LED accent lighting

[xgrafcorex]

I like a "less is more" approach to accent lighting.

I agree. Subtlety if your friend in this situation. It's probably easy to over do it, so either use the LEDs sparingly or avoid them all together.

 

[pester]

I used white ones on mine. I don't turn them on too much. I thought that it would be good in a practical sense. If you had a mechanical problem at night you can turn them on and have a better chance of seeing what is wrong. They do look good when they are on. Have to try and post a pic next time.

I wanna do blue on mine

 

[RideFz6Style]

I wanna do blue on mine

I did a 6 piece blue LED light kit on my bike and I love it! I think they look great. Just be sure to check local laws on riding with them on because blue is the only color that is illegal here. Ooops :spank:

 

[pester]

Thing is i cant find the texas law regarding accent light

 

[bthames2000]

Just as a general rule, follow the light patterns of your car. No flashing unless it's for signaling or emergency purposes. Red and amber in the rear, amber and white in the front. No white light emitting from the rear is a law in almost every state. I'd also say that most cops won't waste their time. I say that as a cop. However, there's always that one guy.

 

[chunkygoat]

I am, and have been for years now, ob-friggen-sessed with LED lighting, LED accent lighting, RGB accent lighting, and any control hardware and software I can get my hands on (or make!) With that said, I feel I have an unbiased opinion towards the subject, because not only do I have LEDs on my fizz, but I have them behind me tv, xbox, computer, under my work bench, in my car: literally everywhere.

I threw some pictures and videos onto this post to show some of the RGB projects I've made. Almost all are custom, some more than others. With the "recent" creation of the LED strips with arrays of diodes in parallel - my emphasis has shifted from the load, to the driver, to where I am presently investing most of my time and research: control.

There are many great drivers out there, with many great loads - but control software and hardware seems few and far between. I have adapted a number of different configurations as well as come up with a number of my own.

All pictures and videos were setups created by myself, bodged from available parts and made from scratch, fully interoperable with any windows 7 system to control from. I should also stress these are only my more successful setups hehe.

Home RGB Accent Lighting:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WanadAK3_Y]RGB Addressable Script Able Home Accent Lighting - YouTube[/ame]
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuuIlOYvyHk]Arduino - RGB - PWM - 8bit - Shift Registers - YouTube[/ame]




[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN9S-1lbnKM]Automated Hue Shift - 1amp 24vdc RGB - YouTube[/ame]
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Bike LED Kit
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If anybody has any questions or wants to get involved in some RGB projects, I am in constant demand for electrical engineers, embedded engineers, and PCB designers to help develop these projects! I am am currently involved in a number of LED projects and would love to share my knowledge and experience as well as learn from others' experience

(ps this is my kind of thread!)

 

[Marcin]

I do like LEDs as long as placed in a wise way. As for now I did my fender eliminator and decided to make the FZ6 sign a little more visible.

I'll be thinking of making windscreen Yamaha logo backlit with some white LED.

 

[scidork]

It might be neat if you, or someone else, did something like this where the glass (maybe plastic would work but I'm not too good with optics) is etched so that when light travels through the glass like a fiber optic fiber, it defracts. This effectively illuminates the design etched and makes it look to be self illuminating.

more examples here

 

[Marcin]

There might be a small issue with this idea, which is great. The logo is small in size and there won't be enough space to make it this way.

 

[scidork]

That's just a really large example (the first I came to since I wasn't confident that I could accurately describing). Usually I've seen them as desk trinkets not much more than 2 inches wide and tall. I think the larger problem would be finding out if the windscreen material itself would diffract too much or would highlight every bug splat and scratch.

 

[justaguy]

Who cares.....do what ever makes the daddy parts stiff, its your moto and you are the on e riding it.

 

[Motogiro]

As long as it is safe and brings positive attention to you, it's a good thing.
It's pretty much common knowledge that you are likely to get negative attention from LEOs with blue lighting for obvious reasons.

 

[raja777m]

Accent lights increase visibility.
Please visit the blog in my signature for a few pics.

And I prefer OPT7 kit underglow kit from eBay. I'm very much satisfied with their customer service and a business day response.

I personally like it and I always use cool white or warm white on my Raven.

 

[52pickup]

I had an uncle who loved LEDs. He's Boston born and raised and no sissy. But he had a huge ride... and it seemed to fit.

 

[Motogiro]

I had an uncle who loved LEDs. He's Boston born and raised and no sissy. But he had a huge ride... and it seemed to fit.

Lol!......I'm still trying to figure out why you're uncle might be considered a sissy cuz he liked LEDs?

Sent from Moto's Motorola

 

[thisisdylan]

are there LED brake lights without integrated blinkers? i have that ebay fender elim on the way, and i'd rather use those LED blinkers down by the plate.

 

[agf]

I believe hyper-lites will meet your expectations for an add ons and there are led tail lights w/out blinkers:

Smoked LED tail light Yamaha FZ6/FZ-6 Fazer RJ07/RJ14 and S2 | eBay

good luck

 

[thisisdylan]

^ hey thanks, that one looks really nice. if i can't find a better / cheaper smoked one, i think i'll get it. and maybe add one of those brake flasher relays.

 

[agf]

https://youtu.be/xooNy_-QTR0

the last few seconds of this shows my brake lights and the flashing hyperlites