Good. The lamp in the photo is not lit. Because he would blind you. And as a motorcyclist you don't want to be blinded. With autumn approaching, I can even imagine that. Darkness, wetness, snow, falling leaves and falling motorcyclists. But riding with a fluorescent yellow or green vest? My system doesn't like that. And with a fluorescent helmet on my shoulders, I would feel like a mushroom that grew up too close to a Belgian nuclear power plant.
Pirates
During a conversation with someone who drives rally rides in the evening, I was told about the phenomenon of 'pirates'. That was not about illegal fireworks, illegal smoking materials or Captain Jack Sparrow's nephews, but about 100 Watt halogen lamps. And those things would be illegal for some obscure reason. "Just like Xenon lighting." Ha! I didn't know that either! However, Stefan was quite pleased with it. Moreover: he still had a set of spotlights with pirates left.
Do business tight
We finalized the deal on 'One crate' based on our usual payment method in these types of cases. When the spotlights were picked up, one of the two luminaires turned out to have left with a northern sun. Searching quietly, we compensated for the lack of swing-top bottles. The thing could not be found. We insisted that only one pirate would come on board. Connecting extra lighting can be done in many high-tech ways. Real connoisseurs are not afraid to use relays or to switch lamps in parallel over other lamps. Incredible but true. And it usually works.
'KISS': keep it simple stupid!
I prefer to draw two wires between the battery and the lamp. Switch in between. Floating fuse of - at first - 8 Amps in between. Ready. Now, of course, the lamp was used to living on a sturdy car bumper. Mounted on the polyester windshield, the thing gave a lot of light on the first test drive. But the case shook so that the light image resembled what a solid drugged person in the seventies must have seen on a wild night at a disco.
The lamp moved to a crash bar and so the second test flight was a success. The 100 Watts pirate pushed an impressive stretch of sunrise through the dark. My spotlight shone on an apparently freshly placed road sign while going through a long bend. Cutting myself when shaving had happened to me once. But blind myself in a continuous turn by the reflection of a road sign? That was new to me. It went well, but I was very hot for a while.
Oncoming vehicle in the far field
To restore the natural balance, a few days later someone else was very hot. The oncoming car in the flat polder land met me with cheering high lights. I gave him a high beam wink, but he didn't respond. It seemed with a strict plan at the time to clarify the matter with my little pirate. That made it pretty clear why those things are said to be illegal. My hallelujalogen light apparently blasted directly through the pupils of my oncoming vehicle against the inner wall of the back of his head, paralyzing his thinking muscle.
With the unpredictability so characteristic of autodebilists, the driver gave the wheel a tug and resolutely plunged into a freshly plowed field with his main beam still on.
Satisfied, I chased my sunrise and realized that the story could have turned out very differently if I had only had a fluorescent vest to wave to the automobile rabbit hunter. And should you hear a story during a birthday about such an anti-social motorcyclist with a scorching cornea lamp on his classic? Then this was the other side of the story.
A justified eye for an eye, lamp for lamp as the old Dutch proverb goes.
If you want a second fixture for the necessary balance, I probably still have it in front of you.
But I never ever do anything illegal myself, so you will have to take care of the "pirate" yourself.
like a mushroom that has grown too close to a Belgian nuclear power plant, I thought it was good
Great weather, this story. Nowadays I drive with a 80w yellow halogen bulb from chinese ali. Perfectly light, and very recognizable by the color. As a high beam I switch on an additional 10w LED. Light wink thus guarantees the desired effect.
Very recognizable.
At the time had an Escort mk4, with a broken light.
Along the local car dealer, and what should be original 60-55, turned out to be replaced by 110 -90 or therefore trend.
That is why I got so many complaints that my light was too high.
But it really gave a lot of light.
Disadvantage: the lights get hotter, and so do the plugs.
After a few years they were completely weathered.
So that temperature is a thing.
But try making a relay circuit between the normal lighting.
In many vehicles (such as my Audi 200 from 1986) all voltage for the lighting runs via the switch (small contacts, pitting, burning, sticking, etc.)
Many have now turned it into a relay circuit, resulting in 13 volts at the headlight instead of 9 volts that it was before.
And you can certainly see that too.
On my old Audi 50 I also had those pirates, 4 pieces.
Two in the original headlights and two in the additional Honda Accord (model 70s) headlights.
Delicious, what a light.
Only the dynamo did not work, 35A copy at that time on those cars.
So it was quickly replaced by a 100A copy of an Audi 100.
Never had a problem again ..
You are of course used to lighthouses! Did that book ever get to you again?