Interesting LED headlight conversion kit

[Shaarth]

I'd be curious to see the beam pattern once installed.

The price is attractive. 

The beam pattern has more to do with the reflector in the headlight housing. The FJ1200 is a good design and seems to be very tolerant with bulbs. The are some Philips LED Bulbs that has adjustments that will move the bulb in and out to focus the light pattern better. The standard halogen 55/60 watt bulb has about 1100 to 1500 lumens. I try to buy Philips, because they are high end design. My 4000 lumens only puts out 30watts. That's why some better design bulbs don't need a fan motor. They are more efficient. Look in the car section of Ebay for better deals. I don't think the companies redesigned bulbs just for motorcycles. The H-4 bulb fit's cars and bikes. And so will LED's. You get two bulbs. Put one on another bike or use as a spare.

[Earl Svorks]

I see what you're saying in regards to not much room there,after looking at pictures of FJs I had come to much the same conclusion..

how do you have your aux lights wired ? high beam only?

I've been researching small lights to put on the forks (probably fab brackets off the caliper mounts) I'd love to find something maybe 1.5" around max and dim enough to use as DRLs and night time "low beam" but bright enough to see across the intersection (maybe 50 feet) for that position (these I dont mind cheapie "offshore manufactured" lights

then a set of high powered lights up higher to use as auxiliary high beams..
these are where I'm planning to spend some money and get some SERIOUS lights...

Possibly the Baja Design Squadron pro or S2 pro

I like where you have yours at the air scoops...
I've seen brackets off the oil cooler too and that's a posibility
Or on the frame between the upper fairing and chin spoiler (where people bolt crash bars) but with a bracket the will put the in front of the frame rather than outboard

I can't wait for winter to be over  

Sorry guys I did'nt mean to threadjack...I'll start a new Auxiliary lighting thread

  Scotter,
I think it would be a poor choice to mount any sort of light on the fork sliders. Three reasons,1, the light is going to look like a freaking strobe ,bouncing around with the wheel. #2,, That bouncing around will be tortures for the light itself.
#3 Adding unsprung weight should be avoided in any case.
    Simon

[Scottericsonon]

well I finally pulled the trigger on a LED bulb upgrade.....
I ended up with an Auxbeam F16 in the H4 flavor....

it's a nice light ..good beam pattern (out of the lens on my FJ YMMV)

A worde to the wise tho....if you decide to purchase this particular bulb make sure you loctite the little gold colored endcap/shield on the bulb...otherwise it might drop off,into your headlight housing and you'll have to spend 45 minutes fishing it out with a little claw tool (ask me how I know)



I'm still looking at auxillary lighting and haven't yet decided what I want (within my wife-approved budget)

[ribbert]

I've watched this thread come and go for years. There are only limited choices for improving the FJ headlight and they have all been done over and over by forum members with only moderate improvement and still fall well short of decent lighting.
I have also tried a few of these out myself. Sure, better colour here, wider beam there but nothing that really turns the headlight into something you can use for true night time riding.

To this end I abandoned the whole idea of improving the headlight with the current available technology and moved on to auxiliary lights. They cost me less than the money I wasted experimenting with globes and are a quantum leap in illumination.

The FJ has plenty of mounting options, the mirror bases, engine bars, fairing (I don't like fork tubes or axles, too low), I mounted mine here.





They are 3600 lumens each, draw next to no power, not effected by vibration and being LED's should last forever. Mount and forget.

I can't even describe what it's like riding through twisties at night as fast as you would in the day because you can see right around the corner in 6000k "daylight" while the bike's cranked over and turning.

I have tried them on an unlit, un signed, no white posts, no centre line, narrow winding road at night and would rate them comfortably as an 80mph light. It is not just the road that is lit up but the sides and the tree canopy as well, eliminating the tunnel vision and loss of perspective that a small pool of light on the road ahead oftens causes.

There are better lights but I'm no longer an intentional night rider and considering the likely amount of use against the cost, these were a great compromise.

Just something to consider for those that have an actual need to see at night and want a solution to the lighting issue.

Noel

[shudnobetter]

I've watched this thread come and go for years. There are only limited choices for improving the FJ headlight and they have all been done over and over by forum members with only moderate improvement and still fall well short of decent lighting.
I have also tried a few of these out myself. Sure, better colour here, wider beam there but nothing that really turns the headlight into something you can use for true night time riding.

To this end I abandoned the whole idea of improving the headlight with the current available technology and moved on to auxiliary lights. They cost me less than the money I wasted experimenting with globes and are a quantum leap in illumination.

The FJ has plenty of mounting options, the mirror bases, engine bars, fairing (I don't like fork tubes or axles, too low), I mounted mine here.





They are 3600 lumens each, draw next to no power, not effected by vibration and being LED's should last forever. Mount and forget.

I can't even describe what it's like riding through twisties at night as fast as you would in the day because you can see right around the corner in 6000k "daylight" while the bike's cranked over and turning.

I have tried them on an unlit, un signed, no white posts, no centre line, narrow winding road at night and would rate them comfortably as an 80mph light. It is not just the road that is lit up but the sides and the tree canopy as well, eliminating the tunnel vision and loss of perspective that a small pool of light on the road ahead oftens causes.

There are better lights but I'm no longer an intentional night rider and considering the likely amount of use against the cost, these were a great compromise.

Just something to consider for those that have an actual need to see at night and want a solution to the lighting issue.

Noel

I love the lights...looking similar for mine. Any chance you can post a link to where you got your's?

[simi_ed]

I am also getting a little battle-weary of the continued effort to improve old lighting.  I have found the purrrr-fect aux lighting.  Now I just have to work out the mounting ...