Clay, (and everybody else) if your headlight isn't working well for you, the first thing to do is check the aim point. When I got my bike, I cussed the headlight. On my old Connies, which used an H4, I had long since switched to the 100/130 W bulb (which required a Honda automobile (Civic, IIRC) socket to keep from melting and also worked much better with a relay getting power from heavier duty wiring) the headlight had been pretty darned good. When I got the NT, its headlight was a big step backward. I quickly put on Denalis and they helped a lot.
Ft Morgan was a town without streetlights -- the city paid the electricity for every front-porch light in town (limited to 40W), but on my street most people didn't leave their porch lights on. One night I realized that my headlight was essentially pointing at the ground. I re-aimed it and before too long realized that I was getting flashed by trucks, but not by cars when I had my Denalis on. That's when I noticed on a dark night that my high beams were illuminating trees on my block. I then used my garage door and learned the low-beam was pointing about where the high-beam should have been. I re-aimed the light by measuring the height of the low-beam bulb above the ground and then measured the height of the low-beam cut-off and put it at the same height as the bulb. Since then, I almost never get flashed when I've got the low-beam and the Denalis (mounted on the fender and aimed straight ahead), plus my high-beam throws light a long way down the road. The NT's headlight, aimed right, is way better then my pumped up Concours headlight was.