Replacing bulbs with LEDs
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You can likely get LED 'bulbs' for the tank console here:
https://www.superbrightleds.com/vehi...at-light-bulbs
They've been in the LED bulb game for a long time.
Their website and product offerings have gotten more complex since my last visit though.
https://www.superbrightleds.com/vehi...at-light-bulbs
They've been in the LED bulb game for a long time.
Their website and product offerings have gotten more complex since my last visit though.
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I replace every-single-bulb possible in all my bikes with LED bulbs. Always. They're better to see in the daylight, and an important thing many people forget about, is that they use very little power. Your bike will love you for it. For example...I took my '98 Super Glide on a group ride with a buddy and a bunch of his friends. That morning the bike fired up just fine and it had been for a few years before then.
Our first stop, we are at a restaurant to eat breakfast. When we come out we all hop on our sleds and whadayaknow...my bike won't do anything but 'click'. Dead friggin' battery! But!...this is an evo era bike, I have a carb on it and not that EFI computer driven crap. I have a couple of them give me a push start and I bump the clutch (in third gear) and voila! it fires up. It ran fine until the next stop, but again all it took was a push start. The second time, I took the headlight bulb out, just to keep the system from draining any more. Now all it was doing was keeping about 20 watts total lit. Compare that to the stock lightbulb setup where the headlight bulb uses 55/65 watts alone, the turn signal bulbs are 20 watts each making 80 watts, and the stoplight bulb was another 20 watts...a total of at least 155 watts.
I was able to ride with the group all day so long as they were willing to give me a push start. So now, whenever I get a new bike, I transfer all the LED bulbs from the old one to the new one, like my '98 and I got T-boned two years ago, totaled the bike, I took all the LED's (that includes the dash bulbs) and put them in the '97 Heritage Classic. I can ride all day with a dead/near dead battery so long as I can get a push start. I put all LED's in a '09 Super Glide I had, including an H4 LED headlight bulb that used only 25 or 30 watts on high beam, if I remember right, and it liked that, but that bike did nothing but give me trouble, especially electrical, the whole 87,000+ miles I got out of it before the motor took a dump and I sold it, but not before taking all the LED bulbs out of it!
Our first stop, we are at a restaurant to eat breakfast. When we come out we all hop on our sleds and whadayaknow...my bike won't do anything but 'click'. Dead friggin' battery! But!...this is an evo era bike, I have a carb on it and not that EFI computer driven crap. I have a couple of them give me a push start and I bump the clutch (in third gear) and voila! it fires up. It ran fine until the next stop, but again all it took was a push start. The second time, I took the headlight bulb out, just to keep the system from draining any more. Now all it was doing was keeping about 20 watts total lit. Compare that to the stock lightbulb setup where the headlight bulb uses 55/65 watts alone, the turn signal bulbs are 20 watts each making 80 watts, and the stoplight bulb was another 20 watts...a total of at least 155 watts.
I was able to ride with the group all day so long as they were willing to give me a push start. So now, whenever I get a new bike, I transfer all the LED bulbs from the old one to the new one, like my '98 and I got T-boned two years ago, totaled the bike, I took all the LED's (that includes the dash bulbs) and put them in the '97 Heritage Classic. I can ride all day with a dead/near dead battery so long as I can get a push start. I put all LED's in a '09 Super Glide I had, including an H4 LED headlight bulb that used only 25 or 30 watts on high beam, if I remember right, and it liked that, but that bike did nothing but give me trouble, especially electrical, the whole 87,000+ miles I got out of it before the motor took a dump and I sold it, but not before taking all the LED bulbs out of it!
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