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Originally Posted by Gearbox Paul
Sorry revive this old thread. I find that my 2010 Ninja 250R has dim gauge back lighting and the gauges are difficult to read at night. I'd like to upgrade three gauge bulbs to brighter LED's and have them preferable in red. But I don't know how bright I need them to be. Ali Express and Ebay have T-10 bulbs that range from 30 lumens to 2000 lumens. The 2000 lumen bulbs are meant for car reverse lights and will obviously be too bright. On the other hand, I am concerned that 30 or 60 lumen bulbs won't be any brighter than the stock bulbs. I found some that are 300 lumens and I'm wondering if these would work (link below). Can someone comment and ideally share what bulbs they installed and the lumen output of these?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000...archweb201603_ |
I'm pretty sure you'll never find a 2,000 lumen T10 bulb. A 55W H4 headlight bulb is about 1,100 lumens. A standard 194 bulb should be about 25 lumens.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00877SL2M/ is what I bought for my 500 years ago (see my pics above). I'm not familiar with the 250's internal dash layout, but these 5x5050 LEDs do a good job of putting light out in all directions from the socket, similar to an incandescent bulb. For indicator bulbs or depending on the dash layout, something like
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AQB8JFQ/ that is only end-firing may work better.
Some LEDs will be slightly higher quality and output than others.
https://www.superbrightleds.com/ generally has good products. However, just about any T10/194 LED bulb made for automotive use will probably work just fine these days.