lightbulb brightness By puddle jumper (Read 1,520 times)

[puddle jumper]

I Dont know a whole heck of a lot about electronics on a scooter other than the use of cheep materials. My question is what can i do to the turn and marker lights to make them brighter? I put in led's but the original bulbs are brighter than these i just put in.

[Alleyoop]

Which LEDS did you put in, mine are 1156 and 1157 bulbs and put LEDS in and they are very bright.
Maybe you got the wrong LEDS or the wrong color.
Alleyoop

[Cruiser]

There are different types of LED's used for the replacements for incandescent bulbs found in scoots and autos. The standard LED's are not usually as bright as the incandescents they replace. The brightest LED's use surface mount technology and are different looking because they are made up of little square or rectangular panels that emit the light. Also known as SMD LEDs:

www.lc-led.com/Products/department/29

Another thing to remember when using LED bulbs is to use the same color LED's as the lens cover. Red LED's for brake lights and amber LED's for directionals and clear LED's for license plate and dash lights.

[sprocket]

You can by direct LED replacements for the 1156-7 bulbs They are about twice as bright as a bulb

I use these guys. They ship out of China so it takes a few weeks..

www.wardenjp.com/stores/11567.html

[puddle jumper]

I will post a pic what I'm talking about when i get home

[sprocket]

Did you add an load resistor to the flasher circuit? You may need to change the flasher to one that is designed to run LEDs or out in a resistor

There are about 1 million LEDs some are bright some aren't...

[Alleyoop]

Yes, I got the ones with the little square outs on them, also got them from Warren overseas like the ones Sprocket mentioned. My wife was following me one day and she said she could hardly see when I put the brakes on and the turn signals in the bright sunny day she could not see at all. But know with those LEDS in they can be seen very clearly in the sunlight they are very bright. At night they are like night and day.
Alleyoop

[puddle jumper]

here is what the bulb looks like

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[Alleyoop]

Is that an LED bulb? Is that for your instrument panel? I never seen anything so small for Tail Lights or Stop Lights or Turn Signals?
Alleyoop

[puddle jumper]

That is what the guy I bought it from said it was for my turn signals and instrument panel Alley I think I got ripped off.

[sprocket]

That single LED is at best is a single T10 wide angle. This shows an 1156 and what it should look like.

It has about 40 times the light...

The bulb you have works fine for the instrument panel and I use 4 of them for a license plate light...

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[Alleyoop]

Take your stop and turn signals bulb out and see if they are not 1156 and 1157, they will look like a regular Car bulbs but smaller.
Here is what I got for my Turn Signals and Stop/Running liights:

2pcs 1156 13W High Power LED(AMBER) Turn Signals.
2pcs 1157 13W High Power LED(RED) for Stop/Tail Lights.
Alleyoop

[puddle jumper]

my turnsignals are 196's and the stop/ tail light is 1157

[sprocket]

Alley do you have links to those bulbs???

There is no 196 bulb...are you certain it is not a 194?

[puddle jumper]

Ok it might be a 194 I'm no electrician