The Denali D7 Professional Multi-Beam driving mild pods with the Modular X-Lens System are the most recent and brightest addition to the Denali Electronics LED lineup. The brand new D7 Professional equipment ($798) claims to blast almost 24,000 lumens of daylight in entrance of you. That translated to the D7 Professional’s illuminating objects 1000 toes in entrance of the Final Motorcycling Yamaha Ténéré 700 Undertaking Bike.
Having the ability to see-to-stop is a important security challenge, whether or not on a twisty street or within the darkness of a abandoned freeway on a moonless night time. At full depth, the Denali D7 Professional LED pods draw a hefty 98 watts and eight amps every. Every IP68- and 69K-rated waterproof pod measures 4.4 inches and is 2.9 inches deep.
There are seven 14-watt Cree XML3 LEDs in every pod. They’re organized as two on high, two on backside, and three throughout the middle. The middle array acts as floodlights, and the highest and backside pairs spot beams for distance. The spots and floods will be run concurrently, or managed individually relying in your using situations. Three snap-on flood lenses are equipped with every pod—white, amber, and yellow.
You may wire all seven LEDs to come back on full blast with a single change utilizing the equipped 2-into-1 pigtail, or you may separate the space spots and flood into two switches. I selected to make use of the Denali DialDim Lighting Controller. It controls each mild configurations and permits 0-100% dimming of every configuration independently. The DialDim ($249) will be bought as a common match or bike-specific equipment. I selected the common equipment as I’d need to transfer these amazingly vivid lights to the following Final Motorcycling Undertaking Bike.
The Ténéré 700 DialDim Controller equipment ($288 MSRP) comes with a bike-specific wiring harness that simply connects your blinkers, horn, and headlight to the D7 Professional LEDs and the DialDim controller. The common DialDim equipment has a pigtail to perform the identical factor, although you need to discover the proper wires and connect with them utilizing the equipped pin faucets. With the bike-specific equipment (or the common pigtail appropriately linked), once you flip in your blinkers, the spot beam on that facet will shut off, and the flood (with the snap on amber or yellow tint) will blink alongside together with your OEM blinker. In case you hit your horn, all LEDs will flash. While you hit your Excessive Beam change, the DialDim will activate the D7s to the depth you beforehand set.
Even when you do not need to allow the blinkers, excessive beam, or horn capabilities of the common pigtail, you continue to want to attach the white Ignition wire from that pigtail to a key-switched connection. In case you don’t, the DialDim controller is not going to come alive—there went an hour of troubleshooting earlier than my aha second.
The D7 Professional lights require a sturdy mounting bracket that may be bought from Denali or a 3rd occasion. Denali’s Ténéré 700-specific mounting bracket ($88) gained’t work for my Ténéré as a result of I’ve upper-mounted crash bars taking on the mounting holes. The Driving Mild Mount ($84) was out of inventory once I ordered the D7 Professional lights, so I went with a third-party crash-bar mount that ought to maintain the 1.8-pound pods in place. The entire tough roads the place I’m are lined with snow proper now, so I gained’t know if I must improve my mounts for some time.
Clicking all of the wires collectively by the DialDim was the fast a part of the set up. The routing of the wires from the battery space below the seat, as much as the entrance for the lights, and the DialDim Controller change mounted on the handlebars, took me a night to perform. I needed to pull the facet panels and carry the tank. I mounted the DialDim change as near the left grip as doable, subsequent to the left mirror stalk.
From expertise, I do know it’s important to have the ability to dim extraordinarily vivid lights shortly to keep away from blinding oncoming site visitors. When correctly adjusted to 2 inches under the middle of the mounting peak at 25 toes, the middle of the beam gained’t be in an oncoming driver’s eyes. Nonetheless, they’ll nonetheless get a complete bunch of your D7 mild blasted at them, even from 1000 toes away.
In case you use a easy all-on/all-off handlebar change, your decisions are easy; the DialDim Controller offers many extra choices. The push/dial button is massive, vertically raised, and winter glove-friendly. It’s straightforward to get a thumb on it to push or rotate. There are various push and rotate-to-control choices accessible.
I’ve the four-spot spot beams on the blue circuit and the center three flood beams on the inexperienced circuit. Every is managed individually. The DialDim controller remembers the settings you dialed in earlier than shutting off energy. In the event that they have been off once you shut down, they are going to be off once you begin up. The DialDim goes by its personal self-check sequence, exhibiting inexperienced when you have good battery energy, and purple when you don’t. The inexperienced halo across the dial will disappear; with no LEDs on, the change is darkish.
Double tapping the button activates the blue circuit first, and a blue halo seems with a round indication of the brightness degree set earlier than it was turned off. A second double faucet activates the inexperienced circuit, and the halo signifies the % of brightness. Press-and-hold turns off both circuit when it’s chosen.
In case you have each circuits on excessive utilizing the DialDim and you’ve got oncoming site visitors that you simply need to dim or shut off for, you have got plenty of time-consuming thumb actions to perform in a really brief window. After using with these amazingly vivid lights for some time, I favor to have solely the spot beams on when distance lighting is required. Then, when there’s oncoming site visitors, I can merely roll the thumbwheel button counterclockwise to dim down and roll it again clockwise to brighten up. That is a lot sooner than press-and-hold to show it off after which double-click to show it again on. In twisty areas or city settings, I solely use the inexperienced circuit (floods) and roll them on or off as wanted.
If I have been utilizing the 2-into-1 pigtail off the D7 Professional pods, the spots and floods can be on the identical circuit, and I’d management the utmost depth of all seven LEDs with only one circuit. The way you set them up is dependent upon the way you need to use the accessible flexibility. Do you favor amber daytime working lights with out the spots on, or seven LEDs on in the course of the day and dialed all the way down to 10 % for oncoming visibility? The DialDim Controller offers you a lot choices.
For my pictures, I lined the Ténéré’s low beam with paper so I’d solely seize the projected mild from the Denali D7 Professional pods. On a straight, unlit road with mild site visitors, I measured 1000 toes from my bike to the cease signal. Though my iPhone 14 couldn’t report it, I may learn the cease signal clearly with the spot beam on excessive depth. I may additionally clearly see the phone pole 900 toes away and on the opposite facet of the road.
My iPhone gave me light-intensity suggestions by how shortly it snapped the shutter. The extra mild it was seeing, the sooner the shutter clicked. With each circuits on full depth, the shutter length felt the identical as in daylight. There is no such thing as a option to present with a photograph the nervousness discount that comes with with the ability to see as far forward and as extensive because the D7 Professional’s mild up.
The brand new Denali D7 Professional Multi-Beam Driving Mild Pods are extraordinarily vivid. They may mild up the street over 1000 toes forward with the 4 spots on excessive depth and offer you over 200 toes of horizontal visibility utilizing the middle LEDs concurrently. At 60 mph, that’s seeing a minimum of 10 seconds forward, which is nearly the identical as daytime look-ahead. In case you aren’t somebody who rides at night time, then having massive, high-intensity floods in amber or orange is perhaps simply what you want to be seen at simply the suitable second, similar to when approaching an intersection. Both means, the Denali D7 Professional Multi-Beam Driving Mild Pods are an enormous step up in lighting from the inventory Ténéré 700 headlight.
