led light bar mounting
led light bar mounting
looking to install an led light bar on my triple tree, and i was just wondering how everyone has been mounting them and where they have been mounting the switch. any healp is greatly appreciated!!! this is the light bar that im looking into http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-x-18W-Floo...NW3l~e&vxp=mtr
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That one you linked had a bracket on it with a stud. Remove that stud and just run the nut and bolt from your headlight through that bracket. Wiring the switch is a matter of preference. You can run it directly off the input to the headlight so it's always on. You can run it off the high beam switch, or you can run it back to the battery, with an in line fuse somewhere, and then run a switch wherever you want. Personally I would pull the tank panel an run the light off the ignition switch with an in line fuse and then drill a hole in the side of the panel to install a push button on/off switch. When it's back together it will look like the odometer switch on the older set ups..
yea that'd be rad!
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Just curious if these light bars actually serve a purpose? I've seen them on a few bikes but have no idea why. Is it to be seen better during the day, or do they serve as effective running lights at night? Do they offer any side lighting?
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I mounted it to the headlight bolt, and wired it into the headlight's high beam circuit (inside the headlight shell for neatness, with an in-line fuse for just-in-case).
I only use it at night on dark Australian backroads (basically as a super-high beam/spotlight), so wiring it that way is fine for me.
"Do they offer any side lighting?"
The most common ones I've seen (a six LED unit) comes in both "spot" and "flood" varieties. The spot (mine) doesn't give much side lighting but it is lighter than the standard HD high beam. I'm guessing the floodlight variety will give more side lighting but substantially less distance down the road ahead...
I only use it at night on dark Australian backroads (basically as a super-high beam/spotlight), so wiring it that way is fine for me.
"Do they offer any side lighting?"
The most common ones I've seen (a six LED unit) comes in both "spot" and "flood" varieties. The spot (mine) doesn't give much side lighting but it is lighter than the standard HD high beam. I'm guessing the floodlight variety will give more side lighting but substantially less distance down the road ahead...
Last edited by Davdoodles; Apr 8, 2016 at 01:43 AM.
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I have mine directly wired to the highbeam circuit, no separate switch, leads attached inside the headlight bucket. Huge increase in highbeam brightness at night too. Way too bright to use at night except has a highbeam, when there aren't other vehicles around.
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