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[2fromTX]

Ordered and installed a pair of LED taillights today. Everything works as advertised,BUT (and it may just be my jacked up eyes) it looks like the left one is flickering or pulsing very rapidly!?!?

I'm the first to admit that besides basic splicing and checking for voltage,I am an electrical dipwad.

Anyone??

 

[Lunchbox1983]

Possible bad ground

double check make sure it is solid on both sides.

 

[2fromTX]

Thanks LB I will do that.

Of course with the bike being used,those who came before me were even bigger dipwads. I wish had had taken pictures of the birdsnest of wires and black tape that represented my tail light power supply.

I was able to still utilize the factory connectors,so my question is,can I tap into the factory ground wire and run an independent ground to the frame??

Thanx gang

 

[Lunchbox1983]

Yes you should be able to ground that way, not sure what kind of trike you have just make sure the frame is a true ground, and not some alloy that will not connduct.

Sorry to say I am one of those rat nest dipwads, take the seat off my Vulcan or my GL1500 and a mechanic starts hyperventlating. My wiring is good just messy.

On the Stallion my wife shows up and does all the routing and zip tying to make it look neat, for some reason I cannot get her help on my bikes.

 

[2fromTX]

To each their own I always say,I just suffer from a mild form of OCD that just will not allow stuff like that to happen(which is why a normal 2 hour task usually takes me 5) LOL

Thanks again for your input,I am not gonna get to fix it until we get back from BBBQ.

 

[trikes4ever]

When I built my last trike, I tried to make it easy. I used all RED wire (really). Then you just hook 'red to red' - what could be simpler?

 

[Gorilla]

When I built my last trike, I tried to make it easy. I used all RED wire (really). Then you just hook 'red to red' - what could be simpler?

Nothing could be simpler just very confusing when need to repair.

 

[Lunchbox1983]

When I built my last trike, I tried to make it easy. I used all RED wire (really). Then you just hook 'red to red' - what could be simpler?

Funny, it work too as long as you don't mind popping a fuse or 2 when wiring up a new gaget.

 

[trikes4ever]

Speaking of LEDs, I finally got around to converting my Deuce rear turn signals to LED today. Had to add an 'equalizer' - 2 Radio Shack resistors connected between turn signal hots and ground. I like them! Have smoked lenses on the rear, so the red comes through nicely - needed red rather than amber as I've got a module that turns them into brake lites too. Now I just have to remember to manually check them periodically, as the 'burned out lamp' detection circuit will always see the resistors - even if a bulb burns out (unlikely with LEDs I hope).

 

[John Luciano]

Find out why it blinks , I want mine to do that...

 

[Comanche]

When I built my last trike, I tried to make it easy. I used all RED wire (really). Then you just hook 'red to red' - what could be simpler?

1+ I tried to give you a one plus. The program said the message I tried to enter was too short.

So, please take a one plus. funny.

 

[Comanche]

Find out why it blinks , I want mine to do that...

That is why I have modulators on mine both front and back.

 

[Big_Steve]

To each their own I always say,I just suffer from a mild form of OCD that just will not allow stuff like that to happen(which is why a normal 2 hour task usually takes me 5) LOL

Thanks again for your input,I am not gonna get to fix it until we get back from BBBQ.

I used to install low voltage systems. I worked with guys who installed everything perfectly tidy as they went. I'm like "Pigpen" in the Peanuts comics. No matter how long I take, how carefully I try, and using 100's of zip ties, I still leave a Spaghetti factory behind.

 

[trikes4ever]

Red wires everywhere...

 

[Blondie Gal]

Wow! Super-tough looking machine!!!

 

[2fromTX]

After consulting with the ever so helpful folks in Troup,Tx. I was informed that the lights were designed to do that(blink twice and then come on solid) LOL and here I was thinking I did something wrong:blush: