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Originally Posted by aesmith
With normal incandescent bulbs the current increases with voltage. So a nominal 60W bulb may draw 5A at 12V making it's power 60W, but if you feed it say 14V then it will draw more current maybe not in a linear way. See the first example in that test a 60W bulb drew 5.4A at 13.5V.
Regarding cheap LED bulbs some people seem to find them OK, I found them rubbish. Although the light looked bright it gave very poor actual vision, a sort of watery light is the best way I can think to describe it. Presumably that's poor light distribution. I also found with mine that the difference between dip and main was too great, so to get a decent dip beam the main beam was too high. In the end I went for super expensive from Horizon LEDs, mainly because of a 40% off special offer.
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I just looked at the link someone posted below for LED kits costing £140. It just would not be worth considering that for my K6 as I only paid £600 for the bike. It really would not be worth spending a quarter of the purchase price to get some slightly better headlights when the original fitment works exactly as well as the manufacturer intended 13 years ago.
I’m happy to experiment with cheap upgrades if they give a worthwhile improvements for the cost or they cost less than OEM parts that need changing (LED indicators and wavy discs come to mind). So, I think I’ll stick with the original type halogen bulbs for the time being, if I get bored I may experiment with the cheap Chinese ones, we’ll see.
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