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The Great LED Experiment, Part 2
Written by CalvinFold on 9/29/2004 at 05:22 am

Well, as I figured, the night LED shots didn't work well, since the auto mode
makes every light look bright.

But the daytime shots of the STOCK lights came out perfect:

<http://tinyurl.com/5w73t>

This gives you some idea how invisible the stock Uni-Go bulbs are, as well as
a glimpse of the lack of visible lighting on the PC800 (and I have upgraded
my bulbs to brighter ones!). In other words, even the brake lights during the
day only work because of contrast, and not that much contrast even then.

I never realized how bad it was until I followed other PCers around during the
day and other crummy lighting conditions. Scary.

(BTW: Headlight is just as bad, but frankly outside of sheer wattage or some
kind of HID retrofit, I don't know how to solve that problem.)

Hence my efforts to improve the situation. We'll see if I accomplished anything
with the LEDs during the day.

Kevin
San Leandro, CA
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1996 Honda Pacific Coast 800 ("Red Dwarf")
45,000+ miles || HRCA #HM729375
<http://www.quosig.com/pc800/>
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2002 Uni-Go Trailer ("Starbug 1") || Trailer #499
<http://www.quosig.com/quosig/pc800/uni-go>
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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 || 10:18 PM PST