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Lighting Again...

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BDI:
I have this Idea that I have been concidering for awhile. There is a company called http://www.terraluxcorp.com/products/index.php that makes super bright LEDs for flash lights. They have some that they say are 200 lumins and they have their own reflector built on. I plan on putting two of these in some small lazer star lights that I have and running them off of a moose coil. If it works I will have 400 lumins of light out put with a low voltage system. One thing to consider for you guys using the E-line set up you can still run the moose coil on the stator plate to run something else. I used my E-line to run the head lights and the moose coil to run a lighted whip. I even considered running the moose coil in series with the E-line to increas out put. I think this would work, it would just be like adding more coils to the E-line but I never had the curage to try It. It would suck to burn up all that money. You could have two separate systems use the moose coil to run all the blinkers and tail light and the E-line for the head light you could even have a swicth that would shut off the moose coil and leave the head light on for ticket avoidance maneuvering at night. :evil:

Desert Panther:
BDI, i like the way you think!  :-D

How much real world output do you think the moose lighting coil makes? I am needing this info to choose the proper headlight. Will a 35 watt work?  Or am i dreaming? Can the moose coils be doubled up, like run two of them on the same stator plate? I am not super familiar with the mechanics and space requirements. I know, i know, i should just pony up the money for a E-line, but LOL i am cheap! I thought about running white LED headlamps, but i doubt they will win me any fans with the local LEO's. So for right now I am just putting some generic lil plastic crap thing i got on ebay for 23 bucks. If i run that and LED taillamps, will the moose stator kit flux capacitor work? Or will I need the 14 jigawatts generated by the E-Line kit?

I have a dual lamp headlight off a sportbike, that i am planning on grafting onto the KX after i get my MVD certificate and license plate. I will need the headlight upgrade for night time strafing runs through the mountainsides and backroads. I think it holds two 55/75 watt bulbs. no frikkin way without the E-Line kit, eh???  LOL   go easy on me

demographic:
If that Moose coil is anything like the Electrex one I have fitted its about as much use as a chocolate fireguard :-(
I too have been considering changing to the super bright LED things or maybe even the HID units as they seem to be avaliable on Ebay a lot these days.

Some of the HID units even have a dipped beam facility which pulls the "bulb" back slightly in the reflector using a small solenoid.

Those are stated at requiring about 35 watts and I already have LED bulbs in my tail light, like this...

I have LED indicators as well, so my power requirements are not big but I detest crap front lights, I ride on thr road and need to see where I am going properly, my current setup is woefully inadequate and I never seem to have the money for the Eline setup.

BDI:
I'm just looking to put some get you back to camp head lights on my K5. The kind of led you are showing is joke they might be bright and hurt your eyes to look at but they don't project light worth a crap. I have a single terralux led in My AA mini mag that is rated at 100 lumins It way out performs My big mag light with four C cell battereis.These are the type of LEDs that they use In the high end tactical lights Like the $180.00 surefire they are nothing like the LED flash lights with multiple LEDs like you can buy at 7-eleven for $10.00. If what I want to do works like I think it will it should be like haveing four big mag lights straped to the front of my bike only brighter with a white light instead of a dull brown light.

Desert Panther:
Well Hell BDI, git to work inventin' and fabricating all this neat stuff so as i can start applying it to my project bike!   :-D 

BTW, speaking of my project bike, LOL, anybody know of a bigger-than-stock sized fuel tank to fit the 1987 KX5? I cannot find one new or used anywhere, even on Fleabay. I think the stock sized tank will be woefully inadequate.

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