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7/14/2025, 7:57:57 AM
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Yeah I'm actually converting everything to LED except the headlight. Mainly I want to have brighter lights on the dash since it's hard to see the fuel light and the neutral light in the daytime, and it's hard to see the speedo and trip meter at night, because they're all extremely dim. But I got amber LEDs for all of them to maintain the warm vintage dash feel. And went ahead and ordered LEDs for the turn signals while I'm at it. I will also be able to stick the extras in my VFR750 dash.
I am not replacing the main headlight because I couldn't find a good LED bulb that has the same warm color as the incandescent bulb while also seeming the same shape as the OEM one. Definitely not going to put that cold blue crap in a tu250x. But also, the headlight is the main power draw and I'm not adding heated grips yet so I want to keep it to have a balanced power system. When you "save power" by having LED lights, the stator still generates the same amount of power, and if the battery is full your rectifier just gets hot to waste the extra juice. So you aren't really saving any power. All the heat you're not generating inside the light fixtures is just getting generated inside the rectifier instead and melting it.
>>28514212
>>28514240
>>28514238
>>28514245
Yeah I'm actually converting everything to LED except the headlight. Mainly I want to have brighter lights on the dash since it's hard to see the fuel light and the neutral light in the daytime, and it's hard to see the speedo and trip meter at night, because they're all extremely dim. But I got amber LEDs for all of them to maintain the warm vintage dash feel. And went ahead and ordered LEDs for the turn signals while I'm at it. I will also be able to stick the extras in my VFR750 dash.
I am not replacing the main headlight because I couldn't find a good LED bulb that has the same warm color as the incandescent bulb while also seeming the same shape as the OEM one. Definitely not going to put that cold blue crap in a tu250x. But also, the headlight is the main power draw and I'm not adding heated grips yet so I want to keep it to have a balanced power system. When you "save power" by having LED lights, the stator still generates the same amount of power, and if the battery is full your rectifier just gets hot to waste the extra juice. So you aren't really saving any power. All the heat you're not generating inside the light fixtures is just getting generated inside the rectifier instead and melting it.
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