I prefer LED's myself. Super low power consumption. You can get them DIRECT from China (coincidentally where pretty much ALL of LED's are manufactured), from Ebay pretty darn cheaply. There are LED's that can temporarily blind a human that looks directly into them. That said, you must be carefull with placement of the aforementioned. But if you look into it, LED's are taking over from conventional filament type bulbs., which consume alot more power than LED's. LED's are impervious to vibration. I have taken an ABS (tough plastic) strip and made troughs lengthwise with a table saw to accomodate wiring, and placed a few blue LED's through it and placed it both of the frame uprights facing forward to accentuate the engine. They also give a more visible appearance. These LED's are pretty bright, 5,000 MCD's. One MCD = the light of one candle. I do not worry one iota about my battery and LED's. I will place more in time. Soon my brake light will be LED's, and I will put LED's as my 'forward' lights to add to the stock headlight.
My 2 cents worth.
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2006 Yamaha XVS650
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