LED headlight upgrade on a 150cc GY6 Chinese scooter

[@hershelshochter4703]

for future readers and viewers, those white/yellow wires coming from the gy6 139/152/157 stator are unregulated AC and require bulbs to dampen voltage and current. without bulbs AC voltage will go out of control and everything will burn out, so you need a resistor and choke to clamp that down. don't ask me how i know.

[@tamarindodogs]

Offroad lights typically dazzle oncoming traffic. Consider a driving light with the proper beam pattern and cutoff.

[@Gogetter0118]

Unfortunately even factory lights have gotten ridiculously bright. If you're stuck with an old car these are actually a good way to fight back through the other drivers LED lights. I have one on the back of my truck I'll turn on if someone's following me with their brights on 😆

[@Void_777]

You can use steel wool to remove that surface rust from chrome surfaces, it works really well.

[@tenders]

“Past tense…probably too late at this point.” “You have to spread it apart, to get it on.”

[@stevecaldwell8576]

great job on the light upgrade , i needed that

[@Gogetter0118]

Your highbeam light I use on my scooter same way. OEM bulb on replaceable in fixture only high beam worked, so I pointed it down and added the little light works well, love when cars flash their brights at me and I switch to the LED then they didn't mind the fluorescent too much . What you use as the low beam I use on my truck for work, works well to see more than 180° on each side or to blind other drivers who can't seem to turn off their brights I see you did not use a resistor on the scooter nor did I 👍🏽. Good video bro I'm gonna have to go back and watch some of that in detail to understand the wiring to help me set up my Yamaha Zuma bugeye turn signal LEDs

[@LabCoatPaul]

Thanks for watching! Good luck with the Zuma.

[@welcome2myworld1.o89]

Beautiful video as always! That's actually pretty wicked I like the look

[@EbonyPope]

The scooter is back!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@bryansutherly1]

To feed power to the switch

[@NewSpirits]

You could put that unused 12 volts ac into a voltage regulator and power a usb charging outlet for charging phones and other accessories without and extra drain on the battery, WOW 😳

[@LabCoatPaul]

Not true. The 8-pole stator puts out very little current. It doesn't matter if you take it from the A/C or the D/C wires, you're still limited to about 3 amps total for the charging system. I recommend upgrading to an 11 pole stator if you want to install additional accessories.

[@draizwrm]

About this time last year, I bought a new LED headlight bulb from Amazon, it's much brighter than my original headlight , I paid more and got only one bulb, it is wired correctly, I think you could have gotten a better lamp if you wanted too , you deliverably picked the cheapest selection , I suspect you did this as a "lesson by example" so viewers would not make this mistake

[@LabCoatPaul]

This one was a weird bulb size, so I didn't have any good quality options on Amazon.

[@nesertema4583]

functional, but I would probably keep the original lamp housing and modify it to accept an LED-panel or something...

[@cav3man360]

I just been wondering what would be a good replacement for a headlight

[@1ute]

This channel is golden lmao

[@jimanonymous113]

Re: broken plastic screw receiving holes. I wonder if bondo would stick and could be appropriately drilled to receive screws ?

[@LabCoatPaul]

Bondo is designed to work with metal. Epoxy would work better with plastic, but the body fairings on Chinese scooters get brittle after a few years, so I just tape mine back together.

[@torevenheim9607]

Iamm glad if my headlight become better than the original candle light, it's no halogen on my scooter

[@jerryrig1803]

If the brown wire is ac current, can you just eliminate it all together to just run off the switched DC power from the black wire? Or why did you connect it with the black and white wires?

[@roymichaeldeanable]

Best idea for you is just to ride during daylight

[@roymichaeldeanable]

Looks good enough to me Its dark innit

[@DivergentDroid]

I know you saw my video review on the Nilight Nixmen for the Ba20d style bulb. I wonder if it helped you choose the Nilight brand for this project. I agree, the model you used is horrible for brightness and the difference between the high and low beams. As you see from my video I had a much different experience where my Nilight Nixmen worked awesome for both brightness and difference between high/low. My one LED cost 25 dollars. Your 2 for 16 seems really cheap. I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the brand.. perhaps you got a knock off? It seems strange you and I had such different experiences. I see your individual High and Low LED's are still Nilight brand and work well. Perhaps it's just that that particular model was off, not designed correctly?

