HI SuperSport Fans! Before I start rolling up my sleeves - and pretending for a moment that I even have time to do so - can anyone please advise me on an issue with the beam adjustment? I was fed up with the beam illuminating my front mudguard and not much else so I used the adjuster to bring the beam up to something approaching useful, whilst still meeting the MOT requirements. At the same time, I adjusted the beam towards the right, as previously all I could see was hedges off to my left. All fine for a couple days. However, now my dipped beam now points roughly into the area a full beam would illuminate. The full beam actually blinds airline pilots (or it would do if the headlamp were any brighter than a lit cigarette). When I adjust the beam downwards, the cone creeps down for a bit and then jumps back up to an unacceptably high direction. Have I buggered the adjuster? Or have I just run off the end of a thread on a bolt and by re-presenting the adjuster to said thread, I will again get useful adjustability? Anyone familiar with this issue and its resolution? Many thanks for your help. I am horribly short of time and appreciate anyone who can save me some
one other thing loz and not knowing the set up any chance you have disturbed the dip'd bulb? if it isnt seated properly the beam image will be all over the place
I'll be looking at this when I get some time. I haven't fiddled with the bulb, an Osram Night-Raper or whatever, since I fitted it a few months ago. The beam has always been low, for years and years, through successive bulbs - I've finally gotten around to altering the beam, and that's when the fun started. You might ask, Why did I put up with too low a beam for so long? That's easy - the brightness of the bulb is so fucking awful, so hopelessly crap, so uselessly dim that it didn't really matter which way the beam pointed, or indeed, whether I turned the fucking light on in the first place. I could have just spat chewing tobacco out of my gob, it would have illuminated better than the standard headlight. I fart better illumination than the standard headlight. I should sue Ducati under Trading Standards legislation, for misrepresenting the useless POS thing as a headlamp. Anyway. It's fifty-fifty whether a loose bulb is the issue, as things stand.
yip. it's back the how complicated do you want to make it thing. :smileys: yip lose bulb or buggered mounting. you will work it out. i have faith in ya. :smileys:
If the IE headlight is anything like the SS one, the left side of dipped beam does indeed really liven up the verge and the main beam is like a wide angle WWII searchlight.......... ...but frankly, a better headlight than my earlier bikes.
had issues with my ie headlight brightness was an issue it was crap have now wired in a extra relay circuit on low beam so as getting direct feed from the battery the voltage was down on the original wiring probably down to bad connections somewhere and bad earths so added extra earth from headlight straight to battery whoa I can see the road now with the extra brightness (well now on a par with my mates thundercat) it highlighted that the aim was well out pointing skyward now sorted and feel a lot safer
oh almost forgot previous owner (dumbass) fitted the bulb in upside down locating pins definatly not in place :Facepalm:
Well, the reason I couldn't get the beam to stay point in one place turned out to be an issue with the horizontal adjuster screw. Apparently the screw being entirely missing is not a good thing. The damned thing was there in the spring because I was using it to adjust the beam. Found a replacement from my oddments drawer, and the beam looks perfect now - at least, it looks OK on my garage door. My next night-time ride will tell for sure. Typical SuperSport, always trying to down-size, one bolt at a time.
