Originally Posted by DCCommuter
To be road-legal, I want to put a red LED taillight on my bike, tied into my 12V system. I'd like to use something that is comparable in brightness to an automobile taillight (I consider myself a vehicle). I'm considering something like the model 1284R from
www.LED-R-US.com. There's lots of sites that sell LED lights, but I haven't been able to find one that talks about power consumption or brightness ratings. Anyone have any experience with this one or other ones?
Thanks.
I have used the PT-R56 and ST-R61 from
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...?product=TRUCK. They draw about 30 ma. in tail light mode and about 350 ma. in stop light mode. They are very bright on axis and adequately bright off-axis. See msg. #714
http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.p...&postcount=714 to see the PT-R56 installed on my bike. The LED tail light units use a standard pigtail connector.
In my next version instead of a tail light unit I will use three red Luxeon Stars with optics that provide a more suitable beam pattern.