[@LabCoatPaul]

I should have ordered the same light you got. When I did a search for the P15D bulb, all I found was that junky one. Nilight is a pretty good brand. I bought some Nilight off road lights a few years ago, and they worked ok and didn't break, so that's why I got their off road lights again. Perhaps if I searched a bit more, I could have found an LED bulb that works well.

[@DivergentDroid]

@@LabCoatPaul I'm thinking even if you got the bulb I got it wouldn't fit your P15D socket. I know you had to find one that's claimed to match the socket/bulb style you have as I did for the Ba20d style my scooter came with. The error is clearly not your fault. I think they just really messed up on the P15D bulb. Perhaps it's a leftover from the earlier attempts at designing an LED bulb.

[@jeffkrauss5582]

I want to add an ac to dc converter at the light switch so all my lights can be dc .so if i hooked acdc converter to the brown wire on the light control that should put evrything to dc from control right?

[@LabCoatPaul]

You don't need an AC to DC converter (also called a rectifier). The voltage regulator already has a rectifier built in, and you just need to connect to the wire that already has DC power. (just like I did in the video) The 8 - pole stator doesn't put out much current, and adding a rectifier to the A/C wires won't give you more total power. If you want more power, upgrade to an 11-pole stator.

[@jeffkrauss5582]

@@LabCoatPaul could I connect the blk wire to the brown wire that leads to the light switch to make all lights dc ie turn headlights and brake?

[@1PvP]

Hi Paul, love your videos, however I think that your videos arent being promoted as much anymore, as I never see them in my recommended when you upload. Anyway, would you consider putting a nudge,bullbar on your rav4? Thanks.

[@LabCoatPaul]

I guess youtube isn't doing me any favors. If you hit the notification bell next to the subscribe button, it will tell you any time I have a new video. I haven't gotten to installing any accessories yet because I'm still working through all the repairs the RAV4 needs. At some point, a bull bar or a bumper would be cool, as well as a skid plate and rock sliders.

[@1PvP]

@@LabCoatPaul Fair enough. Im trying to get myself a convertable one, but there so rare here in New Zealand.

[@jackjuliano3622]

Paul, what’s next for the rav 4? Once again great video 👍

[@LabCoatPaul]

Thanks for watching! I might work on the radio a bit.

[@madblunted]

Won’t the led have a low lifespan without a regulated power supply?

[@LabCoatPaul]

The LED lights have a built - in voltage regulator, so theoretically they will last a very long time.

[@cityofjoy2576]

Those Chinese LED bulbs. Are not the high intensity ones. You probably spent $10 on . Buy one for $30 and then show how bright it looks

[@Fjord_Driver]

I can say 100% that the low beams on the 2013 Kymco Super 8 are total crap.

[@dw4940]

You should upgrade to hid. They make 35watt. Superior compared to led. Led SUCK.. all china companies lie about watts and lumens and probably other stuff as well.

[@LabCoatPaul]

I had some pretty good Chinese HID's a few years ago. They burned out, because China.

[@sergeysergeev8647]

Скутер потерял ретро стиль

[@pccp5530]

feed them to african children ... 😳did u just said this like it was normal?

[@LabCoatPaul]

Unfortunately, it is normal. Electronic waste is shipped to Africa, where children disassemble electronics to recycle metals, then burn the rest. Here's an article about it: news.mongabay.com/2011/09/children-on-the-frontlines-the-e-waste-epidemic-in-africa/

[@harryspankers]

Why don't buy a quality Honda scooter instead of this crap before spending time and money?

[@miketyson1717]

You can't get a Honda before spending the money, you need to spend it up front for a Japanese scooter