Kilo-Lumen bike headlight

Step 9 Fire it up!

After finishing my headlight I wanted to see just how bright it was. The following pictures show the headlight (center) and the high beams of an Audi TT (with HID headlights). Essentially the Kilo-Lumen headlight is as bright as the car's highbeam, maybe a little brighter, and certainly with a higher color temperature (the high beams on the car are halogens).

Comments

[cboy2us]

HID's and halogens are two different types of headlights, the ones in the picture are halogens, HID's would essentally blind the camera from this view point.

[kc6qhp]

The 1st generation Audi TT has HIDs for the regular headlights, the highbeams are halogens. This is a common configuration in cars that were early to the HID scene. I don't recall whether this picture was taken with the high beams or the HIDs, but I attempted to take it at the worst possible angle/configuration. I'll see if I can find a picture that was worse, but I really tried to go for the worst case.

[kc6qhp]

Okay so I posted a video of the test setup. Both the HID and Halogen lights are on when the high beams are activated. So there you go :) The video should open with Quicktime (I hope).

[LED master22]

dude your very good a this elecctrical stuff... 10/5*