poor lighting on a trident

Wel had my first ride home in the dark in a long time and I must admit I wasn't impressed with the trident 900 headlighting, what is it two candle power?Anyone any ideas how to improve it?

[Hinckley]

As bulbs get older they lose much of their effectivness prior to burning out. They kind of degrade over thier lifetime.

I would suggest starting out by simply replacing your bulb with a good halogen bulb.

[GeoffE]

Hi,

See this, and the link to an older post: Old Post

Good luck
Geoff
:wink:

[Nic900]

You're dead right Wanny, the Trident headlight was p**s poor. I worked in a car parts shop at the time I found this out about mine. To cure it I used a "super" bulb made by Osram, this uses a different gas in the bulb which will give you better light without increasing the wattage. You need to avoid increasing the wattage because this will increase the heat given off by the bulb, this in turn will burn the reflector making it go a milky colour which will reduce the light emitted by the headlight. The other thing I did was replace the reflector/lens assembly it's self. I replaced it with a generic 7 3/4 inch headlight unit from a car. This unit had a different beam pattern, concentrating the light rather than dispersing it which is what the original Hella unit seemed to do. Both these modes resulted in and excellent headlamp.
Hope this helps

[ This message was edited by: Nic900 on 2005-08-29 22:10 ]