LED Parking Lights
 

Getting tired of replacing my parking lights and number plate light. The wedge style globe is just too fragile for a big single.

Purchased a few T10 7020 SMD Leds from eBay and hoping for a bit more longevity. The LEDs are supposedly vibration proof with a service life of around 30,000 hours...... In my opinion they still look pretty fragile.

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P2240646.jpg

The globes I chose are supposedly 500 lumens...they do appear to be brighter.

They work out around the same price as a standard wedge globe. If they last more than 12 months I will be happy. Time will tell

I am not particularly interested in their parking function....Just want to be more visible to oncoming traffic.

Below are some before and after pics.

BEFORE:

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P2240645.jpg

AFTER:

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...t/P2240649.jpg

Fingers crossed they will last a bit longer for you. The cheap ones don't tend to last long. I changed my parkers to LED about 12 months ago & touch wood are still fine. Got them from Supercheap Autos, and at least they are a bit less draining on the side light circuit if your running a few accessories from there too.

Seahorse, can you post a link to where you bought those please? I hate that faint mellow glow of the standard bulbs.

Smart looking lights!..I might have to get some of them..lovely..

Definitely an improvement on the originals...and it's great how little power the Led's use. Steve

LEDs are definitely the way to go. Both fronts and the reg plate lamps went within the first two months of owning my Ten. Fitted LEDs at the end of 2008 and the same ones are still in there now getting on for eight years later!

Just search eBay

"T10 7020"

or

"Wedge LED"

That way you should get some UK sellers in your results...as well as several hundred Chinese sellers..!!!

The 7020 LED chip is relatively new.

Note: You will pay more for "Canbus" variants of these wedge lights....they are not necessary on the XT660 bikes...

led spotlights
 

were yours item no 351660505262 in the description box? I want to make sure I get the same ones.

I just did a quick search of eBay (Australia) using "T10 7020"

As I am located in Australia, eBay gave me quite a few results mainly from Australian and Chinese sellers.,

I normally buy from Australian sellers, even though they are slightly more expensive, postage is always far quicker.

Here is a link to one of the Chinese sellers.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Car-10-LE...gAAOSweW5VZoJR

They do post to the UK

The search I used was T10 (this is the type of lamp...also known as a wedge type) The 7020 stands for the type of LED chip used. A single 7020 chip will produce 45-50 Lumens. The ones I bought had 10 x 7020 chips which should give an output around 450 - 500 lumens.

Hope this helps...

I put two of 5050 T10 with 5 leds
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...213_190350.jpg

But I do not like the blueish color...ordered pure white ones
T10 9 LED 5050 SMD. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...660/%24_57.JPG
I have them on my car(differect socket tho) and they are pure white, whiter than my 5000k xenons.

Just ordered some....it seems a great result for a tiny amount of money. Steve

hi greatescape have you got the ebay link.

cheers beany

Hi be any, just type in T10 7020 led lights.....you will be spoilt for choice.. Steve

Same here Steve , great little mod, as you say small out lay great results!..

ok thanks

Did you mod the wiring so they stay on while your riding?

Phil
ACT

bulbs ordered from china should be here by friday,will be fitted on saturday
cheers everyone

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Yeah job done
Works fine.

Fitted mine yesterday looks great. Now i want to change the low beam bulb to match its colour anyone found a good match?

Yeah not looked into it. yet, I think. It's a H4? Type ?
I'm sure someone will post an answer on here

Phil

See the photo bomb!
Astro..

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Without xenon/hid you won't get near that blueish color of those cool blue leds. It would be much easier with pure white bulbs.. I have Narva Range power white bulbs and pure white leds on my car and they are almost the same. Whitest halogen bulbs I know and have used them many times. However theres a tradeoff: you loose alot light range with them cause white/blue light spectrum has lower range than yellow. So im using them in fog lights as dayrunninglights.

Tenere has both H7 bulbs.

So send a link of a recommended lamp for the dip and Hi

http://m.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sop=...r+white+h7+55w
But look at your google search for Narva range power white h7 55w.
Narva is a german brand. Ebay shows only chinese sellers for me but i do not know why. I bought them from my local carparts store.

Other bulb I used was Osram cool blue on my old Xt600. It was not very white but it was good for me.

I've fitted a this H7 LED as low beam, but it won't fit the high beam because of the special twist lock socket on that one.

http://www.tenere.dk/forumnew/upload...front_lamp.png

Led bulbs are not legal here if no markings on the headlight and I do not know how good they are vs halogens at light output on the road.
But heres some pictures of Narva range power white on my car:
Look how much whiter narva is vs cheap Ebay bulb that said "Super bright xenon" on the box..I have used those bulbs for two years and still work :)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...206_154509.jpg
And more pics:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...206_154518.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...206_154530.jpg


But again... I do not advise using them in low beam cause they are not that good at night... more for "show" or day driving.
Theres not much you can do with halogens... more white=less light on the road. Maybe Osram Cool BLue but it will be more yellowish than your leds.

Same here - the headlight is aprroved for H7 halogen - anything else is illegal- In theory the same goes for the parking light.

There is one thing you can do with halogen - more power = more light

Osram (64217) also makes a 65W H7 that produces 2100 lumen against the standard 1400 lumen - I've fitted that in the long beam.

That is also in the illegal category since it produces to much light for the standard ....