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2016 A adding LEDs to Turn Angle light location
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<blockquote data-quote="SacramentoMike" data-source="post: 1274534" data-attributes="member: 11508"><p>I've thought about those cornering lights quite a bit since seeing them described on the '16. Believe it's a great idea to have that extra light in the turns, but for me, completely unnecessary. I have Clearwater Krista LEDs that project a wide cone of light, with most of it focused in the center, but really lighting up pretty much everything anywhere to my front (meaning about 180o of illumination). I think it was on their website that the light is concentrated 85% in the center of the cone and the rest very wide-spread. Riding through the woods in the dark, for example, you get all the bushes and shrubs on the roadside very well lit right up till you're passing them, and of course, that also lights well into every curve.</p><p></p><p>With all that light spilling out everywhere, you might expect they'd be annoying to other drivers, but I am almost <em>never </em>"flashed" for offending somebody's night vision. This might be an expensive fix for this issue, but the wide light pattern is just one of the many benefits of these lights.</p><p></p><p>But more on the subject, couldn't you connect those small LED "turn illuminators" to your turn signal circuit? If you didn't mind "signalling" for every curve in the road when you ride in the dark. So why not just mount these lights facing slightly outward and leave them on all the time? Simplest solution, you'd have the extra conspicuity, and you'd never have to think about them at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SacramentoMike, post: 1274534, member: 11508"] I've thought about those cornering lights quite a bit since seeing them described on the '16. Believe it's a great idea to have that extra light in the turns, but for me, completely unnecessary. I have Clearwater Krista LEDs that project a wide cone of light, with most of it focused in the center, but really lighting up pretty much everything anywhere to my front (meaning about 180o of illumination). I think it was on their website that the light is concentrated 85% in the center of the cone and the rest very wide-spread. Riding through the woods in the dark, for example, you get all the bushes and shrubs on the roadside very well lit right up till you're passing them, and of course, that also lights well into every curve. With all that light spilling out everywhere, you might expect they'd be annoying to other drivers, but I am almost [I]never [/I]"flashed" for offending somebody's night vision. This might be an expensive fix for this issue, but the wide light pattern is just one of the many benefits of these lights. But more on the subject, couldn't you connect those small LED "turn illuminators" to your turn signal circuit? If you didn't mind "signalling" for every curve in the road when you ride in the dark. So why not just mount these lights facing slightly outward and leave them on all the time? Simplest solution, you'd have the extra conspicuity, and you'd never have to think about them at all. [/QUOTE]
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