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Offline hsas.69

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LED lights
« on: March 04, 2015, 05:31:47 PM »
I'm wanting to switch all the bulbs in the bike except headlight over to led. I know this has been discussed many times. I tried searching but only came up with a recommendation on the brake/taillight bulb from superbrightleds.com could someone using all LED's that are as bright/brighter than stock point me to the other bulbs they're running. My F3 is my daily commuter so safety is a big issue. Thanks in advance.
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Offline hsas.69

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Re: LED lights
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2015, 07:36:52 PM »
Ok did some more digging and found this list of bulbs from superbrightleds.com. But I am unable to pinpoint the last two in the list. Have not had the lenses off my turn signals so I have nothing to go off of as far as factory bulb.
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Re: LED lights
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2015, 08:40:40 AM »
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Re: LED lights
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2015, 09:25:16 AM »
Why not LED headlight?
I have installed LED H4 + parking light. No road test yet but I'm positive since the light is much brighter than earlier H4 (standard Osram). Hopefully good focus and light pattern. This will ensure charging the battery with light always on when driving.
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Re: LED lights
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2015, 05:03:55 PM »
I have the superbrightleds single 3W LED tail/stop light, I don't see the exact one in their catalog any more. It's very bright, no problem in daylight.
Their 1157-x45-T is by rating about 4x brighter. I expect that would be a bit blinding at night but very noticeable in sunlight.
I tried the alternatives available when I did it - a few yeas ago (?) - and after maybe 8 others that were dangerously feeble I was happy with what I have. The ones with many hat-shaped LEDs were really poor, maybe now those are better but I like the high power ones that look light green when off.
I'm curious about their H4 conversion lamps. They are not DOT legal... so a hardass cop looking for something to bust you for could write a ticket for it.
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Re: LED lights
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2015, 06:57:59 PM »
Didn't want to do the headlight cause I couldn't find one that was DOT approved. But then I found this....]http://www.truck-lite.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&productId=92025]
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Re: LED lights
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2015, 08:48:34 AM »
There are DOT legal replacement headlights uniits available, but still pretty dang costly. No H4 (or any other replaceable bulb type) headlight is DOT legal using anything other than a normal matching incandescent replacement bulb. No HID or LED replacement H4 (or 9006, 9007, etc) "bulb" to install in a standard headlight reflector assembly is DOT legal for public road use. And probably never will be: DOT headlight certification is for the original unit as new or with exact spec (incandescent/"halogen") replacement bulbs. So far, no LED or HID replacement bulb has met the DOT beam specs or been submitted for certification - and the way the rules are written it's likely that any non-incandescent bulb is unacceptable.
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