LED's vs. regular bulbs I was thinking

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationOr is this CF-12-ANL-R just a round version of the CF-12-ANL?

I guess the bigger question for me is how do I know I'm getting the right kind of flasher relay? Does it need to specifically say "no load" or "solid state"? OR will any flasher that says it works with LED lights do the job without adding back all the resistance I'm eliminating with the incandescants?

It MUST say NO LOAD. I have tried all kinds of flashers and that is the ONLY one I got to work without installing load resistors. I have been experimenting with this for about 3 years now. If you want to take the time to do your own experiments, have at it. But expect to spend some money to test all of the units. If you don't want to take the recommendation than don't bother with asking the question. CF12ANL is the ONLY one I got to work plug-n-play. The flasher mount is rubber and the square housing fits just fine in it. That is how mine is mounted.

Ok, thanks Otto. Just looking for some education from those who've been down this road already.

There are some that come out of China today that are standard relay flashers with built in resistors. They are junk. You want a solid state, clock timed flasher to get the full benefits. I have been down this road as I mentioned and wasted a lot of money and time in the process.

Otto..looking at the superbright web sight, they have a special bulb for the tail/brake/plate, that luminates white on the top & bottom, & red in the middle,...so your plate could be above, or below the taillight & you'd have a white light on your plate & red on the tail.

what bike did the cluster come off of?

otakar wrote: I had to make a bracket and NOTHING plugged in. The light bar is custom made so it had to be wired in. The only thing that plugged in was the fuel gauge. I went from a mechanical tach drive to an electronic tach, so that had to be wired in and so on.

The housing is a modified ZN1100 housing the individual instruments are from different bikes and I do not remember which. The fuel gauge is from a Spectra.

pete greek1 wrote: Otto..looking at the superbright web sight, they have a special bulb for the tail/brake/plate, that luminates white on the top & bottom, & red in the middle,...so your plate could be above, or below the taillight & you'd have a white light on your plate & red on the tail.

Just stay with white. I have some super hi output white bulbs that I use in my turn signals and they work great and look good.

otakar wrote: I have some super hi output white bulbs that I use in my turn signals and they work great and look good.

can you post the manufacturers info?

Are they brighter than these ones?

www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/in...115x-xLX3.htm#photos

A picture is worth a thousand words. All I did was that I painted the black plastic on the inside with silver paint. There was no reflector inside these housings.









This is what most other LEDs look like. Those are the ones I used to have in there.

Hard to tell from picture. All I know is the 3W Luxeons at superbrightleds.com are so bright I almost blinded myself when I tripped the brake level while the colored lense was removed. You REALLY don't want to look at them with your eyes.

The question is how well do they defuse. By law you can't have them too bright but they should be well defused threw the refractory lens.