Originally Posted by
TeamFA
This is why I don't run any spotlights or light bars... if you're using them on the road, they're great while you're using them, but as soon as you have to dip you are worse off.
I love this forum. We can all agree, or not. Having spent a good part of my 45 years with a Driver's Licence on the highways and bi-ways, I don't agree. I want the absolute best lights I can get for any situation. So, great high beams with switchable spotties. Switchable, because I won't always need them. Great low beams, something often overlooked, so that when I have to dip I can clearly pick up the roadside and delineators, so I don't run off. This is particularly important if the bloke coming the other way does not dip, something becoming increasingly more common. Great low beams so that I don't collide with a parked car or somesuch. Proper fog lights as well.
Originally Posted by
TeamFA
And when there's nothing oncoming, or when you're off-road, a good set of bulbs and dedicated wiring to the lights is plenty bright enough.
This is where I use my light bar. It's mounted high, so not legal to use on the road, where it's useless anyway, but up there it shows up troughs, ditches, washaways, low hanging branches, and also spreads so I can see alternative tracks or wheel marks. It gives no real depth of field though.
There have been a few disagreements on this forum about LEDs. I an quite happy with my LED lights on my D1. It is never going to be a highway tourer, but in the high country it's lights [ LED headlights, LED spotties and LED lightbar on the roof rack] work just fine. The D2 has all incandescent, with IPA spotties (one throw, one spread) and Phillips 'hanged if I can remember right now' HP globes. The spotties give good warning of upcoming junctions, provided they are signed, they pick up animal eyes, and throw light beyond my brakes, which I need.
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