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SALB Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 668 Whittier, AK Gender:	LED DAYMAKER STYLE HEADLIGHT 04/27/17 at 11:05:19 A little spendy, but I'm considering these. https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/led-headlight-bulbs-conversion-kits/...
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28905 L.A. California Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #1 - 04/27/17 at 11:42:10 After being wholly disappointed in the LED lights in my Vegas 7" bucket. I got one of these Jeep conversion lights. Haven't had the chance to get it on the road yet.
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2219 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #2 - 04/27/17 at 13:32:41 SALB, you can get the Daymaker lights on eBay for a lot less. I will make time one of these weekends to go by the HD dealership and see if I can get a used bucket that is in good shape for just a few bucks. If I can I will be ordering a Daymaker headlamp. I want to see if I can get it all for $70.00 or less, preferably less.
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badwolf Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' my Lil' Bagger - 153k miles so far Posts: 805 Palm Beach County, FL Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #3 - 04/27/17 at 13:46:38 Tocsik, Thanks for the info on the handguards. You would not think someone who grew-up outside Buffalo would get cold hands riding in a Fla winter, but I do! 2 weeks ago in Columbia SC with 42 degree mornings I would have liked them also.
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Reply #4 - 04/27/17 at 14:21:46

springman wrote on 04/27/17 at 13:32:41:

SALB, you can get the Daymaker lights on eBay for a lot less. I will make time one of these weekends to go by the HD dealership and see if I can get a used bucket that is in good shape for just a few bucks. If I can I will be ordering a Daymaker headlamp. I want to see if I can get it all for $70.00 or less, preferably less.

I just threw that out there as an example. I can't seem to find any info on which ones are DOT compliant (except the one I referenced), but Ebay has them as low as $50 and also in 5.75 inch.

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Re: LED Headlight Bulb
Reply #5 - 04/27/17 at 14:54:47

badwolf wrote on 04/24/17 at 10:49:01:

Dave, I swapped the housing also when doing the bulb. Went with a post mount metal one. Like this--

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-3-4-Chrome-Headlight-Shell-with-Bottom-Mounted-Head...
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This one is similar to the Vegas shell I got but mine is 7".
As you can see it comes with a bezel and a positioning plate.
I needed to make a gasket to fit between the bezel and the headlight.
It was just a little loose.

Because the daymaker is a projection lens, I don't think it'll matter whether it's 7 or 6" as the projection lenses are smaller anyway.

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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2219 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #6 - 04/27/17 at 19:29:39 Salb, most of the time on eBay they don't indicate if DOT approved. But if you enlarge the picture you can see the DOT stamp on the lens. Careful though, the cheaper ones actually say TOP so you know that side is up, but lack the DOT marking.
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2219 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #7 - 04/27/17 at 19:33:21 Versi, I just emailed the ebay seller to ask if the 5.75" daymaker lamp will fit in that housing without any modifications. I'll let you know what they say.
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Reply #8 - 04/27/17 at 20:23:56

springman, That housing looks just like the one I used. The bulb interfered on the back edge and I filed it down with a rasp to fit in. NOT the most ideal thing, but it worked. No room for any of the wiring that should go in there. You'll have to figure out what to do to hide it. The mount adapter is not too hard to make.
If you order it be sure you can send it back if it don't work. I would try to find one that looks longer.
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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2219 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #9 - 04/28/17 at 09:17:26 Thanks Badwolf.
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SALB Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 668 Whittier, AK Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #10 - 04/28/17 at 09:34:46 springman wrote on 04/27/17 at 19:29:39: Salb, most of the time on eBay they don't indicate if DOT approved. But if you enlarge the picture you can see the DOT stamp on the lens. Careful though, the cheaper ones actually say TOP so you know that side is up, but lack the DOT marking. Thanks for the hint.
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Reply #11 - 05/12/17 at 07:04:29

So I read through this thread, great read. Figured I throw my 2 cents in. I'm ignorant to most things about this bike (recent acquisition) but I understand basic circuitry (recent manufacturing and engineering grad). For those concerned with the 30w heat dump at the rectifier, my idea was if you measured the resistance of the original bulb, measured the resistance of the new LED (which might be higher than we expect because of the onboard circuitry) and put a resister (that matched the difference) in series with the bulb you should be able to maintain the same current. I double checked that general principle with our electrical engineer and said without doing the calculations it was a sound principle. He had a hard time believing the system wasn't regulated though, but I deferred to your expertise on that matter. Can you guys elaborate though on how this system operates without being regulated? Thanks,

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Reply #12 - 05/12/17 at 07:23:09

The system has a rectifier/regulator under the seat, it is bolted to the back fender. The concern was not that it isn't regulated - the concern is that the regulator works by dumping the left over energy into a resistor and it creates heat. When you take a 40 watt headlight out of the system and install a 20 watt LED.....those 20 watts are "excess" if you don't use them somewhere else - so the rectifier/regulators just adds those 20 watts to the energy that is is going to "dump" as heat.

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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2219 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #13 - 05/12/17 at 07:31:25 Versi, I had forgotten. I did get a response back from the seller. But the response was that he did not know.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28905 L.A. California Gender:	Re: LED Headlight Bulb Reply #14 - 05/12/17 at 07:36:40 What we have is a 3 phase generator, permanent magnets. Regulation (if you can call it that) is done at the outlet. 3 zener diodes shunt the surplus voltage to ground.
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