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Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:02 am
by chasbmw
I would like to mount a small LED in the edge of my /S screen as an indicator warning light.
Does anyone done this before? I seem to remember something about LEDs requiring a resistor in the circuit..........
All advice at a level suitable for some one illiterate in the ways of electricity welcomed.
Charles
Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:06 am
by SteveD
Paging ME109 to the keyboard please, ME109 to the keyboard!
Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:08 am
by Deleted User 72
chasbmw wrote:I would like to mount a small LED in the edge of my /S screen as an indicator warning light.
Does anyone done this before? I seem to remember something about LEDs requiring a resistor in the circuit..........
All advice at a level suitable for some one illiterate in the ways of electricity welcomed.
Charles
I
think a repeater running in parallel there while retaining the original wiring scheme would work. But I was wrong once before.
Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:15 am
by Motorhead
the LED from Pep Boys come ready to mount and wire in
I picked my colors and wired them in Triumph style, after my Texas trip I installed a black cover that solved my view in daylight use
Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:23 am
by dougie
Disclaimer -
I am "someone illiterate in the ways of electricity" as well, so this is just my "what I would try". Sometimes I get lucky.
If you are running stock turn signals and bulbs, and you add a small LED in parallel, then your bike's system will do "same as it ever was" for the turn signal and also supply the additional, miniscule amount of juice to the LED.
You've got me thinking Charles.
Hmmmmm, in the corner of the S fairing you say? Could be nice.
Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:03 pm
by chasbmw
Progress being made, found sources of green LEDs complete with suitable resistor for 12v use.
Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:07 pm
by chasbmw
Whilst I'm at it. I might as well relocate the fuses to outside the headlamp shell, as they are a PIA to change with the S fairing.
Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:11 pm
by Deleted User 62
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Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:33 pm
by George Ryals
You may want to install a variable resister so you can turn the brightness up in daytime and down at night. I remember someone posting a picture of indicator lights on the fairing edge. May not have been led or S faring. I think it was an RS fairing. I'll look for it.
Re: Using LED as indicator warning light.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:48 pm
by chasbmw
Tim,
Any chance of simplified wiring diagram, series V parallel?