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[Ryan n Angela]

Looking good overall, im planing on doing my centre binicale in the near future and all my lights, even toying with replacing the bulb in the headlights as my halogens are about as much use as candles in the wind... lol

[sherly]

Just need to point out to everyone here that using a plain LED for the ignition warning lamp will stop the alternator working and in the long term will damage it. There is a way to do it but you need to add a resistive load and some additional diodes.

 

Yep - very good point which hasn't been mentioned in this thread and is very important.

 

Aside from potentially causing damage to the alternator I didn't see a need to change the alt charge bulb or ign warning lamps anyway as they are only on briefly.  

 

When I did mine I just changed the dash illumination bulbs, turn indicator bulbs and main beam illumination bulb....... 

[IainStallard]

Just need to point out to everyone here that using a plain LED for the ignition warning lamp will stop the alternator working and in the long term will damage it. There is a way to do it but you need to add a resistive load and some additional diodes.

 Yep - very good point which hasn't been mentioned in this thread and is very important. Aside from potentially causing damage to the alternator I didn't see a need to change the alt charge bulb or ign warning lamps anyway as they are only on briefly.   When I did mine I just changed the dash illumination bulbs, turn indicator bulbs and main beam illumination bulb.......

When I installed my bulbs, I only did the illumination bulbs as the indicator and main beam bulbs are bright enough already in my opinion

[bikewiz]

Just need to point out to everyone here that using a plain LED for the ignition warning lamp will stop the alternator working and in the long term will damage it. There is a way to do it but you need to add a resistive load and some additional diodes.

Knowing a fair bit about electricity this doesn't make sense. The ignition warning light is low wattage and is only in play when the ignition is triggered or if the ignition fails, it doesn't operate when the car is running otherwise it would always be illuminated. The resistance of the bulb shouldn't make any difference.

Explain why you think it would.

[tomb1992]

Managed to fit some blue ones! was a straight swap for the old bulbs   

http://www.ebay.co.u...984.m1423.l2649

will clean the dial covers tomorrow bit smudged haha