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Re: [ST] new product lighting; Philips MotoVision and extraDuty



I think you are right Kevin. From a friend of mine that works for GE and used to work for Phillips, in their lighting divisions:

    It's only for the French market, the French require all headlamps to be yellow, Philips may just be changing the coating slightly for marketing reasons.

   
  -John
  
Kevin Byram <blubyu352@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Sound like a good development, but unfortunately, I believe many US states may not allow the orange color for a headlamp.

Markus Clarijs wrote: Philips is coming with new headlights for motorcycles soon.

Motovision is a new system of high performance lights with 40% more, white light, reaching 10 to 20m further than ordinary lights. 
They do have an orange reflection.
Because it's Dutch ? 
No because orange has a better illumination then yellow. 
Why add any colour? 
Because 89,6% of the accidents with motorcycles involved are at the front side and due to the "other roaduser" not seeing the motorcycle. Orange has the effect of a warninglight...


Extraduty is designed for gravity forces up to 20G (a fighterjet can handle upt to 9G). Research learns that 35% of the headlights used in motorcycles gets defect before the end of the normal lifecycle due to heavy fibrations.

Both come in H4 and H7.

Info from: local newspaper in Holland dated February 18, 2006

Couldn't find any info on the site of Philips lighting. 
There is some info in French though:
http://www.moto-net.com/p_article.php?RefArticle=1048

Seems to be interesting to me, I will keep you informed.

Cheers!

--Markus


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