LED instrument lights

[Admiral Beez]

The bulb on my GS650G?s fuel gauge has burnt out. Is that a difficult change out?

I was thinking of switching all my instrument lights to LEDs, if only for better brightness of the speedo and tach at night.

Are their LED bulb that fit?

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

I replaced all my cluster lights with these.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TML5LLH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

not difficult. Just have to remove a lot of stuff first.

 

[Grimly]

I changed all my instrument lights to LEDs a few years ago. A word of advice - don't buy the cheap ones.
Depending on access, but especially with a fairing in the way, they're a pain in the arris to change out, and the cheap ones fail far faster than decent ones.

 

[Guest]

Do you have a single indicator for your turn signals or do you have an indicator for each side?

Sounds silly, but a single indicator bulb will require some electronic trickery if you switch to LED.

 

[Admiral Beez]

I replaced all my cluster lights with these.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TML5LLH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

not difficult. Just have to remove a lot of stuff first.

Do you find these bulbs illuminate the entire gauge? The reviews suggest the beam is narrow.

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

To my eye, they’re at least as good as the original bulbs, maybe a little whiter, possibly a little brighter. They’re certainly no worse than the originals. Honestly, I was expecting the little LED bulbs to transform the look of my instruments at night. They didn’t. No one would look at my clocks and say “wow, LEDs!” My Truck-lite headlamp, on the other hand, is far better than the original and quite different.

 

[Guest]

The lights in the gauges are diffused greatly, and put through a colored filter, so the color of the LED will not be as apparent as with an LED that you view directly, like a headlight.

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

One thing about the LED bulbs I linked from Amazon, and I would suppose any LED bulbs, If you plug them in and they don't work, pull them and flip them 180 degrees. Test all before you re-insert into the back of the instruments.