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Originally Posted by white-rabbit Come on guys,no body got any ideas?No body interested in DIY mods? |
Being with a Bi-xenon HID projector for almost 2 years on my bike I would say, if you are tourer, your needs will be very much sacrificed with a bi-xenon projector. In cars, its some what better than the stock halogens especially low beam but when it comes to high beam, its a pain to see the distant peripheral due to the projector's legal cut off design. Its not opening fully even on the high beam, the shield and the solenoid is sitting in the middle of the projector.
This pic will tell you more:
The entire thing sits inside the reflector
Unit dismantled
The shield which enables high & low, note the size of the shield and imagine the opening window.
When it comes to a bike, the mounting position is too higher than its mounting on a car, so ineffect its positioned downwards to light up the vehicle surroundings, if you mount it parallel your low beam will be sacrificed and your low beam will be acting as high but not as a good high beam. If you put it on high beam it will light up the tree tops instead of lighting up the road ahead. I guess you've got what I meant. This is why most of the cars are using a combo of projector low +reflector high which offers unmatched low beam spread from projector with a high penetrating pencil beam from reflector.
I would suggest you to go for a halogen upgrade than going for a cheap/reputed HID conversion kits as its totally illegal and blinding others and last and not the least, it will reduce the distant visibility by putting on the reflectors as the optics design, focus and the light source are different for a HID to get a better output. Halogens are the best for our weather conditions as most of the retrofit HID kits are 6000K and above which is not good for visibility in extreme weathers like rain and fog.
If still cant take off your eyes from the HID conversion kits, there's a good news, a round reflector emits less glares than the other shaped ones due to its perfect pencil beam ability, but a polarized glass will make it worse. If you can source a clear lens like TBTS, it will be a good upgrade.
The link you've provided shows its got only 30days warranty, which shows its not a good one else, they could give you a min of 6months warranty. There are kits available for 1200 onwards, so make a survey before settling for a useless CT. Go for 4300K which is close to day time light and gives you better visibility. Add to bit more spice, other CTs are cop magnets as they can easily differentiate the color from far. Search for nearby accessory shops for a 1 yr warranty stuff by paying couple of bucks more and its easy to negotiate with them in case if you have an issue with the kit.
I hope your ride is a full DC one, am not aware of a bull much as I belong to new gen bikes category.