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Re: LED headlight conversion

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Molly's 70 wrote: 05:11 am Dec 27 2025 Will this work?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335189466368?c ... A2QYAh8-yI
Molly's, it's pretty darn close and reveals something additional about the links provided by me.

The photo attached to this post is screen grab from the video provided by kdxazz (Darryl) above. His bulb is rated at 6500 Kelvins. The links provided by me are actually rated at 6000 Kelvins. The picture you shared is like one linked by me. It's rated at 6000 Kelvins.

"Kelvins (K) for LEDs measures color temperature, indicating if the light looks warm (yellow/red) or cool (blue), with lower numbers (e.g., 2700K-3000K) being cozy yellow, mid-range (4000K) being neutral, and higher numbers (5000K-6500K+) being crisp daylight."

Can you see the difference between 6000 K and 6500 K? Likely if the lights are side by side in the dark. Otherwise, they both provide the daylight light spectrum. Tgere's just a litte bit less blue in the 6000 K.
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Re: LED headlight conversion

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Darryl, have you done much night riding with this Osram LED yet? Particularly om an trails? Or in very dark road settings?
I'm curious how it's output does for trail riding, as I do have one OEM headlight still, and am looking at the 11W Rivco version which I'd linked earlier here, that is readily available in the USA (although uncertain if it is AC-capab;e, however, it looks identical externally to the Osram).

I smashed my UFO KDX headlight into a tree pretty badly (destroyed entirely), and have a modified 1980 KDX175 headlight on my 220, as well as an Acerbis Elba NOS/NLA green headlight which uses the same screwy oddball light bulb socket as the UFO, but I'll be buying a SpeedWolf USA H4 socket adapter for it in order to keep the retro 1980's/early 1990's Evo/SuperEvo aesthetic to the Elba headlight. I need something for my OEM headlight now. Thanks for your report on this, and your in-depth contributions.



Also, I've now seen that there is a THIRD designation for this OEM 1990-2006 KDX headlight lamp socket format,
P15D / H6M / T19 all are used interchangeably for this socket configuration.

https://rivcoproducts.com/shop/atv-utv/ ... lbs-white/

https://m4products.com/h6m-p15d-led-mot ... ht-single/
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