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LED conversion difficulties
Written by alfr4d on 2/13/2012 at 06:34 pm

These are my taillights Dave, because they seem so much bigger.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5578/ledlampjes.jpg

The lights were not red and they really have to be, so I do not know where to
acquire. It was bought years ago, when there was no choice in color of light. I
bought them on e-bay.

The middle and license plate light is a small bulb and they do not make lights
with lots of white light shining downwards and red light up front. Do not bather
this bulb but replace it with a clean conventional one (they will turn black on
the inside long before they burn out). After-all an LED light is not completely
without load either and in only one such small bulb there is not a lot to gain.

Alfred

--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Long" <dave13@...> wrote:
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> Doug [et al]:
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> First, a question. What LEDs did you use in the tail/brake lights? I used
> an 1157(red) replacement and it's a bayonet style that shoots the light
> upward. At night it's OK, but other riders complain by day. I'm trying to
> find a reasonably priced 1157 LED that has the "right angle" configuration
> for the PC's rear light setup. This was to fix my incandescent bulbs that
> were dim. I guess that this didn't fix my problem.
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> Next, my experience. I have a brake light modulator that flashed the lights
> three times before they stay on for the duration of braking. I am not sure
> of the brand name-it came with my PC800 so I didn't acquire/install it
> myself. That seems to alleviate the need for resistors in-line with the
> LEDs. [Oh, why are you against some small resistors with the LEDs?]
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> Dave
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> 89 PC800
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