Headlight bulb

Clive said:
I have been using these successfully although first failed after 6 months.
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Clive. It's a luck of the draw. My original stock bulb in the 2013 plastic bucket only last me a couple of months itself. I replaced it with a basic Sylvania and it's been in there for a few years.
 
Agreed - I am very pleased with the light output and colour of the Philips and will continue to use them.
 
Clive , The H4 bulb I linked to earlier in this thread was for "Rough Service" it is not any brighter .
 
This may be a dumb question but my H4 bulb only comes on when the lights are on bright, I believe. Is that the bulb or the bike? (by the way I've been putting H4 Yellow bulb in my other bikes seems to work well for seeing and being seen).
 
As a lifelong motorcyclist, I learnt a thing or two on how to save myself money; one was to avoid using the headlight and their expensive bulbs in daylight, how? I simply go to a car breakers yard and get a perfectly serviceable fog light that bolts onto the bodywork. I make a flat bar L bracket that has a hole drilled out for the h/light mounting bolt, another hole at the top to fit another bar/bracket that has another hole in the middle to mount the fog light. Wired up, that 60w bulb is half the price of a 55/60 h/light bulb, only I use a brighter 80/100w H2 HTH
 
Bernhard said:
As a lifelong motorcyclist, I learnt a thing or two on how to save myself money; one was to avoid using the headlight and their expensive bulbs in daylight, how? I simply go to a car breakers yard and get a perfectly serviceable fog light that bolts onto the bodywork. I make a flat bar L bracket that has a hole drilled out for the h/light mounting bolt, another hole at the top to fit another bar/bracket that has another hole in the middle to mount the fog light. Wired up, that 60w bulb is half the price of a 55/60 h/light bulb, only I use a brighter 80/100w H2 HTH
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May we see it on the Norton??
 
A main headlamp bulb produces a narrow focused beam with the light being biased to the straight ahead position, this is not what is needed for daylight running. For daylight running you do not need the light to see where you are going but need the light to be seen by others, the best daylight light is a wide unfocused beam seem from a wide angle. You biggest danger during the daylight is vehicles approaching from the side entering your path, the wider the beam the more likely they are to see you and hopefully react. A high lumens bulb in the pilot light position will achieve this as it is unfocused, as will a fog light.

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I like using a headlamp bulb modulator . It really gets the attention of the car
drivers.

From wiki : A motorcycle headlamp modulator (or simply headlamp modulator) is an accessory device that oscillates the intensity of a motorcycle headlamp at 240 ±40 cycles per minute (~4 Hz)[1] between approximately 20% and 100% of full intensity. The headlight operates at full intensity 50-70% of the time.[2] United States and Canadian regulations require headlight modulators to include a light sensor that disables modulation when the ambient light level drops below a certain point. When this happens, the headlamps burn steadily.
 
Fast Eddie said:
My understanding was that they don’t get hotter unless you increase the wattage.

But by some ‘magic’ they can get 55w/65w bulbs to be brighter.

But, of course, this magic makes them more expensive.

Perhaps someone who knows about such things could enlighten us further (pun intended BTW)?
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I have an Yellow H4 bulb but it's 100/90 W will it be too hot?
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And crammed full of the bugs that get past the gap around the perimeter, fascinating design feature.
 
rod frost said:
I have an Yellow H4 bulb but it's 100/90 W will it be too hot?
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I ran a 65/100 watt headlight on my GoldWing for a while. I never had problem with the plastic headlight shell but the wiring sure got warm/hot. I had to run a dedicated circuit with relays to power it. Eventually switched over to LED. I’m not familiar with the 961 wiring, but if it’s like any other bike I have worked on all the power runs through the ignition switch and handle bar controls. That 100 watt draw is pretty substantial and might cause problems at some point in time.
Pete
 
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