Spyder headlamps.....my take on 'em...and LIGHTING in general

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shovelbill

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http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/cd/full.aspx?Page=26

Lmc has them

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man...thanks. i was gonna go on a quest tonight.

you guys sure help out this 'ol senile citizen! i'll order em with those clips too......mine were RTV'd to the bumper.

i'm glad it was something simple.....but i do need new tails...they're junk, rotten, broken and the lenses are crap......next week for those. i blew too much money this week.

happy fu@kin Bill now!
 

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not me. was the last thing on my mind.

not Phil's...i didn't think of it and my hands were ****** frozen solid.....he' an old wrench like me...didn't go to MMI like these kidchanics.......they wouldn't sent him to Milwaukee to the electronics class because he's a dinosaur they said......i sure busted their balls on that.

old outlaw, keeps it movin and has the second highest proficiency rate in the shop.......just spins wrenches and closes WO's.....he's the guy that worked on my softail with me......love him.
 

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Never in 100 years would I have imagined that... a new one to file in ye olde memory banks.

All in fun Bill. With all the fkd up, crazy stuff/people I see every day, gotta try to laugh as often as I can to keep myself from becoming the next guy that loses his **** and over-reacts to a situation on/off duty. Hobbies and projects help me stay busy and keep my mind occupied...for my family's sake.

Back to the lighting, LEDs are good for many things but for headlights? I dont get it.... personally, they screw with my depth perception and even though I cant actually see those diodes flicking on/off a million times, it does affect me after awhile, florescent lights also give me a stress headache after awhile.
 

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Never in 100 years would I have imagined that... a new one to file in ye olde memory banks.

All in fun Bill. With all the fkd up, crazy stuff/people I see every day, gotta try to laugh as often as I can to keep myself from becoming the next guy that loses his **** and over-reacts to a situation on/off duty. Hobbies and projects help me stay busy and keep my mind occupied...for my family's sake.

Back to the lighting, LEDs are good for many things but for headlights? I dont get it.... personally, they screw with my depth perception and even though I cant actually see those diodes flicking on/off a million times, it does affect me after awhile, florescent lights also give me a stress headache after awhile.

over-reactin is over-rated......i gave up on that when i gave up drinkin........i learned to laugh at **** that ain't funny....a good habit from an bad old lifesytle........i keep myself busy and sane for my sake.....i can't be there for my family if i'm not present and calm.

i feel ya on the depth perception....it's too....too stark......when i'm out camping or in the woods or such i still carry an old Mag Light for casual use.......LED flashlights are GREAT for disorientating and blinding people, long life and MASSIVE light in a small package, but in a tactical situation i think it's similar to the mind trying to relax looking at a strobe light on acid listening to Sabbath......know what i mean? too "edgy" for my eyes....no comfort......shadows make me second guess what i saw....or thought i saw.

tis why i like amber fog lights......it relaxes my eyes and ME in a stressful driving situation.....i don't give a fu@k what the "experts" on some of these forums say about that either......rain, snow and fog are more ominous in white light.....reflective and distracting too.

not only do i have about a 1/2 million miles under my ass on a Harley, but i was a profession tow driver for over 13 years......and 7 of those years were on the 7PM-7AM+ shift......i'm very comfortable riding or driving at night......especially when it's just me on my sled.....or in my truck with some blues and jazz.

i'm SO looking forward to riding behind these Cibie Z-beams man.......i CAN dig a "tad" whiter 3700K light from these new halogen bulbs. 5000K i can't stand and 6000K is just plumb uncomfortable to me.
 

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Hoe-lee sheep $hit! (name that movie)

Never in 100 years would I have imagined that... a new one to file in ye olde memory banks.

All in fun Bill. With all the fkd up, crazy stuff/people I see every day, gotta try to laugh as often as I can to keep myself from becoming the next guy that loses his **** and over-reacts to a situation on/off duty. Hobbies and projects help me stay busy and keep my mind occupied...for my family's sake.

Back to the lighting, LEDs are good for many things but for headlights? I dont get it.... personally, they screw with my depth perception and even though I cant actually see those diodes flicking on/off a million times, it does affect me after awhile, florescent lights also give me a stress headache after awhile.

I can see flicker on LED Xmas lights... but on a vehicle, I have never experienced it. Typically the PWM frequency is much, much higher than the 60 hz flicker on a set of xmas lights, where the diode is 'off' 60 x a second.

Some of the vehicular LED headlights have too much foreground light, with not enough reach compared to other technologies. That, plus the fact that the majority of the emitted wavelengths are heavily in the blue / green area, deficient of red make for poor color rendering, compared to halogen.

I know I linked a CRI index chart of different light sources a while back, but it's likely buried in this thread.

I can't stand most all LCD and LED televisions, they have terrible motion artifacts, and artificial edge enhancement, which looks unnatural. An LED television is nothing more than an LCD with a LED backlight, and relies on individual cells 'shutting' off the visible light to create black.

My 720P plasma burns a bit more hydro, but I love the smoothness, and the detail in the black levels. I did my best effort to calibrate it with a test disc by eye, I don't have access to a colorimeter, so it is not 'accurate'. My projector is a single chip DLP unit with a ~300 watt halogen burner, again I used a test disc to calibrate it as close as I can.

Funny thing is if you showed someone a properly calibrated television or projector in a dark room, they would complain it isn't bright enough. Same goes for a showroom, they will go for the retina burning television that is way, way out to lunch, parked next to a calibrated display.

If you can swing it, having a display device calibrated by an ISF ( Imaging Science Foundation ) technician is the real deal. They have access to hidden menus that the average person does not, since maladjustment of some parameters can cause permanent damage to the set.
 
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