:cheers

 

Nice work!

 

On my GF's 09 R6 her new (two wire) LED front signals came with two wiring diagrams. One if you wanted them as running lights and blink for the signals like the stock bulbs, and the other if you wanted them off all the time and just blink when you signal.

We hooked them up so they run all the time and blink when you signal like the stock bulbs. No resistors, diodes or relays were required and they run at full brightness/12v (as measured on my multimeter)!

I'll see if I can find the wiring diagram, but maybe it's different on your 05!?

-Jamie M.

 

Same here when I put my 2 wire flush signals on my 2003.
I hooked it up one way and grounded and the positive wire in one slot and they came on all the time.
So I was like wait that's not right.
Then I switched to the other and they were off and came on for signal.
Then I was like wait a second, I want them on all the time and then to signal!
And switched them back.

Now I got some nice running lights/turn signals.

Love it!

 

good how-to, i think i might do this on my 05

 

Thanks man.
I'm going to solder the resistor and diode into a bread board so its a bit cleaner, with no possibilities of shorting.
I'll post pics soon.

 

Thanks!

 

Love this thread, thanks so much bro!! can't wait to do this. Waiting on my side markers to come in.

 

Looks great, subbed for later! Gotta do this with my new flushies!

 

So what Im reading is the Blue wires on the oem sides are running leads and the blinker leads are the Brown on the left and Green on the Right????

 

Motoman21,

I just did my 11 R1 and that was the color combo on mine...Love this mod! Had to add a load resistor on each side parallel across the black and turn signal wires to slow down the blink rate, but it works great.:toocool:

 

Thanks for the awesome how-to...Works great! I was disappointed when I got my PL flush mounts in and they didn't function as running lights...On top of that they caused the integrated tail light turn signal to go way too fast. This how-to plus a load resistor fixed everything up. Thanks again!

 

Can you post a diagram of how you added the load resistor, and is there any special type of load resistor to use? I'm having the exact same prob. on my 11 R6. I have the integrated tail light, and with the new led fronts, they blink way to fast....
Thx for the help

 

I'll have to check what the specs were on the ones I got from Radio Shack. They are the cement type load resistors...About $3 a piece. Just wire them in parallel with your blinker wires. I can't find the original forum where the diagram was...go figure.

 

That would be awesome if you could get the specs
on the exact type of load resistor and that diagram
would help alot also... Thanks for help, I didn't really
want to have to change the flasher relay when the
problem could be solved cheaper..

 

Its a 20 watt 8 ohm resistor. I'm going to relocate the resisitors due to their weight pulling on the flushmount harness. Probably mount them up on the frame somewhere.

 

Thanks for the info. this is exactly what I needed
did you hook the load resistor to the black wire and
the other end to where the yellow wire connects
to the other two, in between the diode

 

Yep that's how I wired it up.

 

Perfect... Thanks very much for the help...
Cheers

 

Thanks for the awesome how-to.

 

OK, so let's get back onto the subject for a moment.

I want to wire up some diodes on my 2009 Harley Sportster.

Originally, I simply planned to do the relay option, until coming across this post, so big thanks to OP.

That said, I created a little breadboard with an LED, a resistor, and a diode. Connected it, and verified it worked.

I had to make big changes in the wiring diagram, because the Sportster is not quite the same as the R6 (who'd of thought? Anyway...).

The Sportster comes with Filament Bulbs, and LEDs draw much less current. When replacing filament bulbs with LEDs, load resistors have to be included or the Turn Signal Module (TSM) will detect that not enough current was used, and throw a code (i.e. Check Engine light).

I want to keep it that way, meaning I don't really want a Check Engine light; however, if I keep the load resistors in place (as shown in the attachment), they will be burning heat all of the time. I don't want that either.

How could I estimate how much current this circuit uses without the Load Resistors (in red)? Will the diodes use anything noticeable?

The LEDs I have are Rizoma Zero-11, which are rated at 13W.

Basically, I'm looking to answer a couple of questions:

1. Is there a way to calculate if I'll need the load resistors or not?
2. Where would load resistors need to be moved to if left on so that the circuit continues to work as it should?

Thanks,
~Joe

 

So, I got this to work on my 2009 Harley-Davidson Sportster XR1200:

You Tube video demo:

Here is the wiring diagram I ended up going with:



My situation turned out to be a little more involved than the simple schematic the OP showed.

 

Subbed for later, any complains with either method being too hot (hot enough to discolor or melt bodywork). Thanks!


Sent from Motorcycle.com App

 

No complaints from my job!

In fact, as shown in that pic I posted above, I went from having a Load Resistor at each LED Turn Signal (4 in all) to only using a Single Load Resistor. Since I only had 1, I had more flexibility on where to install it. Finding a spot for 4 resistors can be difficult if you don't want them hanging out in the air.

 

Hello to all. Just joined up in order to see the fotos of the wiring on the first page by the OP. But...they are still MIA. Does anyone have a link to the fotos, or maybe others, so I can see how to hook all of this up? TIA.

 

It seems the OP is gone.

Probably no longer owns his R6, and cleaned up some old photos in his Imageshack account.

Pics are gone.

You'll have to blaze your own way now.

Here's a write-up I did for an XR1200: http://www.jp2code.net/xr/LEDs.aspx

 

I just bought a 2000 YZF-R6, trying to fix the previous owners wiring (turn signals would blink at the same time regardless of position), kind of upset that the diagrams are gone.