Butterthebean
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I installed a pair of LED headlight bulbs today. LASFIT H7 3800 lumens (per bulb) from Amazon for $34.99. Here's a link. Installation was super easy. Just pull the silver retainment ring off the LED bulb and put it into place within the headlight bezel. Secure it with the retaining clip that's already there. Slide in the LED bulb and plug it in. Instantaneous super bright headlights.
I played around a little with the orientation of the bulbs.... LED chips facing side to side vs LED chips facing up and down. I like the side to side better. Both give about the same amount of light down the road on both high and low beam. But the side to side give a huge wide pattern of light across the road. More than covering from curb to curb. With the chips facing up and down, it was more of a circular pattern right in front of the bike that was wide enough, but not near as wide as the side to side. Seeing as both alignments gave the same amount of light down stream, I went with the side to side. I took a couple pics showing what each orientation looks like on both high and low on the street. My camera couldn't even take a wide enough pic to capture the width of the pattern with the side to side orientation. To give an even better demonstration, I took the same pics in front of the garage door. It really shows how different the pattern is.
One other big difference you can really see up against the garage door is the very sharp cutoff at the top of the light pattern with the bulb oriented side to side. The up and down orientation is less abrupt, but I think that's a good thing to prevent blinding on coming traffic (which is common amongst vehicles that have had LED's put in that weren't meant to have them.)
I played around a little with the orientation of the bulbs.... LED chips facing side to side vs LED chips facing up and down. I like the side to side better. Both give about the same amount of light down the road on both high and low beam. But the side to side give a huge wide pattern of light across the road. More than covering from curb to curb. With the chips facing up and down, it was more of a circular pattern right in front of the bike that was wide enough, but not near as wide as the side to side. Seeing as both alignments gave the same amount of light down stream, I went with the side to side. I took a couple pics showing what each orientation looks like on both high and low on the street. My camera couldn't even take a wide enough pic to capture the width of the pattern with the side to side orientation. To give an even better demonstration, I took the same pics in front of the garage door. It really shows how different the pattern is.
One other big difference you can really see up against the garage door is the very sharp cutoff at the top of the light pattern with the bulb oriented side to side. The up and down orientation is less abrupt, but I think that's a good thing to prevent blinding on coming traffic (which is common amongst vehicles that have had LED's put in that weren't meant to have them.)