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xsleo Full Member
Joined: Oct 28, 2007 Posts: 1528 Location: Earlville NY
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 8:45 am Post subject: LED tail light |
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On my vacation I stopped at a Pep Boys to look at what they had for LED lights. I found a turn/tail/brake light with a metal housing and a bottom mount bolt.
I thought that if I could get the LED's out I could fit them in my lense. If not I could just drill holes in the metal housing and mount it on the stock tail light base.
The LED's And lense were held in with a snap ring, after I pulled the LED's and lense out I remeved the lense, held by two small screws.
The LED's fit into the lense with about 1/16" clearance. There is a lip around the LED's. I held the LED's in place in the lense and drilled thru the screw holes to make holes in the lip. This way the holes line up.
I had to remove the stock bulb socket and reflector from the housing. I then held the LED's in the lense and screwed it back on the housing. The screws were a bit tough to get lined up, but hold the LED's tight enough to keep them from moving around.
I'll post some pics to show how it went.
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drilling holes in lip of LED's |
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_________________ "You live more in five minutes on a bike than most people do in there whole life"
'75 XS650B with a 79 dual disc front end, rear disk brake, Chrysler reg, Radio Shack rect, LED tail/ brake and turn signals. |
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xsleo Full Member
Joined: Oct 28, 2007 Posts: 1528 Location: Earlville NY
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 9:57 am Post subject: Re: LED tail light |
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Lights lit, turns light with brake |
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Bottom view with LED's in stalled |
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_________________ "You live more in five minutes on a bike than most people do in there whole life"
'75 XS650B with a 79 dual disc front end, rear disk brake, Chrysler reg, Radio Shack rect, LED tail/ brake and turn signals. |
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Retiredgentleman 650Rider Supporter
Joined: Mar 03, 2007 Posts: 2258 Location: Calgary, Alberta 1978 XS650 SE
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: LED tail light |
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Nicely done, looks good too.
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gordo 650Rider Supporter
Joined: Oct 09, 2008 Posts: 559 Location: CT.U.S.A.
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 12:34 pm Post subject: Re: LED tail light |
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Leo, look's good. Nice job, I looked through your photo's that you posted, & I gotta say, your presentation is top's. Very clear.
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xsleo Full Member
Joined: Oct 28, 2007 Posts: 1528 Location: Earlville NY
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: LED tail light |
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Thanks gordo, now I know how to get pics posted and a good camera I can do a better job of showing my mods. I put a few more in my photo gallery. rg it went a lot better than the other LED light I had, not as much mods to the LED's, and thanks for getting me pointed in the amp saving direction. I plan on changeing out the front turn signals too.
_________________ "You live more in five minutes on a bike than most people do in there whole life"
'75 XS650B with a 79 dual disc front end, rear disk brake, Chrysler reg, Radio Shack rect, LED tail/ brake and turn signals. |
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xsleo Full Member
Joined: Oct 28, 2007 Posts: 1528 Location: Earlville NY
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Posted: July 19, 2009, 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: LED tail light |
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I got the front turn signal LED's installed and a few problems cropped up with the brake light adapter I installed to light the rear turn signals with the brake lights.
After I put the new LED's in the front I turned the lights off to save the battery while I played with the turn signals. I noticed that the tail light would flash dimly with the turn signals, and the right front turn signal lit with the brake light.
I thought that there was some feedback I could fix with some diodes. Tried the diodes in as many ways that I could think of, no luck. I guess the adapter can't handle LED's. I removed the adapter and the lights all work right. no feedback.
_________________ "You live more in five minutes on a bike than most people do in there whole life"
'75 XS650B with a 79 dual disc front end, rear disk brake, Chrysler reg, Radio Shack rect, LED tail/ brake and turn signals. |
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jayel 650Rider Supporter
Joined: Apr 16, 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: SE Iowa 1974 TX650A
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Posted: July 20, 2009, 6:32 am Post subject: Re: LED tail light |
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check all grounds, a poor ground will feed back like that,
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