Thread: New dyno headlights with high beams
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Old 09-16-24 | 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by unterhausen
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Anyway, I liked this bit from Peter White:
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In low beam, the headlight is rated at 300 lux, the brightest dynamo powered headlight ever! That's three times as bright as the IQ-X. There's a handlebar mounted switch to change to a high beam. At high beam the brightness rating drops to a mere 250 lux. ;-)
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So, high beam has less light than low beam? Hmmmm, I wonder why nobody thought of that before?
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