Oye! - Sr Mejicano!

[barbagris]

Lupe.

IIRC you bought a set of those dual colour (white/yellow) LED spots.
Happy with them?

Just found a set here on Amazon - with fast delivery - I'm tempted.

[Mexican]

Actually, i bought the single color version, so happy that i already installed a set on the rocket, the indian and working on the bmw,

[barbagris]

Sudden drop in price on Amazon yesterday and a 20% coupon - dual coloured set delivered this PM.
I bought them more for the Guzzi tbh - hoping they really would be tiny. And they are.
I have an evil, cunning and not entirely legal plan that involves making them flash yellow/white.

[Mexican]

pics!!

[barbagris]

Patience. I am not the greybeard of old. I am now greybeard the old. I sleep lots more.
But importantly the sun shone today - I took the R3 for a ride.

[Mexican]

🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁

[1olbull]

Patience. I am not the greybeard of old. I am now greybeard the old. I sleep lots more.
But importantly the sun shone today - I took the R3 for a ride.

Sun is out here in Tacoma as well. I should be doing the same, but too damn lazy.

[barbagris]

Pics WILL happen - but first impression is - "kinell". The thing is that the beams are quite narrow - (Yes Steve, I will measure). The pattern is nice and tight and so where there is light - it's bright (Yes, Steve - I will measure!). Compared with other LED lights in the "R&D play" bin; Good. But they are NOT Speakers!. Where I remain a wee bit unconvinced - Active Cooling: Not sure that's going to survive much wet (esp mixed with salt).

And Greybeard has been sampling a new beer from his local brewer. A Smoked Blond Ale. Very quaff-able despite being 6.5%. Almost time to try the new Imperial IPA at 9%. Focusing might become an issue.

[1olbull]

Pics WILL happen - but first impression is - "kinell". The thing is that the beams are quite narrow - (Yes Steve, I will measure). The pattern is nice and tight and so where there is light - it's bright (Yes, Steve - I will measure!). Compared with other LED lights in the "R&D play" bin; Good. But they are NOT Speakers!. Where I remain a wee bit unconvinced - Active Cooling: Not sure that's going to survive much wet (esp mixed with salt).

And Greybeard has been sampling a new beer from his local brewer. A Smoked Blond Ale. Very quaff-able despite being 6.5%. Almost time to try the new Imperial IPA at 9%. Focusing might become an issue.

Smoked blonde ale? Are you moving toward putting from the ruff?
BTW - what are the Lux at 1 meter, 10 meter, 100 meter? 😜

[barbagris]

Smoked blonde ale? Are you moving toward putting from the ruff?
BTW - what are the Lux at 1 meter, 10 meter, 100 meter? 😜

The unit draws 1.4A at 13,3V - 18W more or less.
On the WHITE light beam Which I'd say is 5000Kelvin (sunlight colour) more or less. It's neither blueish nor yellowish.
At 1M - Extech on 40K range - reads about 20 +/- 1.3 - which I take as 20,000Lux.
At 5M . Extech on 4K range - reads about 700 +/ - 10 which I take as 700Lux.
On the Yellow Beam it's about 2000lux less at 1M.

Can't do any more as that means outside and the Sun right now is up and very very crisp clean air. No way to read a headlight.
100M needs darker sky than I have here.

[1olbull]

The unit draws 1.4A at 13,3V - 18W more or less.
On the WHITE light beam Which I'd say is 5000Kelvin (sunlight colour) more or less. It's neither blueish nor yellowish.
At 1M - Extech on 40K range - reads about 20 +/- 1.3 - which I take as 20,000Lux.
At 5M . Extech on 4K range - reads about 700 +/ - 10 which I take as 700Lux.
On the Yellow Beam it's about 2000lux less at 1M.

Can't do any more as that means outside and the Sun right now is up and very very crisp clean air. No way to read a headlight.
100M needs darker sky than I have here.

Amigo,
This should be done at night, on a level surface, with no measurable ambient light.
The brightest ray (steradian) at a given height is the lux reading you are looking for.
If you are going to do only one measurement, then do it at a 1 meter height.

Depending on the height of your readings, 20,000 lux at 10 meters, the practical visual identification distance is about 79 meters. If accurate, this is pretty good and similar to my old Daymakers, which tested at 80 meters (I haven't measured the Adaptive 2s).

[barbagris]

This should be done at night, on a level surface, with no measurable ambient light.

Yeah I know - but right now that's impossible. Steve.
We currently have a blanket 11PM-6AM curfew - COVID.
And finding anywhere UNLIT and LEVEL is an issue anywhere close. Not to mention it's bitter out at night right now (OK there - I mentioned it).

What is clear is how narrow the beams are compared to other generic stuff I've tested.
You will not be lighting tree-tops. Also due to how the internal leds are set the beam is not conical - there are actually 3 emitters per beam.

The thing is though they are tiny - very easy to find a place to fit them.
And for the price of 1 Erica (estimated 400USD) You'd easily get 20 (10 sets) of these little buggers. Probably closer to 30.

You know I like good lights. These are very much in the cheap and cheerful category.
And I am surprised at the strength of the yellow beam. Only 10% attenuation is not at all bad.

Here the issue as well is the bloody E-mark. AFAIK the Clearwater do not have them - nor do these. But most Speaker seem to.
Those would MAYBE make interesting cornering lights for bikes with integrated headlights that cannot be retrofitted with adaptive.
The Tilt sensor I have is WAY too sensitive - Found some interesting options yesterday.