Has anyone tried a brighter bulb in their 650? I have an allnighter coming up and would like to upgrade the Original headlight bulb. I haven't checked yet, but presume it will be a 60/55W bulb.

The bike has no extra lights or electrical fittings apart from the OE. I did consider fitting an additional tail light to the rear of the sissy bar backrest to give a bit higher view of the tail/brake lights. The original light is okay, but I thought a bit brighter beam wouldn't go astray. Have thought about extra driving lights, but dont want to go over loading the electrics.

Years ago, we would fit a 90/80W bulb without any problems.

Somewhere on here there is a very good piece about the electrical output from a XVS 650 and what extra lights use.

As I recall there was very little spare output for running extra/more powerful lights.

I thought I had saved it but can't find it now.

Not really much help.

http://www.norbsa02.freeuk.com/goffybulbs.htm

this may be of some help

I just had a quick look on another website and there's a fella on there who's wired up an LED ring to his headlight, don't know if it'd interest you but http://forums.delphi...+Reading+%3E%3E (not sure the link will take you to the article as the links are weird but its thread 93407) You can also search headlight to get some articles...

This may also be worth looking at? http://650ccnd.com/ht.htm

Iv got a front lighting bar on my XVS1100 with two 55w lights fitted to it, so Im running 3 55w bulbs and get no trouble what so ever, all three including the tail light are switched on all the time I'm riding it. I'm guessing the 1100 electrics are going to be the same as the 650, so I cant see why you couldn't fit an extra back light, after all, it would only draw 6watts when on, and 27 watts total, when you brake.

Thanks for the info, Dickwad.

I don't know if it makes that much of a difference but I have an XVS 125, not a 650.