LED Indicators

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LED Indicators

Post by MillaMeter »

Thought I'd make this thread as I've done this myself and may come in handy for others.
Note: I used Motrax LED's and a Acuman LED Relay.

Step 1: Buy yaself some sexy LED indicators. Now I decided to go LED all round just to be on the safe side, the LEDs I bought are Motrax arrows and flush mounts for the front. See Pic.
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Step 2: Buy a Kawasaki LED relay from busters £14.99 Note: when fitting the relay, you have to cut off the connector block at the end of the 2 wires and attach 2 male spade connectors to each wire. See Pic.
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Step 3: When fitting LED's you must use resistors to draw back the current from the battery. This means LED's use roughly 1/10th of the power from a normal bulb indicator. So make sure you fit those resistors! I only wired up 2 on the front ones which works great, but if you still get a fast flashing signal, try adding more resistors, maybe to the back aswell.

Well that's that. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do cause I love em :D

FAQs
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Q. All indicators stay on when I turn either left or right...WTF?
A. You need to hook up some resistors, if you already have some hooked up, try adding more.

Q. I turn left, but the right side turns on... also, WTF?
A. The reason it's done that is because you've wired up the indicators round the wrong way, try swaping the wires round.

Q. Ok, I turn left or right, but the side I'm signaling just stays on, HELP!
A. This is because the normal relay is pushing out too much current to the LEDs, throw the relay in the biffa and get a LED Acuman from Busters!

Q. I've hooked up everything but my indicators still stay on either left or right when signaling!
A. Swap the 2 wires connecting to LED relay around.

Hope this helpfull.

Regards

Rich :)
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Re: LED Indicators

Post by RedexRobB »

Excellent thread Rich, nice one! :smt001
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Re: LED Indicators

Post by jam3z »

sweet, this should come in handy. :D nice one
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Re: LED Indicators

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Good thread, Rich!
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