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Farkles, Gear & Accessories => Lights and Lighting => Topic started by: Icor on November 02, 2013, 06:02:04 PM
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These are by no means cheap. But was wanting some feed back. I commute to work on my beloved st on a road that has a lot of fauna.
http://www.twistedthrottle.com/Denali
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Our US counter parts on ST-Owners speak very highly of them.......
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As well as those, check out these http://www.clearwaterlights.com/products2_pp.html (http://www.clearwaterlights.com/products2_pp.html) the price does match the specification though.
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the top of the range Denali appears to give around 200 meters with the beam still being effective. At approximately 100kph I think that is around 5 seconds reaction time (I am sure someone will chime in if the approximations are out). With some bigger lumen LED lights you may be able to extend the distance out a bit further. From memory the Clearwater ones have a usable distance of around 300 meters, punching the distance out a bit further with HID should add a few more seconds (possibly 8 or 9) onto reaction time.
May I suggest that you may still need to slow down at night to compensate for the loss of vision.
Any extra light that you can put out front is a bonus, the Denali is a good brand as are a number of other LED lights out there, remember that you get what you pay for.
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the top of the range Denali appears to give around 200 meters with the beam still being effective. At approximately 100kph I think that is around 5 seconds reaction time (I am sure someone will chime in if the approximations are out).
Pretty close TJ. When we do calculations at work 100kph = 27.7m/s. and we use an average reaction time of 1.5 secs. So effectively you are left with around 6 secs reaction left after identification of the threat.
200m / 27.7m/s = 7.22 sec.
7.22s - 1.5s = 5.7 sec. (Approx 6 seconds)
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Thanks Steve, forgot you guys do that stuff too :beer
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It supposedly takes 180mts to pull up a fully laden B-double from 100kph, I think an ST could do a bit better than that.
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It supposedly takes 180mts to pull up a fully laden B-double from 100kph, I think an ST could do a bit better than that.
Only try this action if you are behinf the truck, not in front of it....
:eek :eek :grin :grin :grin
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Just make sure that you are more than 1.5 seconds behind the truck! :||||