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DannoXYZ · July 26th, 2020, 10:30 AM

Hi Donell and welcome to Ninjette!

Please post photo of your LED bulbs and link to where you purchased them. In many cases, design of these bulbs are so poor that there's always issues with fitting them and getting better bulbs ends up being only solution. The low-end ones have generic mounting-base with an adapter ring to fit into original bulb-holders. This causes loose-fit and variable beam-patterns depending upon which way you wiggle bulb. Yes, spring-clip is required to hold bulb in place.

Also only bad low-end bulbs have fans. Better designed ones using higher-quality materials such as copper & aluminium heatsinks are smaller and don't require fans.

Aside from outright illegality of LED bulbs, they pose a serious risk to oncoming traffic with glare (above horizonal light spray). Which presents risk to you as well since blinded drivers tend to go in straight line in curve. So if you're on left-hand turn, blinded driver on other wide will miss their right turn and go straight into you.

Some background info on LED bulbs:
https://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...-Manufacturers
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/...ectors.454371/
https://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=348470

Note LED bulbs puts out LESS light than high-quality halogen bulbs. Best LED bulb on market, Philips XTreme Ultinon bulb generates 1760 lumens. Compare that to Phillips Long Life HIR2 9012LL bulb which is 2100 lumens.

The preferred way to go with LED is an projector-retrofit (still in grey area legally). At least that way, you're not blinding oncoming traffic with glare. Note that even with TWO LED bulbs in TWO projector-housings, output is still less than single HID light.
https://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=335983

Here's beam-pattern you want.

July 26th, 2020, 10:30 AM	#2
DannoXYZ ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: AKA JacRyann Location: Mesa, AZ Join Date: Dec 2011 Motorcycle(s): CB125T CBR250R-MC19 CBR250RR-MC22 NSR350R-MC21 VF500F CBR600RR SFV650 VFR750F R1M ST1300PA Valkyrie-F6C Posts: A lot. MOTY - 2018, MOTM - Nov '17	Hi Donell and welcome to Ninjette! Please post photo of your LED bulbs and link to where you purchased them. In many cases, design of these bulbs are so poor that there's always issues with fitting them and getting better bulbs ends up being only solution. The low-end ones have generic mounting-base with an adapter ring to fit into original bulb-holders. This causes loose-fit and variable beam-patterns depending upon which way you wiggle bulb. Yes, spring-clip is required to hold bulb in place. Also only bad low-end bulbs have fans. Better designed ones using higher-quality materials such as copper & aluminium heatsinks are smaller and don't require fans. Aside from outright illegality of LED bulbs, they pose a serious risk to oncoming traffic with glare (above horizonal light spray). Which presents risk to you as well since blinded drivers tend to go in straight line in curve. So if you're on left-hand turn, blinded driver on other wide will miss their right turn and go straight into you. Some background info on LED bulbs: https://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...-Manufacturers https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/...ectors.454371/ https://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=348470 Note LED bulbs puts out LESS light than high-quality halogen bulbs. Best LED bulb on market, Philips XTreme Ultinon bulb generates 1760 lumens. Compare that to Phillips Long Life HIR2 9012LL bulb which is 2100 lumens. The preferred way to go with LED is an projector-retrofit (still in grey area legally). At least that way, you're not blinding oncoming traffic with glare. Note that even with TWO LED bulbs in TWO projector-housings, output is still less than single HID light. https://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=335983 Here's beam-pattern you want. Last futzed with by DannoXYZ; July 26th, 2020 at 07:34 PM.