where can I get decent 7" h4 or better head lamps

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where can I get a decent 7" H4 or better head lamp for my bikes? See wiring tips for the discussion. Wagner and Hella spread the light too far. Who wants to know what the possums are doing 20 feet up in the trees? I want to see the road ahead. I run twin relays so the brightness is all there. For right hand drive countries. We drive in the left that is.
 
Nowadays the LED's top the charts but short of HIR discharge and laser lights coming of age this one really impressed me for putting light down and wide with great center long range brightness where you need to see. Can get em with LED ring too.

http://www.jpcycles.com/product/310-076
 
I've tried the simpler plug in halogen bulbs for some extra light but still on candle yellow side as seen in parades after dark at Norton rallies. Jim Comstocks burns as bright as modern cars with a bluish tint.

Sales details on the Candlepower sealed unit.
https://www.google.com/#q=candlepower+headlight
 
Do you know if these candlepower lights mentioned are for LHD or RHD?. From the look of the lens you cant tell. Someone did mention its the way the bulb fits in the light unit, but in NZ all I have seen are the ones with the specially designed lenses which cut the light off at the horizontal on the RHS of the beam when dipped. These are specifically RHD units.
 
kerinorton said:
Do you know if these candlepower lights mentioned are for LHD or RHD?. From the look of the lens you cant tell. Someone did mention its the way the bulb fits in the light unit, but in NZ all I have seen are the ones with the specially designed lenses which cut the light off at the horizontal on the RHS of the beam when dipped. These are specifically RHD units.
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From a manufacturing perspective, I wouldn't think it is the bulb mount that determines the dip, but rather the lens. It would be much cheaper to make a single bowl, and flip the cut of the lens.

gortnipper said:
Right Hand Drive (dips to the left)

where can I get decent 7" h4 or better head lamps


Left Hand Drive (dips to the right)

where can I get decent 7" h4 or better head lamps
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The CandlePower I posted and purchased is sold mostly to American HD riders so this one is biased for LH lane traffic lighting and made me grin when aiming it out my pasture to see more pasture and fence line 250 yrd out better than all 4 of my car headlights I swing out that way looking for deer to surprise. Its the sharpest best light pattern I've seen so far and not as glare back as the fancy new cars HIDs or LEDs. It is fitted in to Peel's big fairly and will use LEDs when going w/o the fairing.
 
JW Speaker do some pretty amazing LED headlights. Starting to see them filter through to some of the custom bikes now, not just Harleys.

Take a look here: bit.ly/1nzVphV

:shock: they are $1300 though :shock:

where can I get decent 7" h4 or better head lamps
 
Hi there, thanks for all your replys. I am communicating with Scot @ JP spares right now. These Candle Power lights you mentioned Steve, dip straight down. That is ok with the current regulations in NZ. Just been talking to one of the guys at VTNZ Kerikeri and he read the regs out to me. Now its just a matter of finding out how much it will cost to get one or maybe some more out to NZ. HOW MANY NORTON OWNERS IN NZ ARE LOOKING AT THIS. WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED.
Steve, How much better that the std H4 units are these ones . @ $70.00 US plus freight they are going to cost more than twice the amount of the ones I am now using but they say quality costs more.

The Cibie light looks like it will cost 46 uk pounds, bulb 8.2 uk pounds and fright about 30 uk pounds. [ $170.00 nz approx. ] how does this light compare to the Candle power ones Steve has mentioned.
 
hobot said:
The CandlePower I posted and purchased is sold mostly to American HD riders so this one is biased for LH lane traffic lighting and made me grin when aiming it out my pasture to see more pasture and fence line 250 yrd out better than all 4 of my car headlights I swing out that way looking for deer to surprise. Its the sharpest best light pattern I've seen so far and not as glare back as the fancy new cars HIDs or LEDs. It is fitted in to Peel's big fairly and will use LEDs when going w/o the fairing.
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Hey man if they are really that good, we need to get them. See my previous post.
 
jeffdavison said:
Here's a good source. Also, there is a bulb with a city light availabel :

http://www.rallylights.com/all/lights/h ... facturer=4


Here is what I use

http://www.rallylights.com/all/lights/h ... -lamp.html from Dereck, the only thing I don't like about sealed beams id that if you break the glass, its stuffed. I you break the glas with a semisealed beam, you have a chance the the bulb is still ok. and you can still ride in the dark and get home.

and I have this H4 LED on my workbench to be installed this week:

http://electricalconnection.com/other-l ... -hl-h4.htm

JD
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jeffdavison said:
Here's a good source. Also, there is a bulb with a city light availabel :

http://www.rallylights.com/all/lights/h ... facturer=4


Here is what I use

http://www.rallylights.com/all/lights/h ... -lamp.html

and I have this H4 LED on my workbench to be installed this week:

http://electricalconnection.com/other-l ... -hl-h4.htm

In reference to your LED bulb, looks good, but in my case, the fault is with the light units themselves and where they send the light. This LED bulb you are about to use may simply put more light everywhere the H4 bulb does now. How about getting it on your bike and letting us know the results and giving us you impression of how much difference it makes. Look forward to hearing from you. I think David may be keen to find out as well. regards and all the best Dereck
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I got one from Classic Allparts Sydney, ( still to be fitted) dipped for traveling on the correct side of the Road.
Peter
 
These Candlepower dont have a pilot though, do they?

Dereck - anything special on the NZ regs you found out?
 
I've not ridden with the Candlepower lamp but its good enough from my test comparison place I ain't looking for more light within hi beam range and width. The version I got cost over $70. Hella specs are great too so who knows except both likely rather better than most others - excepting the HID like comnoz or LEDs that look like a spider eyes. Not necessarily a bad image just not vintage image. Peel will look rat bike hill climber crude vintage when paired down but plan to have arachnoid vision as so compact won't have to remove to put fairing with CandlePower lamp over em. Peel does have two 55 watt pencil beams with LED rings and rod like sorbes to back up the main lamp as I tend to hit 80's in fear of deer side strikes after dark. No Lights will reveal the animal that leaps from side on ya so in my case if I see em first I can aim at them first which spooks em to change their ways in time. Studies have shown deer do not recognize something approaching them unless they see legs pumping so good light just makes em cock their heads till so close your zooming is size freaks them in all directions. Peel will get a set of LED strips that send light pulses up and down so deer might see it as danger aimed at them. Of course once blunderbusses and video mounted I'll leave em off to surprise em closer.

where can I get decent 7" h4 or better head lamps
 
Hi Peter, how does it compare and what make/ type is it.

Does anyone else out there live near these shops to be able to get them to demonstrate how good or bad these lights are. We are so far away and the cost of freight is 1/2 the cost of the parts so it would be nice to know we are getting something really good.
Hobot says the candle power ones are shit hot and that he can see 250 yards ahead. I can see that far ahead with the ones I have but too much light is wasted looking up into the trees. The light straight ahead is not dense enough and the machines used to test for effectiveness at the testing stations in NZ are not able to measure that. According to them, mine are perfect. Well according to what came out on the original bikes they are absolutely marvellous.

I remember doing a ride from Picton to Mapua and being passed by an RD350 or something. I could not see very well going over the Whangamoa or the Rai Saddles, and to make maters worse, the 350"s light cast my shadow round our own light beam. That was 30 years ago with my young wife on the back. She's still cute but the seat is too hard. Yeh I know Hobot .Ride solo.
 
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