Looking for good advice on replacing headlght with dual headlight

[Gorminrider]

I never saw any advantage to having a motorcycle up close look like a car far away.

They don't look like "a car far away" judging from the ones with these lights that I see. But maybe I'm too used to noticing motorcycles.

[Gorminrider]

Increasing the power to be shunted away

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using only two of the stator windings...

...however per "shunt" you wouldn't need a microwave and a heated jacket... a piece of nichrome wire cut to an experimental length or a cigarette lighter etc etc as a heater hanging in the breeze to cool would "use it up". But it's Ugly .
Ideally any generator should provide just the power required and no more...and why (apart from the slip-rings), the car-type regulated-field alternator would have seemed to have been better in the first place (to me)...but then there maybe there are troubles with "saturation" and rpm....(ie: does my car actually speed up its idle to maintain the set voltage?

Indeed, the ol' Suzuki "Dropping a leg at the lightswitch" is another approach I was thinking ... a better variation on this might be to keep the leg but regulate just it alone. Unless you want to watch a voltmeter and run the switch yourself ... that is, the regulation circuit is placed only on one loop . (I think I saw this on one of Trevor's bikes pictures posted when he bought it ....)

Maybe "Coils" are another "hot" one that will go soon...Yet, assuming the bike's demands get smaller, heated vests won't disappear so the bike will be expected to provide increasingly-varied power demands.

[tkent02]

Ok, maybe using only two of the stator windings...

Exactly what Suzuki did when you turn the headlight off.

[roeme]

I agree with tkent, IMO the GS look **** with a dual setup. But to each his own.

There are other solutions I incline to but the different regulator seems to be the consensus here.

Consensus? It's the only solution I can imagine that makes sense under these circumstances. The electrical system was designed to shunt away a certain amount of power (and, as we know from experience, even then was pushing it). Increasing the power to be shunted away...what else would one do than to install a modern R/R? Add a radio, heated grips and a microwave to bring power consumption back up?

Ok, maybe using only two of the stator windings...

[tkent02]

I never saw any advantage to having a motorcycle up close look like a car far away.

[Gorminrider]

You can have led headlights. But the present forum consensus is that if your new leds draw a lot less power than the original incandescents, you should replace the old Shunt-type regulator with a Series type. The immediate symptom of trouble would be that your regulator feels very hot after you run awhile with your new led lamps .

There are other solutions I incline to but the different regulator seems to be the consensus here.

[2Stroke]

I have heard not to go to LED to protect the stator but wanted to find out if anyone has been happy with going to a duel setup that I can mount to the forks directly.

I also need it be bright.


Thanks,

2Stroke