Have You Ever Sought Technical Advice From Triumph?

I am thinking about fitting a couple of front facing lamps, fog or spot, mainly to improve my daytime visibility to other road users. Having trawled the market I discovered that input power to these devices could be anywhere up to 120 Watts.

Not wishing to draw more juice than the electrical system could cope with without drawing on the battery I asked Triumph tech advice team how much surplus electricity was generated when the bike was running daytime and nighttime. The response advised the alternator output at 5k rpm. Not entirely helpful.

So I then asked how much juice does the bike need to run in daylight and nighttime conditions and how much the heated grips needed. The response received was

“We're unable to provide further design specification info in this regard. Simply the Factory do not disclose this information for us to pass on.

As previously noted, we cannot recommend the fitment of any non-genuine or modified part to any of our motorcycles.”

Unbelievable.

 

It was the LED units that I was looking at. Whilst 120 Watts seems excessive it was on a unit that allowed dip and main beam to both be activated. Such as this.

 

I have replaced the H4 halogen bulb in my Ducati with a similar unit but because the light source is not as concentrated as in the H4 unit or even in the right place I find that for daytime riding the result is great with a very white light output that is more noticeable than the “warmer” halogen unit. However, when riding at night there is virtually no difference between main and dipped beam. This could be exacerbated by the fact that my head lamp shape is not the traditional circular unit as you can see.



I have yet to try the OE LED lamps on my Street Triple at night.

 

As you can see I don’t have that option as the headlamp lens and shell (reflector) is one piece and not round.