Summary About Lights

yoyo

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Sadly not normal in the UK, I love the look of the bike with the turn signals always lit but in the UK only Honda do it.

I might have to invest in a set of US spec turn signals!

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Electrolyse

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The lights look great. Between winter and hand surgery, I haven't been out riding yet. I did have to order a set of cap extensions to make them fix.
Hello Lstayner,

what cap extensions you are thinking off, I'm still undecided about what kind/brand of LED I should buy.

thanks
 

Lstayner

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corwyna

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Last night I installed some Novsight 10,000 lumen (5,000 each) lights on my 2012 Super T. They were only $23.99 on Amazon so it was worth a shot at getting better illumination. I didn't think the stock lamps were very good. These are the ones I installed. They have the little cooling fans in them.
NovSight.jpg

Here are the before and after pics of how they looked. These are the stock bulbs, low beam on the left, high on the right...
Stock_Pair.jpg

And the Novsight pair...
NovSight_Pair.jpg
It doesn't look like it that much in the pictures, but the Novasights are definitely brighter. The most noticeable difference is that the new bulbs don't have the lumpy light projection that the stock set has which leaves dark patches on the road. The new lights are much more uniform, and they don't have the sharp cutoff of the stock low beams. That said, I was hoping for more of a "light up the night" effect from the Novasights based on their videos. Perhaps I was expecting too much and should just turn on the PIAAs for more light as needed. The install was a bit tricky as there isn't much room to get the wire clamp and connector out of the way and the new bulb situated and clamped in. I ended up going in from the front, taking out the headlight assembly to get at them. That was much easier. The new lights did require the extended caps. I bought a 3D printed pair off eBay. The first one went on fairly easily but I had trouble getting the tabs of the 2nd one to "catch" in the slots. Ended up breaking off two of the three tabs so that one is junk. I ordered a new set from Italy for unfortunately about three times the price. They are billed as being molded hard plastic rather than 3D printed so I'm hoping they will better stand up to my ham-handed treatment. In summary, I think the Novsights are a satisfactory upgrade for 24 bucks.
 

Electrolyse

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Wish I could use those in Switzerland, I have to check with authorities.

Regarding the US laws, it is legally possible for you to change headlights ?
Don't you have a 1 or 2 years technical control there ?
 

Cycledude

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First stock headlight bulb in my 2018 Tenere burned out last week at 23,400 miles, replaced it with Novsight LED bought off Amazon. The Novsight is definitely a little more difficult to install but after doing it a couple times it gets easier. But now I’m wondering what position that tab on the bulb is supposed to be in ? The tab on the stock left bulb was in the 6 o’clock position and the right bulb was in the 9 o’clock position. I installed the new LED in the 7 o’clock position. I’m going to wait for the right side bulb to burn out before replacing it.
On my Honda Goldwing there is a slot for that tab so the bulb only fits one way.
 

SHUMBA

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First stock headlight bulb in my 2018 Tenere burned out last week at 23,400 miles, replaced it with Novsight LED bought off Amazon. The Novsight is definitely a little more difficult to install but after doing it a couple times it gets easier. But now I’m wondering what position that tab on the bulb is supposed to be in ? The tab on the stock left bulb was in the 6 o’clock position and the right bulb was in the 9 o’clock position. I installed the new LED in the 7 o’clock position. I’m going to wait for the right side bulb to burn out before replacing it.
On my Honda Goldwing there is a slot for that tab so the bulb only fits one way.
I rode a 2018 Super Tenere for two years...one of my biggest criticisms of the bike was those OEM crappy halogen or whatever lights.
Very poor lighting.
I added two LED lights at 3,450 lumens each onto my crash bars.
Now I'm riding a 2020 Africa Twin DCT model with OEM LED'S along with additional LED'S for daytime visibility...grrrrr.... damn cagers
Oh boy, don't miss the weight of the Tenere, but sure miss the shaft
SHUMBA

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WJBertrand

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I gave up on the poor light & lifetime of incandescent bulbs. I didn’t find LEDs much better. Brighter but strange pattern and for me only lasted a little longer than OEM. I don’t think powerful LEDs with fans and or heat sinks do well longevity wise in a closed internally wired headlight assembly. The thing with LEDs is they start loosing light output, but the Kelvin color remains the same so they look bright to stare at them but can get to a point where there’s not much light being put on the road.

I had HIDs on my ST1300 and they were great. The bulbs were still going after 100,000 miles. I recently fitted and HID kit to my Ténéré and will get a chance to see how they work in the dark this weekend. They look to put out quite a bit more light than the LEDs I just took out in my garage at least.

Thanks to Tobasco for the kit recommendation and some troubleshooting help.


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I gave up on the poor light & lifetime of incandescent bulbs. I didn’t find LEDs much better. Brighter but strange pattern and for me only lasted a little longer than OEM. I don’t think powerful LEDs with fans and or heat sinks do well longevity wise in a closed internally wired headlight assembly. The thing with LEDs is they start loosing light output, but the Kelvin color remains the same so they look bright to stare at them but can get to a point where there’s not much light being put on the road.

I had HIDs on my ST1300 and they were great. The bulbs were still going after 100,000 miles. I recently fitted and HID kit to my Ténéré and will get a chance to see how they work in the dark this weekend. They look to put out quite a bit more light than the LEDs I just took out in my garage at least.

Thanks to Tobasco for the kit recommendation and some troubleshooting help.


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what is hid light and witch model did you bought .
thanks !
do you need a ballast or outer box ?
 

WJBertrand

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what is hid light and witch model did you bought .
thanks !
do you need a ballast or outer box ?
HID stands for Hight Intensity Discharge. There is no filament or element in the bulb, the light is created by an electric high voltage arc.

Installation is more involved than other lighting systems as you need to mount both a ballast and an igniter for each bulb. I bought a 35w (per bulb) kit from The Retrofit Source made by Morimoto. I bought the kit on Amazon.


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