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ACinSC 
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Posted: 7 hours 26 minutes ago at 5:55am |
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Drove mine to Home Depot before daylight today
Were our headlights really so pathetic back in the day? Should say I kept them on high beam. Nobody cared and I still couldn't see very well. Eye doctor claims I'm 20/20 . Thanks
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DMiller
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Posted: 7 hours 12 minutes ago at 6:09am |
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The old 6013 and 4000 series lamps made decent light. What I found as to my issues was the onset of cataracts. Level Two is bad enough to make them appear dim when not but not bad enough to affect vision acuity for tests.
In contrast current Projector beam lamps are like looking directly at old Reel movie projector bulbs when lit up, blinding, may as well weld without a hood.
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 6 hours 15 minutes ago at 7:06am |
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Make sure you have a good ground and no corrosion on the connections. You may want to upgrade to halogen headlamps. I don’t care for the super bright lights that blind me when meeting a vehicle on the road. I need more light to see well now. Guess I need to see the eye doctor, haven’t had my eyes checked in about 18 years.
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DMiller
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Posted: 6 hours 10 minutes ago at 7:11am |
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Should add, the old lamps did degrade, lighting elements sag from time at heat, vibration and the silvering of the back housing turns gray. All known issues of a incandescent lamp. Halogen replacements will make considerable difference.
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Posted: 6 hours 5 minutes ago at 7:16am |
I think it's like most things, we were happy with what we had back them because we had nothing better to compare anything to. As for headlights, remember when the Halogen lights were the latest and brightest? Beside of todays brighter-than-the-sun LEDs they look like candles. Then if you get some numbskull that has no clue what a dimmer switch is for it is impossible to see the road. A few years before I retired, I'd just left the cement plant a few minutes prior at about 2AM, when I saw the sky lit up like a sports arena. I was meeting what was possibly a motorcycle as the lights were so bright I just might have well been looking into the sun at noon. A few minutes later I saw red and blue lights behind me. When I stopped and the officer came to the door he said I ran someone off the road. After he reviewed my dashcam. He said have a safe trip. I asked if he knew who accused me of running them off the road and he replied, yes he was going back to issue a citation for excessive glare of the motorcycle's headlights and another for more headlights than allowed.
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Posted: 5 hours 6 minutes ago at 8:15am |
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NAPA has LED replacements that will fit in their Nightvision line. A little pricey but well worth it if you drive at night. We ran another brand for a couple years at work, but found the NAPA to be a better product. With everything else on the road having brighter lights now, anything with incandescent lights just doesn't give out enough light to safely see the road.
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Posted: 3 hours 49 minutes ago at 9:32am |
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Part of the problem is the oncoming super bright lights seriously impairs your night vision, so you have trouble seeing the road in front of you.
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ACinSC
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Posted: 2 hours 18 minutes ago at 11:03am |
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Yeah guys I agree that most headlights seem too bright these days. I rarely drive the C 10 at night anymore. If I did I'd try some new lights. Do feel sorry for people driving low to the ground cars at night. Thanks
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 1 hour 52 minutes ago at 11:29am |
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One thing is if the halo around oncoming lights seems to be getting bigger or changes your night vision it's a sign of cataracts becoming part of loss of clear vision .
Seems many of the new headlights are bright but the ones that bother me are the super bright and blue tint .
On couple of my bikes I have switched to Halogen bulbs for night riding , Kind of thinking of going to LED as alternator output is limited on 60's and 70's British bikes . Have changed tale lights to LED but as need positive ground bulbs , which are hard to find .
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Posted: 55 minutes ago at 12:26pm |
 ACinSC wrote:
Drove mine to Home Depot before daylight today
Were our headlights really so pathetic back in the day? Should say I kept them on high beam. Nobody cared and I still couldn't see very well. Eye doctor claims I'm 20/20 . Thanks |
Any vehicle that old will almost certainly have a significant amount of voltage drop through the circuit. I would be surprised if there is less than a couple of volts being lost somewhere.
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