barbagris
Mad Scientist
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- 1979 Guzzi V1000G5 - 2018 KTM 790 Duke
The LED drivers incorporated feeds less or more current. But I find that often, driving LEDs with a lower current does not diminish their visibility so much as how hot they get. And then as you keep dropping, suddenly they simply glimmer. mfrs cant afford to adjust each one - so they give themselves a decent low end margin to avoid glimmer.How do you get the brake and tail to illuminate at different intensities though?
There are solutions where there is an array and more LED emitters are used on BRAKE than just TAIL. But I have yet to see a replacement bulb that has this. Let alone a red one. This imo is the real way to go.
Also I believe that lights designed to WARN (brake and indicators) need to be physically segregated from position markers. This is NOT easy to do on a bike. I have positional markers in my top case and brake lights in the indicator housing. But it's not ideal and I may get a set of Kellerman Attos for additional brake. So in something like Steve's case I would use maybe the HYPERLITES only in braking mode. And I'd FLASH them.