Tronbike Meter (TBM) 4.0.0 Test Ride

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

LED Bulbs for the Brakes, Signals and Running Lights

The bulbs and LED flasher relay from "www.autolumination.com" showed up today, I just installed them and took some comparison pictures.

The bulbs look great, brighter running lights than stock (LED on your left above), but the signal/brake activation is a little less dramatic than I'd like. I went with the 27 LED "SMT Tower "1157 amber and red pairs from, and re-used some 1156 LEDs left over from my car LED project - I can imagine growing a pile of these LEDs as the technology keeps improving. I have a pile of 1156 and 1157 incandescents leading the way.

In the images below, I have replaced 1 LED and then the 2nd LED. Pardon the "Jesus Movers" hiding my plate.

The flasher relay was really impressive too - I could run various combinations of LED or standard bulbs and it balanced them perfectly. I zip-tied the rubber mount from the original relay to the new relay, allowing me to mount it in the standard location.

Hopefully a little less power draw overall, now I am awaiting the 35 WATT H4 HID.

1 comments:

Frodus said...

wow, tons of progress, I've been reading daily (took a break from internet for christmas week). Impressive. I'm about to get some motor mounting and such situated with my bike, and hopefully have something to run in a couple months.