Battery Powered Headlights

Hi everyone,
I'm tired of my POS headlight.....it's totally unsafe at night when you have no streetlights to navigate by.....what in y'alls opinions are the best for the buck ?...I'm not speaking of generated headlights but just the kind where ya slap in some AA's......let me know please ?


Thanks,
Salty

I have had good luck with these.
Waterproof 5 LED Bike Head Light + Rear Safety Flashlig - eBay (item 250519358300 end time Oct-28-09 04:33:46 PDT)
Thus far I have purchased 7 for friends and family. At the price it is nice to have some spares around. Shipping takes a bit of time- check different sellers. A word of caution as I haven't been able to get the headlight strobe to work with my MB's. It works for a few minutes and then the vibration from the bike turn it off. I have never had a problem using the headlight in "constant on" mode. The 7 function strobe tail light works fine.

This uses 3 AA or AAA, $15 from Walmart. Bell white 3 LED light/flasher. Its worth buying because its a lot brighter than expected (useable light to maybe 20mph on road for just in case you get caught after dark). Its worth $15 because its a great visibility flasher or backup to a serious road light.

go to raido shack and get a feit 12v 50w halogen lamp. what i did was superglue it to a old broken speedometer mount and mouted it on my handelbars. then i got a green toggle switch from radioshack also and connected the red wire leading from the lamp to the switch. for a battery Cabelas has a 12v 8amp an hour battery for 15$ ("used for sonar") and connecteed the red to the other prong on the switch and connected the black wire from the lamp to the black terminal on the battery. works great.

Can you send a couple snaps of it ?......sounds like it would work great...

Thanks,
Salty

Hi,

I am interested in this too but I can't find a lamp like this (taken from another thread) http://motorbicycling.com/attachment...s-bobber-2.jpg or a fixture for a halogen lamp. How do you charge the battery? Will this battery do? Genesis - Genesis 12 Volt 7 Amp hour Sealed Lead Acid Battery with 0.187 inch Tab Terminal - NP7-12 - Home Depot Canada

Salty,
You're never gonna get respect at night with anything powered by a couple of AA batteries. I've seen some very nice hand held 12 volt spotlights, usually in the 30 to 50 watt catagory that will light up the night for you. They wouldn't take much to mount to your bike. Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) batteries are cheap and easily mounted. An inexpensive trickle charger will keep them charged when you're not riding and a battery in the 7 to 10 amp hour range will give you over an hour of usable light. I run a 30 watt one one of my bikes and a 55 watt on another. The bats are 7.5 amp hour and I've never ridden out the light.
Tom

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Hi guys I have a spot light i bought at home depot it quit workin on me so i took it apart and as luck would have it i had a trailer tail light that was the same as the light so i wired the light and also had another 6volt 4 watt battery mounted it over the front tire and out the battery in the bag i hang from my handle bars this is a million candle watt bulb and really lights up the road at night my question is can this be hooked up to the white wire and the other wire grounded and will that work without blowing the magneto

The mag is only good for 3 watts max. I bet your 1 million power light draws more that 3 measly watts.

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I basically use two of these. One is a different brand but same deal.

MTE P7 900 lumen LED Torch Kit - bikelights.com.au

Not all that cheap really but the light output is crazy. Its seriously like having a car headlight and 40mph plus riding through the hills with no other sources of lighting is not a problem.
The only issues I have with mine is that they switch modes to the first mode by themselves all the time which is annoying.