LED tail light Issues
03-11-2011, 08:21 PM
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LED tail light Issues
Hey I'm having issues with a LED tail light I purchased off eBay. first I want to say that I have searched through old threads and my problems need more detail then what has been been givin. I'm not having any problems with the turn signals. The issue is the brake light. The previous owner of my bike did some real crackhead stuff to the wiring so I have had to pretty much rewire a lot of the tail end. Because of all that I do not have the stock connectors for the tail light. I have been trying to figure out which wires go to which but I can only come out with two results. 1. the tail light is bright like the im pushing on the breaks and 2. the tail light is dim like its supposed to be but when when i hit my breaks it doesn't get any brighter. Any help would really be appreciated thanks!
03-12-2011, 12:59 PM
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Alright im going to try to give as much info on whats going on here as I can. I have had to splice all my wires that go to my rear lighting. What I have is 2 Green and yellow wires 3 brown wires (one of them is a lighter brown) and 4 green wires. The sold green wires have very small markings on them 2 of them have small black squares and the others 2 have small gray squares on them. The tail light I bought has 1 black wire 1 red wire and 1 yellow wire. These three wires are for the running light and break light. I know that there is two sets of the three wires is for the tail light. If anyone can help me out here I would be very grateful
03-13-2011, 01:35 AM
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if it only lights up with the rear switch then you gotta pull apart your front brake switch and clean the connections. That's the most likely culprit, a 30amp fuse is a bad idea, but that wouldn't be the problem. In fact, if you're running an LED rear, it probably only pulls a little over 1.5amps or so, but I don't know which one you're running.
But check the front switch; if there is even the smallest amount of corrosion on those contact points it'll tweak stuff up pretty bad.
But check the front switch; if there is even the smallest amount of corrosion on those contact points it'll tweak stuff up pretty bad.
03-15-2011, 07:24 PM
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Alright im going to try to give as much info on whats going on here as I can. I have had to splice all my wires that go to my rear lighting. What I have is 2 Green and yellow wires 3 brown wires (one of them is a lighter brown) and 4 green wires. The sold green wires have very small markings on them 2 of them have small black squares and the others 2 have small gray squares on them. The tail light I bought has 1 black wire 1 red wire and 1 yellow wire. These three wires are for the running light and break light. I know that there is two sets of the three wires is for the tail light. If anyone can help me out here I would be very grateful
03-17-2011, 10:19 PM
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I have a hard copy of the Helm's Service Manual (1998-2005) I could email you pdfs of wiring diagram if you still have trouble. It would show where those wires started out anyway. There may even be an image in the knowledge base forum manuals thread but i did not look.
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