LED Headlight installed

sailorcolin · Post by **sailorcolin** » 06:48 am Sep 10 2013

I recently installed an LED headlight on my 94. I know what some of you electricians are thinking, LED is DC and won't work on AC. Well you are a right, however it works great! It does flash sometime at lower RPMs like at a stop light but i plan on doing a DC conversion later this month. It is much brighter than stock and was super cheap. Here is a link to the eBay site where I bought 2 for $36 shipped with 2 day shipping from Cali. http://www.ebay.com/itm/231045594547?ss ... 1497.l2649. I am selling my other one to my brother with a CRF 230L for his headlight for $30

. Below are some photos of the install and yes i do plan on cutting the mounting bolt so it is not so prominent :)

jwhking1315 · Post by **jwhking1315** » 07:50 am Sep 10 2013

How does it do at night? Got any night time pics?

sailorcolin · Post by **sailorcolin** » 08:46 am Sep 10 2013

I will be posing a night picture today, It is great and a great improvement over halogen

jwhking1315 · Post by **jwhking1315** » 10:01 am Sep 10 2013

Thanks for posting this stuff. I've been thinking about swapping mine to LED instead of winding the stator

sailorcolin · Post by **sailorcolin** » 07:25 pm Sep 10 2013

Night shot

Gotanubike · Post by **Gotanubike** » 07:51 pm Sep 10 2013

Looks good. Nice e36 you got there too

sailorcolin · Post by **sailorcolin** » 07:59 pm Sep 10 2013

thanks @gotanubike. she was a good fixer up er

rbates9 · Post by **rbates9** » 08:10 pm Sep 10 2013

What kind of RPMs was the bike at for the night picture?

elusive · Post by **elusive** » 09:53 pm Sep 10 2013

Roadhazardguy · Post by **Roadhazardguy** » 10:11 am Sep 11 2013

Pretty cool! I've wondered if an led like that would work on AC.

pumpguy · Post by **pumpguy** » 03:06 pm Sep 11 2013

Thanks for this post. Looks really interesting.

Only problem I see is the lack of high and low beam, if needed. I suppose it would be easy enough to mount 2 of them, one aimed low and the other high, and use a dimmer switch to flip from one to the other.

Roadhazardguy · Post by **Roadhazardguy** » 04:12 pm Sep 11 2013

If you're handy with electronics like that I'm sure you could open it up and separate 3 of the leds from the other 3 so you have hi and lo. You'll probably have to swap out the resistors for ones with different values and add another one and a diode for the other series.

diymirage · Post by **diymirage** » 04:25 pm Sep 11 2013

my hi and low beam are integrated in the throttle
turn it down for low beam crack it open for high

sailorcolin · Post by **sailorcolin** » 04:42 pm Sep 11 2013

rbates9 wrote:What kind of RPMs was the bike at for the night picture?

that was idle :)

pumpguy · Post by **pumpguy** » 06:17 pm Sep 11 2013

I'm talking about high and low beams to satisfy law enforcement requirements. My KDX is plated. I would think using just 3 of the 6 LEDs would cut the light output in half @ the low setting, and would not change where the high and low beams are aimed.

Roadhazardguy · Post by **Roadhazardguy** » 07:07 pm Sep 11 2013

They just need to see a switch in brightness for inspection purposes but while driving around on the road you could just leave all 6 on all the time unless someone flashes you.

Does Illinois check the aim of your lights during inspection? Texas did a long time ago but not anymore.

Post by **fuzzy** » 09:49 am Sep 12 2013

It works because the power is DC

Lighting coil is AC, goes through a regulator/RECTIFIER converting to DC.

Roadhazardguy · Post by **Roadhazardguy** » 10:20 am Sep 12 2013

Since when did these bikes start getting rectifiers Fuzzy?

flyboy · Post by **flyboy** » 05:32 pm Sep 12 2013

Great job on this . If you do convert your bike to dc would you mind doing a write up on it?
Cheers

pumpguy · Post by **pumpguy** » 06:38 pm Sep 12 2013

Actually not really sure. I was prepared to undergo a DOT inspection, but when I finally got all the paperwork straightened out, I lucked out with a road legal title. Still, If I were going to do any night riding, I would want good high and low beam capability.

KDXRIDER.NET

KDXRIDER.NET