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LED or HID headlight lamps for 1990 240 200 1990

Hi Bikerider,

Thanks for the report of your new LED headlights, an interesting offering.
Your post tweaked me to look around at what's new to get a backup pair of LEDs for my Lasfit units. It's good to have spares.
The technology keeps improving and the price is trending down.

Your Torchbeam units are among the later generation of LEDs with
a 0,160" substrate that the chips are mounted. Supposedly a thinner substrate
means a better focussed beam. The high power Lasfit ($110.00) has an
80 mil/ 0.060" substrate for the chips. Woohoo! Unless they couple the
high price with a solid warranty it's so much smoke and mirrors.
I tried to find out details for the warranty of your Torchbeam and
you have so many weeks to return then it's 2 years manufacturers warranty.
I sent a letter to support@torchbeam.net asking them who pays shipping for dead LEDs,
and where do they need to be shipped. It's a very fuzzy warranty.
I also asked them what the current draw is on a single lamp in high and low beam mode. They rate each lamp at 30 watts which should be 2.14 amps
at your lamp fuse/s High and Low beams
You can take your VOM and measure the current for both high and low beams to
verify that they are 30 watt units. They probably have current limiting
and will settle in after 20 or 30 seconds to some value.
Check it out and see if you have 30 watt lamps.

See if it works OK without the Canbus adapter. The lasfit worked fine
in my 940 without a canbus adapter, and any need to modify the bulb out sensor.

I'll let you know what Torchbeam says, if anything, about the warranty.

There's no universal standard for Lumens output, so that's another fuzzy area.
Today I found a vendor hawking a 1,000,000 lumen LED set @ 5000 watts on Ebay.
I reported that vendor to Ebay as fraudulent.
You would need 180 amp fuses for each headlight! Bah Humbug!

Cheers, Bill






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