Brighter lights - 6v LED and halogen headlamp bulbs

[bevanclark]

Oh dear, this is embarassing ! I contemplated deleting my posting above, but thought I'd confess instead .

One of my (many) character flaws is jumping to conclusions.

After some careful testing on the bench of my conventional twin filament tail/stop light bulb and Paul's LED one with an accurate ammeter, I have realised that when I wired the bike a couple of years ago I have swapped the power leading the two filaments. Thus, when I have been depressing the brake, the tail light filament has lit up !

This explains why I couldn't spot a difference when I applied the brake with the lights on when the LED in place - the much brighter bit was already lit up. Also explains why a Warrant of Fitness (similar to an MOT) tester complained that my brake light was crap !

Sigh.

Here endeth my confession.

Cheers,
Bevan

[fpassmore]

There we go, I figured something like that was the problem. Good you got to it first and figured out what went wrong in the first place.
We all do little things to confuse ourselves. Working on my RE headlight yesterday, why won’t this go on when I put the switch on full lights???? This one is modern enough the headlight works when the engine comes to life and there is power from the alternator. Too many variables to keep track of I would say.
Frank

[simon.holyfield]

Sigh.

Here endeth my confession.

We've all done it. My latest was rewiring a tail light that was dim in both positions, only to find that the bike wasn't positive earth at all and I'd bought the wrong bulb.

[nevhunter]

You CAN use a single tail light "Bright" Bulb in series with a resistance and you bypass the resistance to make the bulb brighter, imitating a stop light. The only requirement with this is you MUST have the tail light on "PARK" at least. Nev