L&L addendum - Homework calculations....

[Phil@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <970114172752_878914388@emout19.mail.aol.com> QSHIPQ@aol.com writes:

> SO, to summarize suggestion 1):
>    \__  -oooo-   __/
>      L               R               <  Left side UK, Right side EC

R would blind oncoming traffic.

> SO, to summarize suggestion 2):
>    __/  -oooo-   \__
>     L                  R             < Left side EC, Right side UK

L would blind oncoming traffic.

Even with stock bulbs, you wouldn't get 100 yards without being flashed.
I know - I've brought European cars to the UK and left the masking off
process until I was in England - you get flashed as you leave the dock
gates.

>From a hundred yards away, it doesn't matter to the observer which
pattern is "wrong", they're about equally bright.  Actually, the
uplift angle on the right pattern (RHD, remember) is more like 30
degrees than 45, and the left light is definitely steeper than 45 -
more like 60.  On the left, it's almost a wall of light.

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