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Look at maybee LED driving lights.. they make PIAA LED's that only draw like 3-4W but pack the punch of a 80W Halogen

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You're a second?


Edit - I think it was Love and Death with the joke about showing up with seconds...

are you making fun of my spelling ability?

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Quote from: RedShiftI added up all the stock lights that could be on (Headlight, Brakelight, Turn Signals, Dash & meter backlights) and I count 120.7 Watts.

120.7 looks a little low to me, high beam is 60w.  Also there are two each for the turn sig, brake and tail lights.

You might be right, but I think I'm just off by a taillight filament (7w).  You can have only one turn signal flashing at a time (21w) and that's what I used.  But I used a 60w high beam in my calcs, 21w for the Brake light, 5x3.4w for indicators, and a 1.7w high beam indicator.

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I don't know what the ignition system draws, but it's gotta be more than the 21 watt brakelight, right?  Maybe 30-40 watts?

I used 24w based on a 2 amp measurement.

Thanks John -- I figured someone knew.  So if I take this and add my 7w I missed, that gives me about 152w.  That leaves between 48-88w of spare power to recharge the battery and use for other purposes.

Roy...

Thanks for the input guys.  I'm going to wire them to the high beam switch to limit use.

I have two 35 watt lights running for low beams, a two watt LED tailight, no guages and the idiot lights are LED.  Ignition draws around 20 watts (based on how long my track bike runs at total loss on a 4 amp battery) so I am around 100 watts going down the highway.  I didn't calculate brake and turnsignal lights (although my brake light is LED, around 4 watts and the front turnsignals are LED) because they aren't on very often.  I can run a Gerbing heated jacket liner (77 watts) and Gerbing heated glove liner (22 watts) and arrive home with the battery above 12 volts. 

Even with a stock set up, there is enough capacity to run a heated vest, as I did for many a trip on my bone stock GS, without discharging the battery. 

However, if you are going to ride around town, idling and running lower down in the revs, you will probably have to switch off the gear.