{"id":269,"date":"2010-04-21T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/hid-converter-arrives-upholstery-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:11:14","slug":"hid-converter-arrives-upholstery-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/trikes\/hid-converter-arrives-upholstery-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"HID Converter arrives; Upholstery in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the sealed beam headlight is probably adequate for the Dragon Trike, I decided that I would like to update it. Its a pretty standard 5 3\/4″ headlight, probably salvaged from a current model Sportster when the trike was built in the mid-70’s. There are lots of kits to convert sealed beam to halogen, notably using the H4 bulb.<\/p>\n

There are also kits to convert halogen lights to HID.<\/p>\n

So, I have ordered both. I have a halogen replacement headlight coming and today I received the HID kit to convert the new headlight.<\/p>\n

The little 12 volt supply at my desk doesn’t provide enough current to light it effectively, so I’ll have to play with it later….<\/p>\n

 I spoke with an upholsterer of some renown. Looks like it will run about $350. He has some cool snake\/lizard pattern vinyl that seems appropriate for a dragon trike….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the sealed beam headlight is probably adequate for the Dragon Trike, I decided that I would like to update it. Its a pretty standard 5 3\/4″ headlight, probably salvaged from a current model Sportster when the trike was built in the mid-70’s. There are lots of kits to convert sealed beam to halogen, notably … Continue reading HID Converter arrives; Upholstery in the works<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}