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Brake light upgrade

Very nicely done! If you ever decide to make up a few to sell, let me know. Would love a two light setup without the mounting plate and your little programming tool! Would save me the frustration of figuring out the wiring lol
 
I'm still on travel right now but, when I finally do make it home, I'll try to remember to post up information for you showing the wiring and component terminations.

The programing box is just something I made for my convenience so that I can quickly change the display if I wanted to or if for some reason I had to.
 
chucksuki said:
I grew up near ellington! In Pasadena. I live in Spring Branch(NW) now. I ride down to the south side now and then to see friends. Hoping to go to take a ride to the beach as soon as it's in the 80's. there was a light freeze last night that freaked all the gardeners out.
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Damn, I grew up in Pasa-getdown-dena. Right off Queens street and S Houston Rd. Long way from there now, but I still see my family out there.
 
mrl1000l said:
Damn, I grew up in Pasa-getdown-dena. Right off Queens street and S Houston Rd. Long way from there now, but I still see my family out there.
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I went to Queens intermediate. grew up in the same neighborhood for sure. I was on handell between oaks and perez. we had to have been blocks from each other.
 
I broke my arm at that park across from the school and the philips 66 on that swingset that looked like a dome. This is assuming we were there around the same time period of course.
 
flatlander said:
any chance these bulbs work as a direct replacement?
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for the taillight yes you just plug it in.

it does illuminate the "bulb issue" lights on the dash though which is super annoying at night.

I pulled those bulbs on the dash bezel. before every ride, i make sure the tail light is operational. no issues so far.

someone could make a tail light out of a phlatlight PT54 Red LED.... that would be RIDICULOUS. i mean that led can be driven at 2.7V @ 9A for like 1000 lumens of red light lol.

brian
 
runewolf said:
Very nicely done! If you ever decide to make up a few to sell, let me know. Would love a two light setup without the mounting plate and your little programming tool! Would save me the frustration of figuring out the wiring lol
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I'm home now, kinda forgot about this thread, sorry bout that. Anyway, I got home a month and a half ago and just now remembered your post, are you still interested in more information? Let me know and I'll dig up the little wiring diagram I made for it.

Again, sorry I forgot about this. :o
 
reliant_turbo said:
cool. no one should miss that.

I just have the superbright led's 3w with brake flasher.

http://www.superbrightleds.com/more...watt-high-power-led-w-brake-flasher/923/2274/

the strobe effect is pretty noticeable though not as much as cop lights all over the back of your bike. :)

id be a little concerned about the wig-wag effect if the vid shows it correctly. around here, you can strobe but wig-wagging left to right mimics a cop car and gets them all excited. then again, your life is more important than worrying about cops bothering you.

Brian
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I know it's a bit later but, I was thinking about this thread because another thread about brake lights was posted. Then I started remembering the bulbs you had linked to and wanted to get another look at them, I think I'm gonna buy one and give it a try. I had bought a slightly different type and was not happy with it because it was not a drop in replacement because of the rubber seal on the tail light socket of the bike, I wanted it so badly but, I felt that I was gonna break the bulb if I tried to force it. Then life and work got in the way and I forgot about the bulb and this thread.

Five years later and the brake light upgrade is still working great and just as bright as ever. Once I get the bulb, I'll post an updated picture if it is as bright as I hope it is.
 
Well, I finally received the bulbs I was waiting for and excitedly ran out to swap out the bulbs and much to my surprise, it was a no-go.
The bulb actually fit without a problem and lit but, the problem was that for some reason the tail light portion does not light and instead, it causes the extra brake lights that I have mounted to light at all times and at the same time, the new LED bulb I just installed actually lights when the brakes are applied but not brightly lit as an LED should be.

This tells me that some how, the new drop in replacement LED is providing a ground for the rest of the lights that I had installed to augment the existing brake light. Don't really have time to trace it down at this time but will in the future. Thinking about it, it has to be providing a path to ground for the relay I installed, at least I have a direction to look.

Just an update.
 
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