H4 globe; which way is up?

SHIT: I hope the glue hasn't set...

 

You'll have to pull Shellie's rubber bra off to work out which way
up she really goes ... anyway, that one looks like it's got two H1 or H3
bulbs, or whatever they're called.

-----sharks

 

....and she's got one high beam and one low.

 

big pair of headlights though

They are H4 Globes, and by the looks of it, they are facing different
directions each.

Like i said, does it matter one bit, the power still flows upside down

MAD and Annoyed

 

It only matters when some mad and annoyed copper gives you mo fo tickets for
having lights that are brighter on low beam!

 

Uh ... I can't help looking at that wiring harness and noticing that
each of them has _two_ wires running to it, not _three_. And that it's
the fairing off your CBR600F4i, which has a low on one side and a high
on the other and takes two H7 bulbs.

I mean, unless you've, you know, used lots fo hot-melt glue to get them
H4s in already.

-----sharks

 

Doesn't matter, just turn the bike the other way if it doesn;t fit.

 

[penny drops]

Hey Nathan; H4 doesn't just mean "Halogen".

The H4 is the dual-filament high/low general-purpose halogen bulb.
http://db.hella.com.au/cgi-bin/catalogue.pl?flcmd=preview&flmaint=37
It actually has a little reflector in it and points the low-beam light off
at an angle and thus has to be put in the right way around or it'll dip
"up" instead of down.

From the mid 90s the single-filament H1, H3, H7 etc bulbs became more
common as separate, directional high and low-beam headlights (or partitions
within headlights) became the norm.
http://db.hella.com.au/cgi-bin/catalogue.pl?flcmd=preview&flmaint=2017
http://db.hella.com.au/cgi-bin/catalogue.pl?flcmd=preview&flmaint=29
http://db.hella.com.au/cgi-bin/catalogue.pl?flcmd=preview&flmaint=46

Your fairing looks like it has the separate type of headlights (for which
the up/down of the bulb wouldn't matter)

Cheers ..... Clem

 

um.... i thought they were h4's i installed..

well either way, they are in their, 1s low beam, both for high beam.

 

Try jumping. 'Up' is the first one. It's the same for everything.