LED or Light Emitting Diode is becoming prevalent in lighting technology, where it has replaced incandescent bulbs in lighting the homes. Now, LED also contributed significantly to the automotive industry like the motorcycle. LED has been used in tail lights like brake light, running light, and license plate light. Because of LED's tremendous improvement in lighting technology, it will become the trend in the homes, and automotive lighting. This article will be discussing LED's significant contributions to the motorcycle lights as well as its advantages. This will also give some examples of LED based products for the motorcycle. This article will also enumerate and describe the process of installing LED tail lights.

Why LED?

As much as LED has contributed to the interior lightings of the home, LED also plays a significant role in the motorcycle lighting and it is much preferred by most motorist and automotive companies alike. LED outperforms the incandescent bulb in terms of quality and performance. Compared to the incandescent bulbs which may last for only several hours, LED's life is approximately 100,000 hours or 6,000,000 miles of riding at 60 MPH. This is quite astounding! Aside from that, LED is brighter, redder, and has better viewing angle than its counterpart. This means that motorist can see your motorcycle LED light more visibly and brightly. Furthermore, LED does not emit heat as its by product. LED is also low-voltage, that is to say, it consumes less power from the motorcycle's battery than the incandescent bulb.

Since LED performs better than its counterpart, motorists often replace their motorcycle's tail lights with LED. Here are some important points why LED is a better alternative.

LED for Brake, Turn Signal, and Running Lights

Communication among motorists is done mostly through their motorcycle's tail lights. They communicate through the light signals from their tail lights such as Brake light and turn signal light. Or, in most cases, they communicate through blowing horns. As such, tail lights should be 100 percent visible. Old model motorcycles? brake lights don't have enough visibility to communicate with other motorists and may result to an accident. They may replace their incandescent bulbs too frequently or they can use LED.

LED Brake lights are brighter, redder and have the best viewing angle. Holding the break will brightly flare up the LED brake light to signal the motorist from behind to reduce speed. Replacing old incandescent bulbs certainly is a step for safety.

The intersection is one of the most dangerous sites for a motorist. Aside from vehicles turning from side to side, some of these vehicles don't turn their signal lights on to communicate to other motorists which side they will be turning to. This can result in a crash between vehicles or motorcycles. As such a visible signal light is very important.

The same precaution is applied to the Running lights. This should also be functional and visible.

Tips on Installing LED for Tail Lights

Since tail lights are very important, it is necessary to have know-how on how to install them. (Nonetheless, motorcycle accessory sellers install these for their customers). Here are a few tips on how to install LED for Tail Light:

For a standard motorcycle you would use a screw driver to remove the two Philipp Head screws that attach the stock tail light lens. Handle the lens properly and secure it by putting it on a safe place. Also on most standard motorcycles, there are three wires which are connected to the lights: a brown (ground), red/green (for the running light) and white/blue (for the brake light).

From there, you cut the three wires. Then slide each wire to Posi-Lock cap. Screw the cap into the Posi-Lock barrel. That's as simple as that. This could vary depending on the make and model of your bike, and if you are not comfortable with 12 volt wiring, it is always best to seek a professional to handle this type of installation.