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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

LED tail lights and turn signals

I just recieved my turn signals and tail light in the mail, and as you can see, some assembly will be required! I decided to go with the LED strips commonly found on ebay because I wanted to be able to place the lights underneath the lip of the seat cowl (the picture below explains it better). Apparently it will not take much to convert normal bulb lights to LED, all you need is a LED flasher relay to replace your stock one, this can also be found on ebay.
Advantages:
  • Compact
  • Flexible
  • Bright
  • Look cool and give the bike a custom appearance

Disadvantages:

  • May or may not pass safety inspection AKA not DOT approved
  • Need to buy a new flasher relay
  • Pointless if your current lights work fine

Heres a quick Video of the lights hooked up to a 9 volt battery (rated for 12V use)

And here are some pictures of what they look like in daylight.


I plan to put the brake light underneath the lip of the cowl and the turn signals positioned vertically on either side.

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