• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

250-500cc WR 250 lighting

lankydoug

lankydoug

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Does anyone have any experience with a brighter light bulb for the stock front plate or a better lighted plate that will run off the stock electrical system? How many amp light can you run with stock set up?
 
I have been looking into the same thing for my 300. I haven't been able to figure out how many watts that stator is, but since the bike is sold w street legal attire, I am assuming that the 35watt stock bulb can be bumped up to 55 watt without burning up the electronics, OR melting through the polycarbonate lens on the stock light. Also, I have been researching lights and found the new Polisports HMX twin LED. It looks awesome. Its twin LED so it burns with a bright white light, and the stock system should power it without a hitch since it is LED. It is on my christmas list.
I would love to know the true answer to your question though, so if anyone knows.......:)
 
marcmo0 said:
I have been looking into the same thing for my 300. I haven't been able to figure out how many watts that stator is, but since the bike is sold w street legal attire, I am assuming that the 35watt stock bulb can be bumped up to 55 watt without burning up the electronics, OR melting through the polycarbonate lens on the stock light. Also, I have been researching lights and found the new Polisports HMX twin LED. It looks awesome. Its twin LED so it burns with a bright white light, and the stock system should power it without a hitch since it is LED. It is on my christmas list.
I would love to know the true answer to your question though, so if anyone knows.......:)
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No expert, especially on the new bikes but I don't think a 55w dot bulb will shine brightly with the stock setup.
 
no, you are right. 55watts will get you home, but not enough to make for a fun night out. I think I am going to try either the Polisport one that I mentioned or the tried and true Acerbis DHH dual halogen. The Polisport would be brighter with twin LED, its just a bit more expensive. Still pretty reasonable though. I also am pretty lucky that I have a couple of Light and Motion HID lights that I strap to my helmet chin bar for night rides. They are defnitely expensive, but provide a couple of hours of amazing light and lots of smiles when the sun goes down.
 
I read that it has a 120w output. It is in a owners manual off of huskyoutlet.com. Look up 2007 CR/WR250 Repair off that site. Page 344 under generator.

I've run two 50w mr16 lamps and have had no problems. 120w stator is amazing. People pay alot for 55w and the wr250 come stock with 120w. Yeah buddy.
 
Bench Racer 117 said:
I read that it has a 120w output. It is in a owners manual off of huskyoutlet.com. Look up 2007 CR/WR250 Repair off that site. Page 344 under generator.

I've run two 50w mr16 lamps and have had no problems. 120w stator is amazing. People pay alot for 55w and the wr250 come stock with 120w. Yeah buddy.
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That's awesome and good to know. Does it throw you over the bars when you turn on the lights?
 
Does it throw you over the bars when you turn on the lights?
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No way. Can't tell at all. It's designed for that wattage. I wouldn't go more than 110w used just so it doesn't get overloaded and possibly fry something. My useage of 100w is perfect IMO. But, more light the better. mr16 lamps take alot to use. LED's would be better, HID is best, when it comes to watt draw.

I switched the stock headlight lamp out for the cheapest and brightest lamp that I could find at Walmart. I found a 60w lamp for $8. It did require some modifying. I had to build a lamp key to fit into the housing so it wouldn't spin. And I had to "make" the wiring work. I also installed a switch on the headlight for cool factor. The 60w works just fine for getting around. Not good enough to shred at high speeds.
 
I have a blue plated (street legal) 2007 Husqvarna WR250.. One day (when I have time) I plan to make a custom wiring harness so it
will have a battery (and a Trail Tech regulator/rectifier) so I can run turn signals, horn, heated grips, gps etc.. And a Cibie (rally type)
light from a Yamaha TTR250.. And run a pigtail to my Nightsun mountain bike helmet light(12V / 20W + 35W) for real night time riding..

A friend of mine Graham did a write up here: 04 WR250 Conversion to 12V DC with Battery

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