curious. when i put a 6volt light on the white wire the bike ran great but i had to make sure the light was off for the motor to start. you having the same issue?
how many and what size batteries were the lights designed to run on originally, and how long have you been running these lights with no fuses?
curious. when i put a 6volt light on the white wire the bike ran great but i had to make sure the light was off for the motor to start. you having the same issue?
I'm not either, I linked both the 50-pack and the CREE LED, but I'll probably use the CREE LED for that exact reason! I think .35 watts should be fine off the magneto, as long as it runs half-decent-- I probably won't be going top-speed at night anyway. =) five bucks for a driver and high-power LED is great if you already have a good housing.I'm not a fan of the whole "cram as many LEDs into a flashlight as you can" mentality. I've got a .25 watt Cree LED flashlight (It's an aluminium high-powered flashlight by Coleman). It's one single extremely bright LED, and it has a proper LED driver which is more efficient and can act as a regulator. The lights with a ton of LEDs usually just have a resistor for each LED, which hogs power.
Be sure you use a good heatsink! The single LED solutions are my favorite but they do get rather warm and can burn out without a heatsink. It's not as big of an issue with the low wattage (under 1W) ones, but the issue is still there.I'm not either, I linked both the 50-pack and the CREE LED, but I'll probably use the CREE LED for that exact reason! I think .35 watts should be fine off the magneto, as long as it runs half-decent-- I probably won't be going top-speed at night anyway. =) five bucks for a driver and high-power LED is great if you already have a good housing.
Bigbutterbean.
I don't think the 50 led that I saw pulled from 4 AA batteries. I blew one that had three batteries when I was experimenting with different lights. The 76 led light that I got on e-bay has given me no problems but it uses 4 AA batteries which = 6 volts.