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I am in the process of buying parts to put my street legal cr500 back together and I have read as much as I can on the cr250 ignition swap. Finding an Eline seems out of the picture to me and the SH system seems like a lot of money too. My bike currently is just running a complete waste system with a trail tech battery behind the number plate running all led lighting. The exception to this is the head light, if I switch this on it is a 35 watt halogen bulb and it kills the battery very quickly. I want to be able to ride home if it gets dark, I'm not planning on riding the bike much at night, but I'd like to be able to ride home after dark. When I bought the bike it came with an 01 cr250 stator, flywheel, harness and cdi. I want to use this and add a moose lighting stator. I was thinking of only running the head light on this stator and keeping the battery and all led lighting separate, or maybe getting fancy and adding a voltage regulator/rectifier and wiring it into the battery. Has anyone run a similar set up? and does it work well enough to get you home safely at night? If this system doesn't work well enough I may just spring for the SH set up. Anyone's experience with adding lights to the 500 would be great!!!!! There really doesn't seem to be an inexpensive way to add lights. If I'm missing something please enlighten me. Thanks for your opinions, Chris

run the 01 parts, buy the stator with 50w lighting from Electrosport

Thanks Roostius Maximus!!!! I'll give that a shot!

I use the 02 cr250 ignition it has a coil which is rectified to run
the electric power vale and i run an led tail light and a led head
light ...the head light i got had two house type 12v low lights
in it when i bought it they where 12v18wat so i replaced them
with the led type house down lighting bulb its says its 5wats
it has like three led crystals in each bulb.They been working
for more than a year now no problem very bright but the
beam shines a little to wide.I don't know how to upload pics
on this site i would take some to show you

Thanks for sharing! I got my moose stator/lighting coil in the mail this week, and I already modified the 01 backing plate to fit! I'm going to give it a shot running a 35 watt bulb and see what happens. I will keep that in mind it seems like a good trick! 5 watts is nothing. Thanks

How did it turn out?

How did it turn out?

craigf40 wrote:I use the 02 cr250 ignition it has a coil which is rectified to run
the electric power vale and i run an led tail light and a led head
light ...the head light i got had two house type 12v low lights
in it when i bought it they where 12v18wat so i replaced them
with the led type house down lighting bulb its says its 5wats
it has like three led crystals in each bulb.They been working
for more than a year now no problem very bright but the
beam shines a little to wide.I don't know how to upload pics
on this site i would take some to show you

This is what I did however I used the electrosport 50w stator. Took two 9w 12v led house lights, 2 10w led offroad light, a trail tech full wave rec/reg, and a led tail light. Had the same setup on an rm80 for ice riding at night in the winter. It is extremely bright.

Got any pics of your setup? Had any problem with the stator failing on you?

still using the same set up same bulbs as well no issues
only issue i have is the beam is to wide needs a lil less
angle but no problem with coil stater ignition anything
like that LED with this ignition set up works ....tested
and tested no problems....iv seen they have even higher
wat LED bulbs available now so im going to get a couple
and try them out...only reason i haven't yet is coz why
fix it when its not broke...im really not too good on computers
iv tried before to get pics on here but cant sorry bout that
but its really a good lighting system