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With the 3 position switch I got it's either off/on/flash so no need to cycle through various modes to get what you want, can just click switch - I agree though that becomes a pain in the arse especially if you have a multiple light setup to switch them all on the get it in the mode you want, one 'kill' switch for them all is a good idea

The master switch (Igor) is really fast to access, located directly above my right thumb on the handlebar, and the others are next to it, so it's really quick to cycle through modes if needed. Fewer wires.

Then I don't have to carry an external battery pack, I measured using multimeter and the lamp pulls just under 1.5A ON and approx 1A FLASH so it won't affect bike performance as KT controller is 17A continuous 35A peak ;-)

That's higher amperage than mine measured (at a little under 32V). It's been at least a year since I bought mine, looks the same but innards are probably completely different.

I should measure my lights together, in case that 2A fuse is a dud. Will get around to it.

I'm going to try Tinkercad for circuit design and see if it's any good, gotta be better than paint ;-)

I only used that circuitous website because my sketching isn't as neat as yours, and because I haven't installed Vizio on this PC yet.

The M-VAVE wireless radio is nuts, can walk around flat with guitar blasting out distortion from amp in living room...sooo much fun....seems to have a decent range as old tenement walls are thick, also liking the small case that charges the Tx and Rx and also it will charge them fully twice from the battery in the case, pretty cool, you can run 4 sets of them together so will be buying more! Has 1/4inch adapter on top of 3.5mm so you can basically make any audio device wireless
So far: 10/10

Talking of transmitters, I need to buy a bluetooth transmitter for the PC and laptop via the mixer - at the mo, my bluetooth "Sports" headset (ASDA, reduced to £4) is connected to my phone, which receives FM transmission via a 2XAAA powered Belkin adapter. The FM radio app refuses to function unless you plug in headphones to act as an aerial. I didn't think it'd work but it does lol, however, range pf FM isn't great, so the phone has to be kept near the Belkin FM transmitter. I could use my (much longer range and much clearer than bluetooth) Sennheiser RD120 FM wireless headphones, but they're uncomfortable when pottering around for long periods of time doing sweat inducing stuff, than the neckband "Sports" bluetoothers. Like a lot of other cheap tat, AliExpress bluetooth transmitters are beguilingly dirt cheap at the mo.

 

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I measured using multimeter and the lamp pulls just under 1.5A ON and approx 1A FLASH

I should measure my lights together, in case that 2A fuse is a dud. Will get around to it.

Deleted a post because I'd done it wrong, electrickery really aint my thing. It's nice nothing blew up this time.

I have 5 lights connected to my 36V ebike battery, and with all of them on constant mode (my rough guesstimate last year was approx this):





Without the rear 1800LM red flasher:





With flasher switched off, and one 1800LM on the handlebar switched off:





The above is the amperage being drawn by the minimum level of lighting, which I keep switched on at all times day and night ie one 2400LM + one 1800LM + one 70LUX on the fork. These lights are useful for running down the battery with for storage. Now to solder on extra fuses...