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Intelligent Lights for the Intelligent RiderTM


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Photon Blaster

Finally, there's an affordable, easy to install, very effective front safety light for your motorcycle.

The Photon Blaster is an extremely bright, highly conspicuous, yellow lighting system designed to mount on the front forks of your motorcycle. Its brightness, color and unique flicker dramatically increase your motorcycle's visibility to approaching traffic.

Many motorists find motorcycles hard to see. Not only are they much smaller than cars but their single headlight often gets lost in the background. Drivers are subconsciously looking out for other cars, and even if they see a motorcycle, it often doesn't really register and gets ignored. It is also hard for many drivers to judge the closing speed and distance of a motorcycle as they see only a single reference point of light.

The Photon Blaster is specifically designed to counter these factors and to maximize the visibility of your motorcycle. The Photon Blaster adds two high-intensity yellow LED light bars on either side of your front wheel. The brilliant yellow color helps your motorcycle stand out and the extra, distinct lights arranged in a triangular pattern with the headlight help oncoming drivers judge how far away you are and how fast you're approaching.

A unique and extremely effective feature of the Photon Blaster is that the LEDs flicker. The flicker rate has been chosen such that it maximizes your motorcycle's visibility, without being distracting. Utilizing a high-speed microprocessor and fast-acting, high-intensity LEDs, the Photon Blaster takes advantage of the difference in persistence of vision between the human eye's central field of view and its peripheral view. When viewed directly, the Photon Blaster LEDs appear not to flicker, yet when seen out of the corner of the eye, they have a just-noticeable flicker, significantly enhancing your motorcycle's conspicuity.

Unlike high power halogen lamps, the highly efficient Photon Blaster's LEDs consumes only 2.5 watts, less than 1/20th of what other auxiliary lights draw. The low current draw of the design requires no relay, and because the lights come on with the ignition, no power switch is needed.



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