LED Gauge lights
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LED Gauge lights
I have tried to change my gauge lights, to blue from the stock ones,
I changed to the blue 194 bulb, but the light was so weak you couldn't see the color unless it was total darkness.
I am looking at purchasing superbright LED 194 in Blue, has anybody else done this?
or should I just save my money.
Oh by the way, I have the old style black background on my gauges.
As usual all comments are welcome.
I've since sent my lights to have a LED light placed into the TACH and SPEEDO, works great!
the other's were easy, went to supergrightled to get the right bulb.
Cost $150 including installation into the fairing.
I changed to the blue 194 bulb, but the light was so weak you couldn't see the color unless it was total darkness.
I am looking at purchasing superbright LED 194 in Blue, has anybody else done this?
or should I just save my money.
Oh by the way, I have the old style black background on my gauges.
As usual all comments are welcome.
I've since sent my lights to have a LED light placed into the TACH and SPEEDO, works great!
the other's were easy, went to supergrightled to get the right bulb.
Cost $150 including installation into the fairing.
Last edited by davidw221; Apr 6, 2013 at 07:34 PM.
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If you go to superbrightled's website, you'll find the following specs:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...2FcompWLED.htm
Looks like the WLED-x5 (three versions of white) provide from 10-12 lumens. The WLED-WHP5 (white) provides 40 lumens. I haven't personally compared the two LED's, but the difference in lumens is substantial. I have the WLED-RHP5 (red) led's in my small spun aluminum gauges and they're a huge improvement over the OEM bulbs.
Carl
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...2FcompWLED.htm
Looks like the WLED-x5 (three versions of white) provide from 10-12 lumens. The WLED-WHP5 (white) provides 40 lumens. I haven't personally compared the two LED's, but the difference in lumens is substantial. I have the WLED-RHP5 (red) led's in my small spun aluminum gauges and they're a huge improvement over the OEM bulbs.
Carl
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If you go to superbrightled's website, you'll find the following specs:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...2FcompWLED.htm
Looks like the WLED-x5 (three versions of white) provide from 10-12 lumens. The WLED-WHP5 (white) provides 40 lumens. I haven't personally compared the two LED's, but the difference in lumens is substantial. I have the WLED-RHP5 (red) led's in my small spun aluminum gauges and they're a huge improvement over the OEM bulbs.
Carl
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...2FcompWLED.htm
Looks like the WLED-x5 (three versions of white) provide from 10-12 lumens. The WLED-WHP5 (white) provides 40 lumens. I haven't personally compared the two LED's, but the difference in lumens is substantial. I have the WLED-RHP5 (red) led's in my small spun aluminum gauges and they're a huge improvement over the OEM bulbs.
Carl
Last edited by soos; Feb 20, 2011 at 08:24 PM.
I took all of the incadecent lamps out of my light bar and experimented with LED's. set up arrays and brightness with resistors for balance so they were al the same, I imagine it would be the same doing gages and dash lights when converting to LEd's.
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Make sure to get the xHP5 version...they are the brighter ones. They fit either way into the socket, but only work one way (if it doesn't work, unplug and rotate 180 degrees and reinsert). Oh, buy at least one extra...shipping is the same, and it sucks when you get one bad one and have to reorder and pay for shipping again.
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here is the direct link to the small gauge led's
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...-x5.htm#photos
My bike being a '10 (not saure when it started) he was able to make the needles a different color and also the odometer can be wahtever you want.
Most definately one on my favorite winter mods.
More pics!
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...-x5.htm#photos
My bike being a '10 (not saure when it started) he was able to make the needles a different color and also the odometer can be wahtever you want.
Most definately one on my favorite winter mods.
More pics!
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Marty just did my gauges (I posted a thread a couple of weeks ago, and I posted pics in that thread). Here's the exact LEDs I used for the 4 smaller gauges: http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b.../WLED-xHP5.htm I went with blue, but they have a lot of different colors.
Make sure to get the xHP5 version...they are the brighter ones. They fit either way into the socket, but only work one way (if it doesn't work, unplug and rotate 180 degrees and reinsert). Oh, buy at least one extra...shipping is the same, and it sucks when you get one bad one and have to reorder and pay for shipping again.
Make sure to get the xHP5 version...they are the brighter ones. They fit either way into the socket, but only work one way (if it doesn't work, unplug and rotate 180 degrees and reinsert). Oh, buy at least one extra...shipping is the same, and it sucks when you get one bad one and have to reorder and pay for shipping again.