Blown bulbs :-(

[Kris]

Not a happy bunny recently

This is the second night in a row I've had to ride home with no lights at the back of the bike. The brake lights work but the part of the bulb for the rear tail-light keeps blowing. Any ideas anyone, as I've replaced the bulbs a few times now and I'm beginning to get pissed off......

My neighbour reckons its a dodgy earth, as one of the battery terminals has lost its rubber cover and furred up. I just smiled and nodded cos I know F*all about this sorta thing.

Please help as I will die soon

Laters

[carl]

hi mate

im haveing the exact same problem, i have a mito, if the bulb keeps blowing it could be the regulator, this keps controll of the voltage, measure the voltage bye conecting one lead of a multimeter to earth and the other two one of the conections on the rear light, you will only get a reading from one so youl have to try both, when you find the one that gives the reading rev the bike, warm it up then rev it to the redline the meter should read around 14v if it goes up to about 17v check the conections on the regulator this will be a unit with heat sink funs on top with about 4 wires coming from the plug, if all conections are fine (no rust) it could be knackard, also check that the nuts holding the rear light unit to the frame are not to tight on the rubber bushes, this will cause vibration, if the bulb vibrates allot slacken the nuts of a little and try again,
if the bulb blows at night away from home, turn it around this will cause the brake light to be on all the time, mine has blown before about 10mile away from homem, while twating it down the A1,
let me no how you get on, or if you sort it out, because then i could sort mine out, ive only just slackened the nuts of to stop the vibration, so i dont no if that has helped atall, and im not going out on it because its fucking freezing and pissing down with rain

my email is carl@woodman83.fsnet.co.uk

[craigT19]

its propabbly a short somwhere in the electrical system.

after i fitted my allarm i got that problem of double earthing its easily sorted once you find the fault
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[Kickstart]

Hi

First check if you keep blowing bulbs is the condition of the battery. If the battery is knackered it will allow voltage spikes which can blow bulbs. Also check the light is mounted OK. On the FZ it got to the stage that it was costing almost as much in bulbs as petrol. Turned out that the bulb holder in the rear light had worn and vibrated, blowing the bulbs. So you took it out to change the bulb and wore it slightly more in the process!

All the best

Keith

[retrofly]

Hi
seeing as your talking about bulbs, the one ive got for my imported NSR R 2000 modle, is crap (this is the front by the way). And i was wondering which one i should get to replace it. at the moment its not bright at all even on Full beam. Thanks

soz for hikacking your thread Kris

Luke
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[crash]

get a higher watt bulb, i have 45/40 , there a lot better

[Dylan]

And while your at it take out the sidlight bulbs and paint them with green water based pernament glass paint. Looks like neons, and when you put it on main beam the green doesnt show. can buy the paint from an artist shop. Ill post some pics up soon.
Dyl