OK, thanks for the info. The mower is 12v and yes has an alternator. I already upgraded from 21 watt light bulbs to 27 watt (which did make quite a difference), but I didn't want to push my luck with how much draw the alternator could handle / recharge for. I intended to rewire in such a way that I could always put the stock bulb sockets and bulbs back in place. I was thinking something along the lines of an old CPU heatsink and a couple empty 52mm reflector/heatsink modules from DX. They would also sit behind the stock headlight "lens". I didn't want the lights mounted anywhere else on the mower because they would end up looking too redneck (and I'm not into that). Plus it would be a "sleeper".
hmm, glad I did a test order first. As mentioned above, solder job looks really ugly, too. I've reflowed several xm-l, but don't think I want to try this style
as much as I like aspherics, I don't like the beamshots of an mc-e behind one at ALL
my uses won't be doing any white wall hunting, and I will use multiples, so i think I'll be hard pressed to notice artifacts. but....i really don't know...yet ;)
I'd be surprised if the alternator couldn't take another 2A...but playing it safe is a good idea. So is non-redneck 'sleeper', and using an inner reflector though I wonder if 56W of halogen isn't pretty close to 24W of cree xp-G (...don't know...)
as far as redneck goes...they don't add lights to their mower...a real red-neck does a light spray of weed and grass killer on the whole lawn so they don't have to mow very often. I would never do that at my place though, since I rent
I'd say my KD C8 on high blows away the current lights except in terms of spill. A real redneck would probably just strap two KD C8's on the hood and call it done!
Of course I could always go with a high-powered XM-L headlight (literally speaking now - a light on my head).
