Clearwater Sevina and Erica - Naomi

dcarver · Jul 13, 2017

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Thinking of running a pair of Sevina's on the Canyon Cages but.

DeltasNot sure how how far out they would extend
Not sure if backlight, scatter, would get back into the cockpit
A tip over becomes more expensive
Current draw Sevias = 10 amps, Ericas = 8.6 amps at 14 vdc. That's alot of current draw. 130 Watts.
Add another 90 watts of heated jacket
Add another 45 watts of heated glove
Misc stuff - running, turn signals, brakes = what, another 5 watts?
Headlights = 120 watts
Total consumed watts = 130 + 90 + 45 + 5 + 120 = 390 watts
OEM total watts = 590
OEM 590 - used 390 = 200 watts spare
... is 200 watts enough margin?

[*]PROS
[*]Sevina's have better throw down the road, produce 7,500 lumen compared to 6,000 ofor Erica's.
[*]Sevina current draw for 1,500 extra lumens is only 1.4 additional amps
The Sevinas attach to the tob tube of the Canyon Cage.

Sevinas' are 4.7 inches in diameter meaning with bracket they will stick out about, what, 6 inches?

What do you think?

RossKean · Jul 13, 2017

Keep in mind that the majority of the time you will be running the auxiliary lights at 50% or less. Also, your jacket and gloves may draw 135 watts at 100% on but they are not likely to be on more than 25% or so unless it is really cold. The only time you will have an issue is full lights at night in winter...

You can save another 50 or more watts by changing your headlights to LED. There was a fairly recent thread that identified some reasonably priced candidates.

Personally, I don't like the look of big honkin' lights hanging off a bike like the FJR - maybe on a KLR or something... The smaller diameter reflectors still throw good light.

flars · Jul 13, 2017

They're too darn big, as in 'them things sure are ugly'.

A bunch of riders in the Iron Butt Rally had a mixture of Clearwaters. Some ran four lights (two big 'uns and two littler ones), some just two. Some ran them on the fairing, some on the canyon cages.

I don't think you are going to have any trouble with them sucking too much power. All you have to do is ignore how ugly they are, and be strong when people tell you that you must be trying to compensate for some personal shortcoming.

Dutch · Jul 13, 2017

Back in WW2 there was a saying about airplanes - "If it works it's beautiful".

escapefjrtist · Jul 13, 2017

Think you'd get better lighting performance mounted higher on the bike DC. But I gotta agree with above...too big for mounting on the cages or anywhere else.

FWIW!

--G