LED headlight

[Richard from SE AZ]

I don't want to switch my 2n to 12 volt cuz everything works so well on 6V except for the headlights. I want to go with LED. Can someone tell me where I can get 6V LED lights that will fit my Tractolight buckrts ?

 

[Dick W. Pirkey, Jr.]

Steiner Tractor...........

https://antique-tractor-parts.link_disallowed/tractor/Ford-8n-Led-Headlight?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyMLa0YrA4gIVCorICh1O1gA0EAAYAiAAEgKHZfD_BwE

 

[doublebass73]

(quoted from post at 22:36:32 05/28/19) I don't want to switch my 2n to 12 volt cuz everything works so well on 6V except for the headlights. I want to go with LED. Can someone tell me where I can get 6V LED lights that will fit my Tractolight buckrts ?

I looked for a while and couldn't find any. I was able to find a 6V LED for my worklight and taillight but nothing for the Tractolights. In my case I run the tractor at night in the snow so the heat from the incandescent bulbs is actually a good thing for keeping snow from building up.

 

[Jim in Western MI]

Just use 12v and connect them in series instead of parallel.

 

[doublebass73]

(quoted from post at 12:43:03 05/29/19) Just use 12v and connect them in series instead of parallel.

His system is 6 volt.

 

[Kevin in MN]

https://www.external_link/ABC3696-12-Volt-LED-Lamp-with-flood-beam-pattern

This is listed to work as a replacement for the 4019 6v


Kevin

 

[Tony in SD]

If you hook the LED lights up in series, you would need 24 VDC to make them work IF the circuit is purely resistive. I?d have to see the LED light circuit to know for sure. IMHO Sometimes they do so odd designs.

 

[Royse]

I bought a pair of 6V LED lights to fit the tracto-light fixtures off
Amazon a while back. They are out there! I'll see if I can find who
I bought them from. I might even consider selling mine. I went
another direction and have never installed them so I can't tell you
how well they work.

 

[Richard from SE AZ]

Let me know if you find where you found them or if you do decide to sell yours please.

 

[doublebass73]

(quoted from post at 20:10:44 05/29/19) I bought a pair of 6V LED lights to fit the tracto-light fixtures off
Amazon a while back. They are out there! I'll see if I can find who
I bought them from. I might even consider selling mine. I went
another direction and have never installed them so I can't tell you
how well they work.

If you go to your Amazon page and click on "your orders" you can search that way. It's on the top right hand side of the page. You can set filters also so if you know what year you bought them you can look up all your orders for that year.

I'm curious to see what you were able to find. The LED worklight bulb I found operates on a pretty wide input voltage range (5 - 30VDC) so I'm wondering if the ones you found are similar.

 

[Phil N]

https://www.ledlight.com/converter-6-volt-to-12-volt-4-amp.aspx

Click on above. This is a step up transformer from 6V to 12V. With this you could use any 12V lights as long as they don't exceed 4 amps combined. Personally, I now have all my stuff converted to 12V and never looked back, but this transformer is a good option if you must stay 6V.

 

[Royse]

(quoted from post at 06:59:37 05/30/19)

(quoted from post at 20:10:44 05/29/19) I bought a pair of 6V LED lights to fit the tracto-light fixtures off
Amazon a while back. They are out there! I'll see if I can find who
I bought them from. I might even consider selling mine. I went
another direction and have never installed them so I can't tell you
how well they work.

If you go to your Amazon page and click on "your orders" you can search that way. It's on the top right hand side of the page. You can set filters also so if you know what year you bought them you can look up all your orders for that year.

I'm curious to see what you were able to find. The LED worklight bulb I found operates on a pretty wide input voltage range (5 - 30VDC) so I'm wondering if the ones you found are similar.

Yes, they are a wide range bulb as you describe.
This looks to be the ones. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07LBKCRSR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Phil N]

https://www.usalight.com/US-PAR36-3K-9W-p/PAR36-WW9W-160.htm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-tSAsZrD4gIVR1SGCh3AEAT2EAQYASABEgJa0vD_BwE

A pair of the above lights would work well with the step up transformer in my earlier post. They draw 0.58 amps each or 1.16 amps combined.

 

[doublebass73]

(quoted from post at 04:52:08 05/30/19)

(quoted from post at 06:59:37 05/30/19)

(quoted from post at 20:10:44 05/29/19) I bought a pair of 6V LED lights to fit the tracto-light fixtures off
Amazon a while back. They are out there! I'll see if I can find who
I bought them from. I might even consider selling mine. I went
another direction and have never installed them so I can't tell you
how well they work.

If you go to your Amazon page and click on "your orders" you can search that way. It's on the top right hand side of the page. You can set filters also so if you know what year you bought them you can look up all your orders for that year.

I'm curious to see what you were able to find. The LED worklight bulb I found operates on a pretty wide input voltage range (5 - 30VDC) so I'm wondering if the ones you found are similar.

Yes, they are a wide range bulb as you describe.
This looks to be the ones. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07LBKCRSR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

That's the exact same bulb I mentioned that I used in my worklight. The problem is it won't fit in a Tract-O-Lite housing on an N tractor.

The Tract-O-Lite housings use a PAR 46 bulb which is 5 3/4", the LED bulbs you have are PAR 36 which is 4 1/2". It fits the worklight on an N but not the Tract-O-Lite headlight housings.

 

[Jim in Western MI]

Thanks for correcting that..., I got my gee and haw reversed. I was thinking of protecting the lights. My bad.

 

[stephen guye]

How about simply running them in series? B+, lamp - lamp, ground.