FBF Fender Eliminator

[Guest MikeC]

What brand of LED directionals did you get? I'd rather avoid adding extra circuitry and I have trashed one of my LED blinkers so I'm up for a new set.

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Sorry can't recall the manufactorer. I picked them up at a large Jap dealership. If I come across the name I will post it.

 

FYI...My front blinkers are stock, there may be enough load in them to allow the system to blink.

[NorBSATriGuzzi]

Standard turn signal blinkers rely on the load from at least two incandescent bulbs. LED's don't draw enough current to heat up the bi-metallic strip in the turn signal blinker - so it never starts blinking. You can either add a resistor in parallel with the LED turn signals (and no, I don't know the value, but I suspect that a 2 ohm 5 watt resistor from the Radio Shack would probably work but be forewarned - they're very large and ugly). A possibly better alternative, although ridiculously expensive, would be to install a Kisan SM2 Signal Minder and wire it for the running light function as well. It's an all electronic unit and so it shouldn't care about the actual load of the bulbs. For $100, it had damn well better not care about the load. The Kisan is pretty large too, it's best to make some wire extenders and run them back into the rear of the tailpiece and place the Kisan in there.

 

 

I bought the Rizoma signals:

 

http://www.pjsparts.com/catalog/product_in...;products_id=48

 

I am having a similar problem...the fronts work fine but when I hook up the rear I only get a couple of weak led's lit up solid.

 

 

 

 

They offer these...would this be what I need?

 

http://www.pjsparts.com/catalog/product_in...products_id=137