They do indeed lower the requirement for the eletrickery amounts. By how much? The boffins will be able to quantify I'm sure.
On a slightly different note. My bike was very lazy to start the other day, I connected a tester across the battery and there's very little increase in voltage when increasing the rpm. I suspect the stator is fk'd Will check into it.
I suppose the fitment of HID's and LED's besides the advantage of better lighting, also give the advantage of reducing demand on the notoriously unreliable charging circuit
They do indeed lower the requirement for the eletrickery amounts. By how much? The boffins will be able to quantify I'm sure.
I read an article that suggests reducing the load on the charging system is actually worse for it.
Our R/R units are the SHUNT type so they dump excess to ground without unloading the stator.
The less load you have - the more the r/r needs to dump.
Now - if you swap to a SERIES R/R - they do stop charging and unload the stator when required so lower demand is better for the stator.
Typical example is the SH775 r/r that people have started trying in place of the famous FH020AA that many upgraded to.
dont really understand that - does it explain why Bird charging systems regularly let go?
The HIDs charge their ballasts with ignition on. You then press the starter which cuts the power and then re-applies it. That's not good for the HIDs. Also I've found that the ballast charging takes a chunk of the power and my clocks go funny after the engine starts.
I fitted an old right hand switch gear and only turn the HID on when the engine is running. I then get no clock issues.
In fact I forgot to do that date and my tacho stayed at 0. HID switch off, ignition off, ignition on, engine running, HID on and all good again.
In case some are puzzled, the earlier birds had a lights on off switch where as the later ones did not
The practice of switching HIDS on only after firing up the motor is a good one - I only started doing this when I realised that the HID did not fire up 100% of the time if left permanently 'on'.