Congrats on the new purchase!Originally Posted by Joel S.
Congrats on the new purchase!
Here's a pic. It snowed 6" here today and get another pic I need to make my way up to the garage. Welcome to Springter.Nice!!!!lol no problem at all.
Grant
Nice and bright !!
Attachment 20088 Attachment 20090
https://youtu.be/qYhdrPoKyu0
Here's a photo of the new LED bulbs and the original Bulbs. The new LEDs are great !
Attachment 20092
Newbie here...what load equalizer do we need?
Thanks!
Craig_328,
I didn't need any load equalizer to convert the just the brake lights. The turn signals I kept stock.
The Hyperlites (mounted beside the license plate) came with their own equalizer so nothing else was needed.
Hope this helps.
http://www.socalmotogear.com/GL1800-...R-p/gl88nc.htm
this is the load equalizer you need Craig. Its a plug and play, makes things much easier.
Grant
Ordering the Smart Triple Play from Custom Dynamics. When I called, they wanted to know how many screws the Honda F6B has to determine which harness to send me. Apparently it's a 1 or 2 screw set up. Can anyone tell me which to order? (I'm not at home now so I can't look at the bike).
Thank you.
Ok!
As outlined in previous posts, This is an AWESOME visibility upgrade!
("Do these flashing lights make my butt look big?")
I am also a bit um... "persnickety" when it comes to my wiring. I'm not a fan of any type of "simple quickie wire splicing thingies". "Strip, Iron, Solder, Wrap", HOWEVER... That is JUST me. :-)
With that said, I wanted to put for some of my "Points of Experience" with this install for others to laugh (Seriously... Go for it! :-), but hopefully to not make the same mistakes that I either made, or COULD have made. (Learning from others mistakes is always LESS painful... :-) )
They give a very good reference for the wire color coding, however I found on my 2015, the Brake Light was brown (I think) with an orange (or red?) stripe (I'm partially color blind). Everything else was spot on!
With that said... MAKE A DIAGRAM. Keep in mind that the Triple Play unit has an INPUT side (Red Heat Shrink tape on that bundle) and an OUTPUT side (Black Heat Shrink). NOTATE these differences on your diagram. (Yes... I soldered the wrong "Brown lead" at first... )
If you are making your connections under the seat, the connector that you are probably looking for is JUST ahead of the cross member, next to the relay box, on the RIGHT side of the bike. It is grey (or "gray").
To give yourself a little more "elbow room", disconnect it AND the black connector underneath it.
(Remove the 2-3 cable straps that are screwed to the bike.)
CAREFULLY guide the 2 bundles and their connectors rearward under the cross member.
Unwrap the tape from the grey connector to where it joins the next bundle.
IF you are soldering your connections, check your wiring diagram BEFORE you start.
Check your wiring BEFORE you solder.
Check your wiring AFTER you solder.
(By the way... You DID put Heat Shrink tubing on the wires BEFORE you soldered.... Right???)
If you have the lights out of the lenses, but plugged in and youa re ready to test them... Put something OVER THEM to dim them.... Otherwise your eyeballs may retreat in agony only to be retrieved by a proctologist... (Yes... they ARE bright and you will lose the ability to see detail for a while if you happen to be looking directly at them when they come on. Don't be an idiot... ;-) (Yes... I am... Thank you very much! :-) )
If you have hooked everything up, and you have FOLLOWED the instructions and you have your LED's in place, go for the test! :-)
Whoops! Something isn't 'right? Your center tail lights light up and BOTH turn signals flash no matter which one you select?
You flipped the bulbs around for the center lights and now THEY don't light up, but now the turn signals work?
You've gone through and identified WHICH set of contacts on the lights need to go to "ground" and which need to be powered individually and you have made sure that ALL of your bulbs have been installed correctly...
Did you check your wiring?
Did you check ALL of it?
Did you happen to connect the orange an blue wires to the SECOND "accessory Screw' in the fuse block?
Not the top one, but the one below it?
The one that happens to be CONNECTED to GROUND????
Um... Yeah....
I NEVER would have thought that someone would have put a NEGATIVE connection in a fuse block....
Moved it up to the POSITIVE connector and VIOLA!!!!! We've got CORRECT lighting! :-)
(Don't ask how much time I spent trouble shooting before I found this with a multi meter... DOH!!!!)
Good luck!
"How many screws"? (I couls SOOO be a smart butt here... ;-) )
I'm kind of curious as to what they mean because I just finished installing this (I used the Universal unit). and it works fine. ;-)
Joel.
Attachment 20412Ok!
As outlined in previous posts, This is an AWESOME visibility upgrade!
("Do these flashing lights make my butt look big?")
I am also a bit um... "persnickety" when it comes to my wiring. I'm not a fan of any type of "simple quickie wire splicing thingies". "Strip, Iron, Solder, Wrap", HOWEVER... That is JUST me. :-)
With that said, I wanted to put for some of my "Points of Experience" with this install for others to laugh (Seriously... Go for it! :-), but hopefully to not make the same mistakes that I either made, or COULD have made. (Learning from others mistakes is always LESS painful... :-) )
They give a very good reference for the wire color coding, however I found on my 2015, the Brake Light was brown (I think) with an orange (or red?) stripe (I'm partially color blind). Everything else was spot on!
With that said... MAKE A DIAGRAM. Keep in mind that the Triple Play unit has an INPUT side (Red Heat Shrink tape on that bundle) and an OUTPUT side (Black Heat Shrink). NOTATE these differences on your diagram. (Yes... I soldered the wrong "Brown lead" at first... )
If you are making your connections under the seat, the connector that you are probably looking for is JUST ahead of the cross member, next to the relay box, on the RIGHT side of the bike. It is grey (or "gray").
To give yourself a little more "elbow room", disconnect it AND the black connector underneath it.
(Remove the 2-3 cable straps that are screwed to the bike.)
CAREFULLY guide the 2 bundles and their connectors rearward under the cross member.
Unwrap the tape from the grey connector to where it joins the next bundle.
IF you are soldering your connections, check your wiring diagram BEFORE you start.
Check your wiring BEFORE you solder.
Check your wiring AFTER you solder.
(By the way... You DID put Heat Shrink tubing on the wires BEFORE you soldered.... Right???)
If you have the lights out of the lenses, but plugged in and youa re ready to test them... Put something OVER THEM to dim them.... Otherwise your eyeballs may retreat in agony only to be retrieved by a proctologist... (Yes... they ARE bright and you will lose the ability to see detail for a while if you happen to be looking directly at them when they come on. Don't be an idiot... ;-) (Yes... I am... Thank you very much! :-) )
If you have hooked everything up, and you have FOLLOWED the instructions and you have your LED's in place, go for the test! :-)
Whoops! Something isn't 'right? Your center tail lights light up and BOTH turn signals flash no matter which one you select?
You flipped the bulbs around for the center lights and now THEY don't light up, but now the turn signals work?
You've gone through and identified WHICH set of contacts on the lights need to go to "ground" and which need to be powered individually and you have made sure that ALL of your bulbs have been installed correctly...
Did you check your wiring?
Did you check ALL of it?
Did you happen to connect the orange an blue wires to the SECOND "accessory Screw' in the fuse block?
Not the top one, but the one below it?
The one that happens to be CONNECTED to GROUND????
Um... Yeah....
I NEVER would have thought that someone would have put a NEGATIVE connection in a fuse block....
Moved it up to the POSITIVE connector and VIOLA!!!!! We've got CORRECT lighting! :-)
(Don't ask how much time I spent trouble shooting before I found this with a multi meter... DOH!!!!
Good luck!
Help me out here...where are we starting...
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