Helloo! I've stumbled upon your forum whilst researching my project below. Whilst 'Googling' I've seen quite a few different 'takes' on how to do this, a lot of them seem to be very 'back street' and potentially dangerous, so I thought I'd come and ask the pro's .
I was considering a new rear brake/side lamp as my FZ6 Fazer is a bit dated (especially when following newer bikes).
I fancy doing something different - without having taken the unit off, I gather there's two 'live's' (for the brake and main lights) with one ground. I'm thinking about drilling the reflector and fitting my own red LED's in addition to the current bulbs - two sets for each light source. Possibly a cluster around the centre of the reflector with a larger cluster around the outside of the reflector for the brake lights (higher intensity LED's) - wire these in parallel with resistors & a couple of diodes and surely that would be it?
My knowledge in this area is very sporadic having done lots of electronic work at college many years ago - Obviously this knowledge diminishes over time so you may need to be gentle with me.
My thinking is to use a smaller 5mm LED (So I don't completely ruin the reflectors reflection) upgrading to high intensity versions for the brake light cluster. If I can set these up to operate on the assumption of say an 14v circuit then I'll cover my bases on the variable output from the bike from high revs/fully charged battery conditions.
Can someone please pull apart my plan and help me put a solution together
Many thanks
Tim
I was considering a new rear brake/side lamp as my FZ6 Fazer is a bit dated (especially when following newer bikes).
I fancy doing something different - without having taken the unit off, I gather there's two 'live's' (for the brake and main lights) with one ground. I'm thinking about drilling the reflector and fitting my own red LED's in addition to the current bulbs - two sets for each light source. Possibly a cluster around the centre of the reflector with a larger cluster around the outside of the reflector for the brake lights (higher intensity LED's) - wire these in parallel with resistors & a couple of diodes and surely that would be it?
My knowledge in this area is very sporadic having done lots of electronic work at college many years ago - Obviously this knowledge diminishes over time so you may need to be gentle with me.
My thinking is to use a smaller 5mm LED (So I don't completely ruin the reflectors reflection) upgrading to high intensity versions for the brake light cluster. If I can set these up to operate on the assumption of say an 14v circuit then I'll cover my bases on the variable output from the bike from high revs/fully charged battery conditions.
Can someone please pull apart my plan and help me put a solution together
Many thanks
Tim