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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #60 on: December 05, 2011, 05:42:00 PM »
Hey Mike, what rating are those?

Are you only using them for daytime running lights?

Also, how do you like the fender mount point, do you think it's solid enough?

Sir,

These are the 550Lm model. Just the 3 "bulb" versions as I did not want to deal with a dimmer.  And thus far I've used them day and night, no problems with on-comming traffic.

Mounting point on the fender seems to be perfect. Infinitely more stable than my cobbled up brackets. Which by the way held 3 or 4 pairs of lights stable on the same number of bikes. Here, with the bracket on the light the way it is, amplified any movement up and down and bent both the light bracket and my scratch built brackets. Seems there is less room for flex with the light brackets in this orientation as opposed to my first attempt.

Note to those using these lights...The glass will not take a significant hit from road debris. Didn't grab a pic, but the lens shattered from something tossed up from a friends rear tire while running "spiritedly" on a chip and seal road Sunday. Easy enough fix with some Lexan and an hour. Lesson learned!

Mike
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #61 on: December 07, 2011, 11:02:22 AM »
I'm planning on going with the 550lm (http://24x7diy.com/product_info.php/cPath/23/products_id/33) version for day/night running lights since I don't really have a use for the higher output since I ride in a lot of traffic. 

Is the headlight switched power lead easily accessible? Is it blue/white?
Also, there looks to be only one wire out of the lights, do they just ground themselves to the mount?

I'll wire it up like the diagram below, and may just get the prefab'd wiring harness at PepBoys. (Pilot Motorsports: Wiring Harness w/Switch part PL-HARN3). I'll need to get a different switch though cause I want a round one for the empty spot next to the left headlight adjuster. Any help on where to get that?  Murph has one with his grip heaters.

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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #62 on: December 07, 2011, 03:47:29 PM »
Caffinated-  Look at page three of this thread.  I had posted a pretty detailed writeup of how and where I mounted and wired my lights.  I am sure that this will be of help in identifying wires and locations. 

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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #63 on: December 08, 2011, 05:37:14 AM »
Caffinated-  Look at page three of this thread.  I had posted a pretty detailed writeup of how and where I mounted and wired my lights.  I am sure that this will be of help in identifying wires and locations. 

armyguns.....

Yep, I read it.  Great write-up, and would be the way I would go, but I don't think I need that much light output.  I don't have a fuse box (yet), so will just need to pull power from some switched source.
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #64 on: December 23, 2011, 08:44:51 PM »
I just order a set of those LED lights for my 09 concours and this is my idea :
It has HID on it so this idea is only for a concours with HID
HID lights come with it's own relay and are connected directly to the battery and use the headlights circuit to control them only by one of the H4 light bulb connectors, and don't draw any amps from that circuit that is designed to handle  in high beam 60 W x 2 and in low beam 55  W x 2 with 2 relays one for high beam and other for low beam, right now with the HID"s that circuit is doing nothing so i will use it to connect the new LED lights  to the other H4 light bulb connector that also is doing nothing right now, in between will install a toggle 3 positions switch that will command this LED's OFF in the center, ON with  high beams in the  position 1 at one end and ON  with low beams in the position 2 at the other end, this is easy for me to understand because I'm a auto mechanic and i know about electric circuits  and will be hard for anyone how don't know about
I will mount the  LED lamps under the mirrors, they have a thick metal bracket so i have to drill in the midle of the 3 bolts that hold the mirror to the mount and tap for a M 6 theads 
Does any one knows where can i get a weather resistant  toggle switch with center position off?
Any suggestion will be appreciated, I'm not a native English speaker so i apologize if my writing is hard to understand
Hope you guys understand what i mean
Thanks
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #65 on: December 23, 2011, 08:49:26 PM »
I have these hooked up to a switched lead from my aux fuze block.  I installed a simple on-off toggle switch in a Radio Shack 'hobby box' and used heavy duty hook and loop strips (velcro) to fasten the box under the left handgrip.  I can easily flick the switch with the thumb of my left hand.  Forward is OFF (push off). 

I still want to experiment with tying into the high beam circuit with a relay so they come on with the highbeams.  I think I found an on-line source for a "pot" to be able to turn down the brightness.  As I sort it all out, I'll post additional info if anyone wants it.

