Anyone done an HID or projector lamp conversion on their SMS/TE 630? I commute at midnight and could use some better illumination. It's an all backroads commute in a really rural area with tons of deer.
I've put one of the $25 ebay kits in mine, took a little work to get it good though. As the high/low is operated by a solenoid on low (unpowered) the bulb flops (for want of a better word) around. To remedy this i put shims in between the sleeve and sliding part - slivers of aluminium can. works brilliantly, bright as day. I'd recommend it if you are willing to fiddle around with it to get it nice. Of course the better solution would be to get a lynx with twin HID's (cash is a large barrier though)
Tried one, and like Max said, it was floppy on low beam, so I pulled it and put the Silverstar Ultra back in. Pulled it out and threw two 2000 lumen LED's' in the tank shrouds and tied them to the high beam with a relay. WORLDS better now, and I'm not blinding everybody on low beam. Husky's don't tend to have the best reflector designs...
Yeah, those sound like great ideas! Post up the details on those if you could. I like the HID/H1 setup. Sure it was tricky getting it installed no?
ADVMONSTER lights Bought them from a guy selling them under a different name, but they don't carry the 2000 lumen model anymore, just the 3600 lumen. 2000 is plenty and personally, anything brighter will destroy your night vision for a while from all the splash and glare.
how do you mount it up in there? is that easy to wire in? I am spoiled with electronics stuff that plugs into existing harness connectors...
I just tightened down the included mount and locktited the heck out of the pivot screw, then bolted it straight to the fairing using a large-washer body screw and spring nut that was left over from my 350Z under tray. You should know how a relay works before you go wiring anything, haha... I just tapped into the high beam relay for the signal to turn on the LED's relay, added an inline fuse block and put in a waterproof quick connector up at the neck so I could pull the tank easily.
no clue how a relay works. :P i do some amateur electronics stuff but no experience or knowledge of what/how a relay functions. comfortable with soldering or anything else though.
A relay is just a switch that is activated by a small current. That lets you have a dinky little starter button switch a relay, which in turn fires a solenoid (a big relay) which powers the starter motor. Here's you a simple diagram, but instead of the switch/indicator setup, you would just splice in a lead to the 12v+ hi-beam wire. The voltage across 85 and 86 energizes a coil and connects 30 to 87 when it is energized (normally open) and connects 30 to 87A when it's de-energized (normally closed). It's not rocket surgery, but you can fry some expensive stuff if you don't know what you're doing...
Zombie thread, but I just ordered one of these H4 LED's from ADVMonster, good reviews. I'll try it out and post here. Hopefully the beam pattern is better than the HID I tried. http://stores.advmonster.com/h4-r3-led-headlight/ http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/advmonster-led-headlight.976505/page-53
I have one of their H4 LED's in my 950 ADV and another one in a cheap chinese eBay headlight on one my enduro bikes. It's bright, but much like any of the H4 HID conversion's it spills/throws light all over the place. The high beam does change the beam pattern, but only barely. I don't mind it too much on the enduro bike that doesn't see much road use, but I really dislike it on the big katoom. Running the Morimoto Mini H1 gattling gun 7.0 w/ 4300K in my K75RT and that would be my choice. There was a guy on adv who retrofitted one to his 950 ADV as well, but went back to a standard bulb after having issues with it not holding up off road. http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/has-anyone-done-a-hid-conversion-bi-xenon.1044961/
Which gen LED did you use? The R2 had 4 LED's, two per side. The R3 has low on top and high on bottom. How it spills, i'm sure, has a lot to do with the bucket shape.
Pretty sure I used the R2. It's not a bad beam pattern, just don't think its as "clean" as the H1 projector conversion. It is still certainly an improvement and better than the H4 HID or stock.
Like I said on ADV, I have to wait for someone else to try it first. With the Canadian conversion and shipping it gets too pricy to be the Guinea pig! Appreciate others stepping forward though!
I went for a Trail tech race light. Modified it to fit a dual beam H4 xenon light. It was one of these 25$ eBay kits which didn't last very long. Currently using a cheap H4 40W LED bulb. It's stupidly bright and works so far. The beam pattern is not ideal though.
Trail Tech x2 hid on mine, its really good. Got it wired so the dipped stays on with main beam. I think it looks better than the standard headlight unit aswell.
I've been waiting almost patiently for your review on the light. Meanwhile I ended up ordering one of my own, seems like a decent piece of kit. Did you get yours installed? Cheers
I did, plenty of room back there for the heat sink and ballast, which I was a little concerned with. I already had the rubber boot opened up for the HID conversion I tried so no mods required for me. The bulb twists out of the adapter, so it will be easy to see what you need to do. I just zip-tied the heat sink flaps up to the top headlight mount to keep them from being pinched at the neck tube. A couple strategic zip-ties to keep the ballast in place and all is well. The beam pattern is much better than stock, I don't have any good pictures yet. The cutoff is fairly high, so I had to slide the headlight back and drop it almost to max to keep from blinding everyone, but the high beam is much more of a spot dead center than a regular H4, so it's got some throw. On a related note, I replaced the pinched rubber on the top headlight screw with a spring I had laying around. I've been running a SilverStar Ultra and this is head and shoulders above that.
