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Lighting

Author:
Dave C (Texas)

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Date Posted: 20:17:09 10/16/02 Wed

The stock A.C. magneto max output is 280 watts @5000 RPM. headlight is 60w hi-beam 55w low, tail/stop 8w/27w, turn lamps 27w x2= 54w and worse case all indicator dash lights leaving you with 124 watts. If your at a intersection stopped, your running off the battery. Worse case. 124 watts is 2x55 watt lights. With just the low beam and tail light you would have 217 watts available, this is only if the motor is running at 5G, in theory. I think that is about as fast as these things rev. So when you chose lighting keep in mind the rated wattage of the lights you chose. I know I ran my battery down running 60 MPH with 2x55w and 2x50w, low beam only. This set up came in just under the theoritical output. I had to push start after the fuel stop. LED are one watt per bulb as a rule of thumb.

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