Is that switch weather resistant?
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #67 on: January 07, 2012, 03:37:41 PM »
Here are some pictures
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #68 on: January 08, 2012, 12:43:10 PM »
More pictures
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #69 on: January 08, 2012, 06:51:58 PM »
Looks great!  I may add lights to the front fender and under the mirrors.
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #70 on: January 10, 2012, 06:13:24 PM »
Now here is a picture of the switch
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #71 on: June 04, 2012, 05:50:49 PM »
 ;)

so is there going to be a group buy for the 3000lmn units per pair??

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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #72 on: December 09, 2012, 06:41:04 PM »
Here is mi report of those lights after 10 months of work:
I have those lights on my bike:( http://24x7diy.com/product_info.php/cPath/23_45/products_id/34) and they fail after 10 months using them about 20 minutes every morning on my way to work aproximately 73 hours, two leds on each lamp burnout at the same time, i email the company on India where i get them and the say that LED's fail only for overheating, and this is not the case on mine because i mount them under the mirrors , finaly i end having to buy from them the LED's that cost  $62.00 and replacing  by myself, now they work fine again , when i did the work find that there was not enough heat sink compound  betwen the LED's and the heat sink plate to transfer the heat and due to that they overheat and fail, i think that there is not a good  customer service from this place so i do not recomend to any body  to buy from this place
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #73 on: December 10, 2012, 11:53:49 AM »
Here is mi report of those lights after 10 m onths of work:
I have those lights on my bike:( http://24x7diy.com/product_info.php/cPath/23_45/products_id/34) and they fail after 10 months using them about 20 minutes every morning on my way to work aproximately 73 hours, two leds on each lamp burnout at the same time, i email the company on India where i get them and the say that LED's fail only for overheating, and this is not the case on mine because i mount them under the mirrors , finaly i end having to buy from them the LED's that cost  $62.00 and replacing  by myself, now they work fine again , when i did the work find that there was not enough heat sink compound  betwen the LED's and the heat sink plate to transfer the heat and due to that they overheat and fail, i think that there is not a good  customer service from this place so i do not recomend to any body  to buy from this place

Good review and thanks for the caution, I was seriously considering these as I read this thread until I got to your final post...and you communicate fine for not being a native English speaker!

Your review saved me!  Thanks!

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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #74 on: December 10, 2012, 04:08:00 PM »
Glad to know that
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #75 on: December 11, 2012, 03:33:40 AM »
Here is mi report of those lights after 10 months of work:
I have those lights on my bike:( http://24x7diy.com/product_info.php/cPath/23_45/products_id/34) and they fail after 10 months using them about 20 minutes every morning on my way to work aproximately 73 hours, two leds on each lamp burnout at the same time, i email the company on India where i get them and the say that LED's fail only for overheating, and this is not the case on mine because i mount them under the mirrors , finaly i end having to buy from them the LED's that cost  $62.00 and replacing  by myself, now they work fine again , when i did the work find that there was not enough heat sink compound  betwen the LED's and the heat sink plate to transfer the heat and due to that they overheat and fail, i think that there is not a good  customer service from this place so i do not recomend to any body  to buy from this place

Thanks for the info as I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on getting some LED Driving lights. Now I'm going to have to re-evaluate who (24x7diy or ADVmonster) I'm going to purchase from. I still may go with 24x7diy, but if I do, I'll open them up and check and add the heat sink compound if needed. Heck... no matter who I go with I'm going to check the heat sink compound.
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #76 on: December 12, 2012, 01:46:07 PM »
Thanks for the info as I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on getting some LED Driving lights. Now I'm going to have to re-evaluate who (24x7diy or ADVmonster) I'm going to purchase from. I still may go with 24x7diy, but if I do, I'll open them up and check and add the heat sink compound if needed. Heck... no matter who I go with I'm going to check the heat sink compound.

I'd go with the MondoMotos MM10 bullets...check out the ADV forum vendor section, or here.....http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=10701.msg135769#msg135769
and....here....http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=11111.msg135771#msg135771
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #77 on: December 12, 2012, 02:35:02 PM »
+1 on the MondoMotos MM10 bullets...I have them on our 2010 and love them.   ;D
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Re: LED Driving light
« Reply #78 on: December 13, 2012, 04:01:10 AM »
I do a LOT of night time driving, so IMHO the MondoMotos MM10 bullets are not as powerful as I'd like.

I'm looking at these for my driving light needs. :
ADVmonster Model 60 - http://stores.advmonster.com/-strse-41/Model-60-LED-off/Detail.bok
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24x7DIY's 4 LED 3100Lm - http://24x7diy.com/product_info.php/products_id/172

I'll be looking at the MM10's (and others in this lumen range) later for when I do the fog lights.
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