Who rides at night?

[Mark Donovan]

Thanks for the details!

[Darkside]

I remember 4 wheeling off road at night. Makes molehills look like mountains. The shadows play tricks

[GMP]

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Almost ready to test this baby. Putting finishing touches on the quick change mount.

[wasatchcomm]

Can you wire that in to the stock lighting harness?

[GMP]

Its an entirely custom setup but yes it can be made plug and play with the same connector as the Beta headlight. It draws about the same current from the stator as the stock halogen bulb, with a lot more light. This is not something you want on the bike all the time, its a bit big and heavy, but good for a night race with some open sections. If it holds up on the rough local trail it will be good to go for the smoother faster race course.

[wasatchcomm]

That's awesome
I have a light similar to that
I purchased for my sleds but maybe I can get the correct connector and take it with and use it for a night ride
Never tried night ride on a bike
On snowy days it was fun on a sled you can see better at night in the snow
I'm sure it would be fun on a bike
But probably more challenging as well

[GMP]

Went out Sat night for a couple hours and the light held up great. Easy to adjust and everything stayed tight. The trail was rough for a torture test and some tight, I found the light to be of limited value as the spot beam danced around. Helmet light as before was key. This will change on a smooth fast course.

[cag33]

Bumping this back up. Can someone post up which rectifier they have used and how they wired it? I have a 300rr and would like to install a led 20w 1600l light. It says 10-30 rated volts. Or I was actually thinking of wiring straight to battery with a on off switch and just unplug and remove the stock light. Any ideas?

[GMP]

Do not hook an LED array up to the battery. I know a guy who did that and things got dark in the woods. Seriously, the charging ckt. is approx 15W, so anything more that that and your in a constant loss mode. My lights worked perfect at the 24hr race. For a rectifier, you don't need a high electrical capacity, but the smaller bridges are primarily for PC board applications. A 25A -35A part with Stakon terminals, mounting hole, and alloy case is cheap and easy to deal with as far as mounting, and 5 or 6 times the capacity so you will not have a problem. You just have to observe one thing, DO NOT connect the - output of the rectifier to any other gnd on the bike, it goes to the light only. + output to light + of course and the AC input terminals to the AC power of the stator and gnd. You can use the headlight connector as a supply to the bridge. LED arrays have their own internal driver and operate over a wide voltage range so an additional regulator is not
needed. Here is an example of bridge rectifier :

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Gen ... Fo5g%3d%3d

[ballisticexchris]

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