Honda or Ariens Snowblower LED headlight installation
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This video shows how to add an LED headlight to your Honda, Ariens, MTD, Toro snowblower with a few simple parts (instead of a mess of random rectifiers and capacitors that are not properly designed for the long haul). I'm using an off-the-shelf AC to DC converter that contains a full wave rectifier, a properly spec'd capacitor and short circuit protection all encapsulated in epoxy for a safe, weatherproof and reliable installation. All you need is an AC stator wire that can support the power your LED requires.
I added the small LED under the dash panel to light the area where the operator stands. It only uses .020 Amps ( 20 milli amps ) so the converter will have no problem powering the headlight and the small LED.
Nice job. Thanks for the night post.
Sehr schöne Arbeit und gut erklärt !👍
Schöne Grüße aus Tirol/Austria
Nice job where did you pick up your converter from ?
www.superbrightleds.com/12v-ac-to-dc-converter-module-3-amps I have bought various items from these guys and they have very good customer support.
Beautiful Fab work! Curious since it has mounting holes on the front auger. Why didn'y you go with a light bar or two pods on the auger housing.
I may know the answer to this just curious. Also since LEDS don't emit heat do you have issues with it icing over?
I could have mounted them on the bucket but I like to have the light pulled back a bit so I can see the front half of the machine while I'm running it. I think the lights look strange when mounted on the bucket and when you run up against a large snowbank, the lights get covered with snow and you can't see what's going on. I know many folks like them mounted on the bucket itself.
I haven't has any issues with it icing over... but I haven't run it in a blizzard yet so it's possible. I generates some heat but not as much as an incandescent bulb.
I have one of these and am nervous seeing two positive red wires on the AC input side, is this unit forgiving? I'm assuming it works regardless of which input red wire goes to the positive side of the stator and the other red wire goes to the ground.
Hi Dan, I have an HS 1132. Do I still need to add the bridge rectifier it did come with a large halogen lamp. I watched Anthony’s video and it appears he just popped out a halogen bulb and added a par 36 LED bulb, it a smaller housing for the bulb. no mention of bridge rectifier.
I'm not sure. You can try it and see how you make out. It might already have the rectifier built into it somewhere. No harm to try.
Did you put one of the converter wires to ground?
The AC to DC converter used here has 2 AC input wires and 2 DC output wires. For the AC input, connect the AC stator wire that comes out of the engine to one of the "ac in" wires on the converter. Connect the other "ac in " wire to the chassis ground on the engine or frame. Since it's ac input, it doesn't matter which input wire you choose to connect to the stator wire. Just connect one to the ground and one to the stator wire. The DC output polarity does matter when powering an LED headlight. (LED= Light Emitting Diode - by definition a diode only allows current to flow in one direction. If you hook it up backward (reverse bias), you could damage the LED headlight. It only takes a second to damage it so make sure you verify your polarity before you try it). Connect the "+" positive output wire from the regulator to the positive (usually red) wire on the LED headlight. Connect the "-" negative output from the regulator to the negative (usually black) wire on the LED headlight. I could have connected the DC negative wire to the chassis but I wasn't sure if the converter would support the same common ground for the input and output or the output was a "floating" ground. I suspect you can tie the negative output to the chassis and one of the two AC input wires to the chassis and run just 1 wire out to the light and ground the other wire from the light to the chassis. It should work but I haven't tried it.
@@danmccarthy206 thanks Dan.. appreciate your help 👍
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My light dims when I go full throttle... what can that be?
Do you have the Buck AC/DC rectifier on your machine? I got mine the other day and I did some testing with the Buck rectifier hooked to the snowblower and reading DC output from the multimeter, I noticed at idle I get full 12V while at full throttle it got down as low as 8V....
@@jkucukov yes, it is a "AC/DC to 5V-15V rectifier filter"
@@MrOlemannen96 I tested again with load this time 12V 18W LED, it's not dimming when under full throttle. I think mine was getting low DC volts when measuring under no load. If you have a Multimeter test the AC input leads at low and high rpm to make sure you don't have a bad coil.