Hello. Ive recently bought a 748S and have had the misfortune of being caught out in the dark twice with it now. The standard headlights on it are pretty awful with me missing seeing a pothole on the dual carriageway last night and hitting it sending me into a wobble. Anyway nothing came of it thankfully with the bike righted itself. Was just wondering if anyone has any advice on upgrading the headlights to HID or LED? I have searched on this and other forums but a lot of the stuff seems like old info. I can't find anything online that I'm confident would work. If anyone has already done this and can pass on info on what's involved, make/ model of lights etc that would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Den
I've upgraded my monster to LED bulbs. It was pretty straight forward. I needed a h7 and a H1 bulb and they couldn't be longer than the standard halogen type bulbs. The bulbs with the highest lumen numbers all have fans built in and are often longer than standard. I ended up using Zethors bulbs available on Amazon which fitted my requirements. One of them, H1 I think, needed an adapter loom for grounding it but that was easily made. The dipped beam is much much better but doesn't appear to be blinding oncoming traffic. The main is probably visible from Space. Here's a link, perhaps it helps. Zethors H7 LED Headlight Bulb with Fan 100W 22000LM 6000K Xenon White Mini LED H7 Halogen Replacement，Pack of 2 https://amzn.eu/d/6V3BKCb Zethors H1 LED Headlight Bulb 24000LM 100W 6000K Xenon White Mini H1 Bulb Non-Polarity Plug and Play Wireless Car High/Low Beam Halogen Replacement H1 Headlight Canbus with Fan Waterproof IP68, 2PCS https://amzn.eu/d/592jEPO
Cheers mate. Im not very technically minded with this stuff but I think I read somewhere about LEDs need to be reflected outwards as a pose to projection? Not sure if that means there being a reflective headlight housing, mine doesn't have that so I'm not sure which would work best. I'll have a look at that link though. Thanks again.
