Driving mower at night
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X-man
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Took this picture last night of my mower's lights. The light above the main headlights is a bicycle headlight that I temporarily taped on so I could see where the hell I was actually going.
The red dots in the picture is just reflection. Took the pic with my phone.
The red dots in the picture is just reflection. Took the pic with my phone.
ILENGINE
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I guess the question is, how much light do you expect to get out of two 25 watt bulbs, that spreads the light over a large area, instead of being directed into a beam. Headlights on riders are designed as a selling point, not something for actually use.
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Thats what I hate. If their going to take the time to install headlights on it, why the hell won't they make them decent?
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yes I have but I try not to if I don't have to ...Most of them when I ride them at night is because I am testing them before I drop them off to a client ...Had a zero turn last night boy was that dark lol no lights at all so it turned on the head lights on my truck to see lol
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Yeah same here, I hate driving it at night. What makes it worse is that I have night blindness, hence the reason why I taped a bicycle headlight to the hood.
If I had the time and money, I would love to rig the lights with legit high/low beams so I wouldn't have a problem driving it at night.
X-man
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It's time for some projector headlights and an HID kit.
I have HID on my pickup. Other drivers hate them, but I love them.
<img src="http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=18247"/>
Those are some nice lights.
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Thanks! The kit only costed something like 70$ and was easy to install.
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I have never mowed in the night time. I have used my garden tractor at night to blow snow which it could of been better. Also I have ran motorcycles, ATV's and snowmobiles at night time. They all have the high/low head lights and all have good lighting. Maybe you could rig something from one of them. One of the things to having good lighting at night time is head light aliment so you might try that on your lawn mower first.