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Saintly
| Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 08:25 pm: |
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Ok, here's what I came up with on my first attempt at the post-toast reconstruction. I was looking at my sears craftsman hi-intensity worklamp as it was sitting on its tripod. Within minutes, I had it mounted up to the XB9R:
I ran the power cord to the rear of the bike, where I plugged it into a DC-to-AC power inverter. The inverter fit nicely under the passengers seat, and I wired it with gauge 10 cable to the battery which resides under my seat. I rolled the bike outside and fired it up:
It lit up my entire front yard and the whole side of my neighbors house, so I quickly tipped the lamp downward so as not to piss off my neighbors:
I took this picture from my neighbors yard, I think it will be horrific for oncoming traffic:
What do you guys think? Will it attract problems from law enforcement officers? Do you think that the AC inverter will over tax my charging system? It reads 13.7 V when running with the light on, I measured it with a multimeter. |
Ft_bstrd
| Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 08:32 pm: |
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I live in the south. Are you sure you aren't a redneck? Do they have those in NY? |
Buelltroll
| Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 08:56 pm: |
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Thats ASKING to get pulled over. Seems to be a DEFINETE improvement over stock lights though. |
Ft_bstrd
| Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 09:20 pm: |
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And you might want to do something about the palsy. It makes all your pictures come out blurry. |
Bueaddicted
| Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 09:40 pm: |
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LOL
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Vortec57
| Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 10:26 pm: |
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As the Guiness beer guys say... BRILLIANT! |
Tdiddy
| Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 10:35 pm: |
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You'll be fightin' the chicks off for sure if you run that HUGE hot dog cooker on your bike!!! Thats too funny!!! |
Xbob
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 12:02 am: |
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your gonna need ALOT of extension cords. |
Yohinan
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 01:23 am: |
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R I C E R I C E R I C E R I C E R I C E |
Gentleman_jon
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 08:04 am: |
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You knock me out, Fritz! I think you are on the right track in the sense that the stock Firebolt lights suck. The Lightning ones aren't much better either. However, I think your solution might benefit from further refinement if you plan on staying out of jail. Maybe two shop lights mounted vertically, one for high, one for low beams? I saw on nice skull on eBay with projectors in both eyes and the mouth: tri beam. Nasty. Hope to see you at MBIV this year. Jonathan |
Aldaytona
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 08:39 am: |
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Anyone got a set of de-chromed XBR headlight assemblies they would like to donate or sell real cheap? |
Rubberdown
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 08:41 am: |
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Love the stone guard ... or is that a hot dog grill? Those things get HOT. FB, You slay me! |
Gentleman_jon
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 09:40 am: |
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Fritz, How about this one?
It's a little different, and it has room for three lamps. you could hook one up to the unused European parking light socket, if you ever get a new wiring harness, know what I mean? Of course you'd have to make some brackets, but it shouldn't be a lot harder to mount than the Craftsman, and it has the advantage of not needing an inverter: big weight savings right there, right? (Message edited by gentleman_jon on January 07, 2007) |
Sparky
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 10:16 am: |
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Pretty impressive. But you're gonna hafta put a "spoon" in it to cut down on the oncoming glare. Better make that a 2x4. |
Mikexlr650
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 10:19 am: |
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thats freakin brilliant! don't let hammer see it, you know he'll use it! ever ride in front of rich at night, the double high beams somehow manage to magically reflect in the rear view mirrors that during the day only show elbows, works wonders with your night vision. |
Mikexlr650
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 10:22 am: |
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in ny we grow our own special breed of redneck. most of us will fit in at least part of the time. yes, enjoying this thread shows us all to be part redneck(an proud!). |
Reepicheep
| Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 04:21 pm: |
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You have a 300 watt inverter mounted somewhere on the bike? |
Medic352
| Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 02:59 am: |
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The winter's are REALLLLLLY long up there huh? |
Mikexlr650
| Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 08:57 am: |
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this is why we are all wrapped up in a trip that won't happen till the end of march. winter sucks! i will move someplace warmer, just not sure where yet. southeast, or southwest, hmmmm. |
Swordsman
| Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 09:13 am: |
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Ha! That skull is awesome! They should make the bulb in the mouth an amber one! Can you imagine that taking the place of the whole front assembly on a lightning?!?! ~SM |
Cityxslicker
| Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 02:12 pm: |
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mmmm my like the the craftsman light option, screw the dot and their idea of what lights out to be. I was thinking maybe a pair of aircraft landing lights for auxilary lighting off of a body cage. like to see more daylight profiles of that set up to see how it looks on the bike as a styling stance. Great work, day 8 of 365 days of Duct tape. |
Vaneo1
| Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 02:18 pm: |
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dear god! You mean you cant entertain yourself another way living in NY? From the looks of what your did, I was gonna guess you lived in Lizard Lick, NC or a place to its equivalent (ie. midwest, south)! |
Saintly
| Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 05:31 pm: |
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dear god! You mean you cant entertain yourself another way living in NY? Well, although the worklight idea was intended as a joke, It is not exactly a consequence of boredom. There was a motivating incident: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/406 2/249692.html?1168145389 |
Mikexlr650
| Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 08:04 pm: |
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"motivating incident" holy cr@p thats an understatement! there may have been a bit of an oversight in the development of the lighting system for the xbr(following the theme here). wonder what the candle power of fritz's fire was, bet it was higher than the oem headlight. so in a way it was custom, ya thats it! |
Bo_sox
| Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 09:02 pm: |
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Craftsman would be proud!!! |