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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 05:40 AM
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Its my own damn fault!

So i ordered a set of LED front turn signals / marker lights and finally got them in the mail last night. Apparently when i disconnected the harness on the right side, and hooked up the old multimeter, i read it all wrong. For some reason i thought the green wire was the turn signal, the solid blue was the ground and the blue with white stripe was the signal light wire.

WRONG!!!!!

To make a long story short, the smoke that started coming out of the LED when i temp installed it told me i f**ked up. I tried turning if off as fast as possible, but it was too late. I fried it something fierce.

Then when i looked to try to make sure the stem length was long enough to stick out of the farring, it was about 1/2 an inch short.

I unhooked everything, came on here and found the diagram which told me im an idiot, and just cost myself about $45.

Thanks for listening.
Old Nov 3, 2009 | 05:42 AM
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You're welcome...
Old Nov 3, 2009 | 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by captainchaos
You're welcome...
And you are a tad mean... But that's ok, so am I...

(I did do the samer thing not to long ago though... That was decidedly un-fun...)
Old Nov 3, 2009 | 06:51 AM
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I rode it to work today sans 1 front blinker, and in the back of my mind i think that everyone notices it, so i feel like even more of a ding dong. I rebuilt a car from the ground up with zero wiring problems, and i found it extremely frustrating that 3 tiny wires on a bike managed to **** me off this much. oh well... at least i didnt fry the wiring to the bike i guess.
Old Nov 3, 2009 | 07:16 AM
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That stuff happens to the best of us, I fried my newly built LED tail light because I wasn't careful enough and the circuit board grounded out. Poof and done, what a mess. Sucks you are out $45 bucks though.
Old Nov 3, 2009 | 08:17 PM
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Ya, once you let the smoke out it's really tough to get it back in.
Old Nov 4, 2009 | 03:16 AM
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This will fix it

http://www.zee-rover.nl/?page_id=351
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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr Toad
Ya, once you let the smoke out it's really tough to get it back in.
You should have seen me running around with a ziploc baggie trying to catch it all


Originally Posted by aka Yamadog
BWAHAAHAHAHAHAHA Thanks.. i needed that.
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