LED Lighting?

[qwertydude]

Just watch out. These scooter's electrical systems are made to consume a certain amount of wattage. Switching to all led's without a balancing increase in load, which people usually switch to a higher wattage headlight do, can sometimes result in a burned out regulator.

The regulators work to dump excess power to ground, if the power isn't used by the running lights it gets shorted to ground, this will heat up the regulator and can cause it to burn out.

It often happens to people who burn out a headlight and keep riding it, not realizing the headlight is out then after a while realizing the battery isn't charging, replace the battery, then kill it, then finally diagnose the regulator burned out.

[blueboy5000]

Originally Posted by qwertydude

Just watch out. These scooter's electrical systems are made to consume a certain amount of wattage. Switching to all led's without a balancing increase in load, which people usually switch to a higher wattage headlight do, can sometimes result in a burned out regulator.

The regulators work to dump excess power to ground, if the power isn't used by the running lights it gets shorted to ground, this will heat up the regulator and can cause it to burn out.

It often happens to people who burn out a headlight and keep riding it, not realizing the headlight is out then after a while realizing the battery isn't charging, replace the battery, then kill it, then finally diagnose the regulator burned out.

Yes this is true. But most leds use very little current. If you swap your incandescent bulbs with LEDS you should have no problems as they will almost certainly be less current.

But be wary of adding ANY additional lights if you intend to keep your stock lights. These bikes really don't like additional draw, and can easily smoke VRRs