LED Highway lights Revisted and fixed

[Seaking]

A while back I was on about trying to get some form of 4.5" LED highway lights working on this bike, going through the fiasco of the rip off artists with their shyte bulbs, and finally on the Custom Dynamics. But no matter what was installed, horrible RF interference was heard through the bike's radio and audio system.. so much to make the sound system on the bike useless, thus making the LED lights unusable..

 

Well I'm happy to announce that I managed to sort it out and got the LED highway lights on the bike and without any radio interference at all.. (I don't use CB personally so can't say how it works on that, sorry)

 

I was chatting with the nice people at http://www.customled.com about some other project and then posed the question to them if they could come up with a solution or if they made their own.. Though they said they might not be able to build another new light like this, they did come up with a probably fix to try out and wouldn't you know it.. it works! And simple.. I should have thought of it before.. but didn't.. grr

 

Simple aluminum foil wrapped around the back of the light itself! that's all.. I thought it couldn't be THAT simple.. so I grabbed a couple sheets of aluminum foil and tested it out myself.. wow.. no kidding.. took the bike out for a ride, scanned up and down the channels and not a buzz from the lights. I rode wit the lights off until I heard a weak channel and then turned them on, expecting them to down out the weak channel but nothing.. the channel didn't drown out in a hiss or buzz.. wow..

 

YAY.. Working LED highway lights!

 

Simple way to do it is to get two layers of a foil around the back of the light, and pinch it towards the front of the light (looks like a hershey kiss) so that you can mount it back into the light fixture. Obviously you'll have to make sure the electrical connectors aren't able to make contact with the metal or you'll have a short.. once the light is attached and done up, you can pull away at the a foil pinched out the front, trimming it with a knife of need be.. Simple as that.. However, to pretty it up I have some aluminum deck tape (used for aircraft firewall application) that should do the same job and make the mounting of the lights easier.. I just have a buckshee set up now for the testing.

 

But it works!

 

Now once I have the Moon Shinez signal lights to flash normally, bobs your uncle..

[Guest]

Ill have to give it a try. While I tried wrapping the whole light with heavy duty aluminum foil as a test I still had that slight static from the one radio station. Ill give this suggestion a try. It sure wont hurt. I have a set of those 4" foam radio speaker cones laying around. That may make a good insulator against elec grounding by the foil. I can just wrap the outside of the cones with the foil and mount it inside the housing.

[Seaking]

That is a thought..

 

What light do you have, the ones that look like the PAR36 lights or the custom dynamic specific ones?

[Guest]

I got the ones from GreenBoat.

[Seaking]

I got the ones from GreenBoat.

 

Oh, from them useless tits on a bull.. Dunno what you can do with those because the connectors are so huge on the back it might be more difficult to shield the lugs.. But that's the principle idea behind it..