Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

In order to try and save battery life and to be better seen on the road, the goal was to replace what bulbs I could with LED ones. With the exception of the headlight, which I found a crystal white bulb for

Putting an 1157 LED bulbs for the brake light works fine, and that's about it. I picked up 2 pairs of white LED 194 bulbs for all 4 turn signal bulbs, and I had no luck. The LEDs themselves, replacing the bulbs, don't have enough resistance that the relay to make them flash is expecting. The LEDs come on but don't flash. I even tried some wiring and put regular bulbs in-line on the power wire before the LED, to simulate the resistance, and still no dice. Despite the simplicity of the turn signal system, it's still very finicky.

I did however get the LED bulbs I got for the extra fog lights I installed to work. Which is probably for the best cause those would've sucked the juice back consideralby. To compare, I use a special bulb in the small fog lights I got called MR11. Off the shelf at a hardware store, they come in 35W, 10W or 5W each. Combined the LED MR11's draw 1W.

The only other bulb I was able to replace and have work with any luck was I got a blue LED 194 bulb to light up the gauge cluster. I think these bulbs work only as direct illumination, not meant for flashing.

So to add to the visibility of my bike, especially at night, I picked up an amber and a red 'tire fly'. Those lights that screw onto the tire valves on your rims. Around my neck of the woods, they're technically legal cause I got 'proper' coloured ones.

make sure u run a resister from wire to LED for blinkers...LEDs arnt meant for direct power, u gotta use a resistor or u will overheat and destroy them.

i had green tireflys when i had my green neon, then those tubes busted and now i have red neon so i got rid of the tireflys, theyre super easy to sheist from wal mart

A friend of mine believes he can modify the relay somehow to be functional with LED's. But that'll be a project for another day

You need to replace the flasher unit for one compatible with LED lights. If you run a resistor, you're still wasting current, just in heat instead of light.

i had thos tirefly things on my ped but when i hit the brakes and the shocks went down i heared a clicking noise and then it went away and i noticed i wasent glowin no more. they broke off

i had some on my spree and they work fine

i gues urs just sucked.

lets see some pictures!!

Farfignugin wrote:make sure u run a resister from wire to LED for blinkers...LEDs arnt meant for direct power, u gotta use a resistor or u will overheat and destroy them.

The resister defeats the purpose of the LEDs, to save power. Get an electronic flasher, problem solved.

I always referred to them as TAR-FLYS....

This way will work ....but save no power


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LED-Turn ... 0599143632

This is a little more expensive......but this is what you need.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-LED- ... 1811wt_986

i ran LED's into my front reflector on my spree so they go along with the turn signals. i just ran them parallel with the stock bulbs.

killerpancake wrote:i ran LED's into my front reflector on my spree so they go along with the turn signals. i just ran them parallel with the stock bulbs.

Yes that would work.

But if you take the bulb out of that circuit, it would not.

i know, im just throwing in my 2 cents.