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Offline V-Twin

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LED bulbs
« on: October 19, 2014, 17:57:07 »
Has anyone changed any bulbs for LEDs.

I put 2 LEDs into the front side lights, looks better, but makes the H4s look dull. (501 type)
1 into the rear light but looks poor, 9 LED. So must have wrong wattage bulb. (380 type)
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Offline Gassoon

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Re: LED bulbs
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2014, 15:07:03 »
I am running led's as sidelamps as well...many people have noticed the LEDs don't last well.

My record was just a few weeks ago for the MOT. I checked the lights on the bike, noticed an LED sidelight was out and changed it...by the time I got back from the MOT the new one was shot!

Popular theory is that the heat from the headlight bulbs knacks them. Some of them are really poorly made as well.

Some Mot testers could be picky apparently, and if your sidelights are a different temperature/colour to your headlights (Eg white leds and normal 'yellowish' headlight bulbs) you can fail? that's what one said to me... :shrug:
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Re: LED bulbs
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2014, 20:18:07 »
It is true that they should fail you for that, but they are full of crap if they do.

I've had LED park lights, they failed quickly. I replaced them with better ones, expensive £8 ones, they failed like the ones before them. I went back to standard Bosch bulbs, they last ages.
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Offline mjc506

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Re: LED bulbs
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2014, 08:32:27 »
I've taken mine out, and replaced them with led strips on the handguards. Less power consumption, more visible.

Legal? fsck knows. :)
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Offline DEF2001

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Re: LED bulbs
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2014, 18:54:15 »
Put some led sidelights in this week they looked greater but 2 blown fuses later I have taken them out. Not sure what was going on but I'll have my dials and indicators working over pretty lights anytime. ###
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Offline Parademic

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Re: LED bulbs
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2014, 20:16:47 »
I've had led side lights for a couple of years...  Still working fine...  Maybe I'm just lucky...  ;-)
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Offline Ju_Strom

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Re: LED bulbs
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2015, 15:39:04 »
Hi, excuse me restarting a dormant thread, thought maybe it's better than a new one.
I bought some cheap led indicators, mini-blinker RR-style, but took them off right away as they could hardly be seen (I did change the indicator relay by the way). Finally I bought led lamps to plug into the original socket, they are working fine.
Now I'm looking to change the twin H4 bulbs in front for leds; has anyone here got any recent experiences to share?
Many Thanks in Advance
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Re: LED bulbs
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2015, 16:58:01 »
I've ordered a set H4 led lights, but they have yet to arrive. Here is the thread link...
http://www.v-strom.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=28175.0
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Re: LED bulbs
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2015, 23:39:08 »
Thank you indeed tallpaul, will check the link out.
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