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Hi All,
I put a brand new bulb in last night after work and I rode off to class, about a 15 minute ride, city driving. This is the second Philips 9003 (they come in a 2-pack). High and low beam working. J_O_G unfortunately the bulb blew before I could test with a good bulb in, but I'll try again once I get a new (higher quality) bulb.
When I turned my bike off, the lights were working. When I turned it back on at night, 4-5 hours later, both high beam and low beam were off. This is different than what happened to the last bulb. Low beam burnt out first, then high beam burnt out the next day.
I am suspicious.. perhaps when I turn the bike off using the handlebar on/off switch, it is sending some voltage spike to the headlamp. What else could be burning the bulb out WHILE the bike is off?
NO OTHER BULB IS HAVING A PROBLEM -- as a matter of fact, I haven't replaced a bulb in 2 years of riding besides this head lamp and an entire turn signal swap after a kid pulled my bike down and snapped it off. There's no flickering, no super bright lamps or anything of the sort.
Dave, thanks for joining the conversation. On the high beam wire, I could produce the 16-19V 25% of the time, and could never produce it on the low beam. Once the bike was hot, I tried and tried to produce the 16-19V spike on the high beam again but I could not. It's probably not the regulator (is regular the same as rectifier?) according to the fact that no other bulbs are burning out.
Ruttly, I saw the analog meter and almost bought it just because it was so cheap. I don't think it will hurt to have one in my tool kit.
Batman/Ruttly, if I have enough daylight after work today I'll get out there and test the ohm/AC on the stator wires. When I do OHM, it is correct that I want to have the bike off right?
Thanks so much! AJ
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