Daymaker Type Headlights (Chinese Copies)

Got mine installed today, the $89 ones. Incredibly easy installation, 4 wire cuts, 4 wire crimps, slip on connectors bolt up and done, no more than 15 minutes. Lights have fantastic cutoff vertically, high beams form a bright projected spot a bit above the vertical cutoff and centered where all 4 bright lights land.

Bright as fawk, will get pictures after it gets dark. Have them setup with orange halos as running lights, the orange halos are very very visible and definitely catch your eye more than the stock lights did, meaning hopefully cagers see me more readily.

Overall I'd say 8/10 rating overall, 1 point off for not wiring all the halo wires internally and providing a small dip switch on the back to change the halo functionality instead of 3 mystery wires. Other point comes off for the lack of instructions about the halo wires.

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Can't get night pics, camera is unable to capture a good image looking at the lights even from the side. Will have to get some when its light outside.
 
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Just spotted a comparison of 12 7-inch ones including weird cheap Chinese ones, and the cheap stuff like the JW Speaker ("Daymaker") clones predictably turned out to be crap (I linked it in in the accessories section).

The Truck-lite product surprised me, amazing what you can get for $160-ish these days. But either that, the JW Speaker product or the Vision-X would be my choice, they all output tons of light. But Truck-lite doesn't have a 5.75...
 
The headlights originally posted by @ozrider were indeed Chinese and from Alibaba.
They appeared to be knock-offs of the older J W Speaker 8630s.
The headlights posted of by @Ishrub and @Claviger are NOT the same!
They are indeed Chinese and from Alibaba, but a design I've never seen before.
I be curious as to why the change and what are the reasons for the switch?

Is anyone with either of these lights coming to RAA XI in Spearfish?
 
Idaho Red Rocket 3 said:
Clav what is the link to order those ? I've been thinking about them for several months. I like the amber angel eye. How would you describe the low beam and high beam compared to stock and compared to good car lights ?
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It is all in my post#56 below - Do not forget to buy each separately for free shipping if you order 2 you will forced to pay AUD$50+ International Global shipping!
Fitting guide is my Post#66.

 
In those pics the lights are off, just the Halos turned on in the parking key position, the beams wash out the camera too much when on to get a good picture (camera sucks).

I would describe low beam as a semi-circle with a nice flat cutoff so you dont blind on-coming traffic, and the round part of the semi-circle extends down on the road nicely. It is very wide so good peripheral lighting and if aimed properly illuminates the road without being too high, like HID or Stock setups tend to be. They are very projected and don't bleed much past their intended cuttoffs, a feature I like a lot.

The High beams, the 4 circle lights top and bottom, combine to form a nice perfect circle 1/2 above and 1/2 below the plane of cutoff of the low beams, so you get get great projected light out in front of you without blinding everyone in sight. The low beam stays on with highs engaged so you still have good peripheral vision, the same as low beams add with a TON more right up the center, right where you want it.

The Halos can be used in a multitude of ways, turn signals flashing white to amber, solid white or solid amber as running lights depending how you wire them if you want. They do get warm, if you hold them in your hand with them off, but no where near the heat put out by the halogens. I rate them far above any HID kit I have seen, massively better than stock, and I have never seen JW Speakers in person on an R3, only on HDs. The JW setups I have seen on HDs I DO NOT like. The beams are so precisely focused, during the day they are very hard to see when on-coming in traffic and imo the amber halos I am using stand out during the day significantly more than stock or JW speaker setups.
 
I now have bright white halos in my turn signals, both for cool factor and greater off-angle visibility. Going to do a writeup on that one of these days when I actually have the whole bike back together... which should be soon, I need to get out there and ride.

All LED's are very well focused to light up the road and only the road, which makes them less visible than the stock lights in many cases (the stock Halogens leak light all over the place) from the side. So having some more lamps or halos for conspicuity is probably wise.

(Keep in if you ride with non-approved LED's you can find yourself fined if a cop checks them, and none of these chinese ones are DOT or E approved.)
 
I can definitely tell the difference from cagers. They seem to notice me and stop or yield when they should much quicker than previously, besides the oblivious idiots, who will always try and kill you no matter what lighting you have.

In the US the DOT legality issues are basically a non-issue, very few states even do safety inspections, and those that do tend to hand wave motorcycles through. It's nothing like British MOT certification, German TUV, or the other EU safety certs.
 
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