LED resistors for indicators

right you guys need of your help. after changing my back lights to a led set up indicators flash quickly. so ive got a pair of resistor to fit in to the wiring. each resitor has 4 cables (2 each side of the resistor) so any help would be welcomed

I brought led's and resistors a while ago never got round to fitting them though i did test them on bike and basically they just go between the indicator and the loom so the 2 that come from the indicator go into 1 side of the resistor and the 2 from the loom which would usually join the indicator to the loom go into the other 2 cables.

I do recal though it was not the obvious 2 cables that come out the same side that went to the loom or the indicatar from what I remember it was one cable from each side goes to an indicator and same for loom.

Hope this helps its quite easy to do and i dont think I did any damage when i wired it up wrong i think I tripped something a few times so just turned the bike off and then on again and all was ok. The most your going to do is blow a fuse. easy replacment. Hope this helps

i take it that it don't matter between earth and live from the resistor

if you hook it up and it works, I imagine you have your earth to earth and yours live to live?

yeah should be fine, if it goes bang it goes bang. and i can start all over again

led resistor Hi Lez just been to google and found this hope it helps

cheers alfie will use that plan, whats confuse's me is the ones i've got have two wires on each side of the resistor

I think 2 cables each side these are your options.

oh heck....looks like a headache coming on....plus shouting, swearing, and throwing things this weekend then.........

Yeah but you will feel great when you have done it

true so true......it's the striping down of the rear end to access the wiring loom is the pig, lowering the rear ain't all that cracked up to be..

i tried led's on my xjr they turned out to be such a pain in the arse that i went back to the oridgional indicators.

yeah getting that same feeling here, started flickering now......

Lez just a thought (I don't know) but if you look at the resistor as being a double pole ie:one resistor for both indicators,then it would fit just the live side of each indicator acting like an inline fuse.It might be something to consider.

good point, cheer's alfie

been playing around with the diagramme of bone, but ive only got one lead to each indicator........so stuck again

eh! you are using a resistor for each indicator?

If you've only got one lead going into the LED then the earth is made through the metal body of the indicator. When I did this I just bought a two pole relay and disconnected the integrated one that's causing these problems. No resistors required and about £8 on ebay...

yep two indicators two resitors...jasMK have you got the link to that part you used..

Sure, here you go
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/350435021018?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

Its a 10 minute job and works perfect

Hi just contacted Mr Intruder (Dave) and he has just phoned "Doc Cox" to pop on site and give some advice.

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Hi Lez, have just read through and you say you only have one wire to each indicator so this means you have one power lead that goes to the bulb and the body of the bulb will go to earth, what you will need to do is put a resistor from your posotive lead and then to earth to complete the circuit, led,s have a very low resistance and the flasher module can,t sense enough resistance and will flash quicker, did the resistors and bulbs come as a kit, can you let know what colours or writing is on the resistors please, if you have a meter it is easy to check the resistanceand then just get a normal resistor with two leads, regards Doc Cox

cheers doc will check this out over the next few days as dont wont to try at the moment as im doing the ride of respect on sunday in your wonderful town of royal wootton bassett.

this is written on the resitor 12v25n8 (upside down c) j with two red wires each side

Have just had a look at the flasher control unit on ebay that Jason gave us the link to and it looks like this unit is made to sense the low current draw of led,s and should be a straight plug and play operation, Doc Cox

thanks doc going to give that a try

just would like to thank every body whos giving me advise on this

well that didnt work, 2 pin relay sent to me and i've got a 6 pin relay on the bike.....?

Bloody hell these led's are turning out to be mighty complicated

That was a bit of a blow, bear with me trying to find out what size resistors are needed, regards Doc Cox

standard indicators are looking so good right now

are all the problems because the indercators youv chose are leds just wondering because if i change mine in the future ill just look at ones that arent leds if this will make it easyer to do

Hi Doobie

That relay also contains the side stand kill switch. That is why it is a 6 wire.



If you remove the wires from terminals F (Light Blue) and G (Brown) you can connect them to the 2 wire relay that you have. You may have to cut the wires and replace the terminals though.

On top of that I just found this site http://www.bugmanweb.com/gsxr/flasher.html You'll notice that as it is a Suzuki he is talking about it uses the same flasher/kickstand relay that we use.

As far as your resistors go I would have a go at them with a multimeter if you wanted to go that way. What you have is wire wound inductors judging by the part number that you quoted. If you use a meter you should find approximately 10 ohms resistance between pairs of wires, basically 2 resistors in one package. I suspect that your resistor is meant to be inserted at a common point in your wiring, i.e. before it splits out to individual indicators in the tail light assembly. You should be able to slice one end of each resistor to the indicator and wire the other end to a suitable ground point. It should be light Green for Right, Black for Left and Black/White for ground.

Just did a quick ebay search and guess what I found?????????????

Yep you guessed right, just what your after

This is what you need, its plug and play E-Bay LINK

captain crash wrote:

Just did a quick ebay search and guess what I found?????????????

Yep you guessed right, just what your after

This is what you need, its plug and play E-Bay LINK

Good find Crash, well done

great ideas chaps, but no way am i letting this go its only delayed success......back to the garage slagman....i may be a while

doobie wrote:

great ideas chaps, but no way am i letting this go its only delayed success......back to the garage slagman....i may be a while

Now theres a man not to have an argumenent with, thats a serious case of digging the heels in

Mind you if Lez is anything like his picture I wouldn;t argue anyway ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Good luck Lez, I hope you win

CC, glad i look nowt like that picture...but i will not let anything beat me, like i said its only delayed success

I like your style Lez, You gotta beat it now mate. As that was a declaration of war

WELL ALL I CAN SAY IS......THE WAR IS OVER AND I'VE BEATEN THEM BLOODY INDICATORS INTO SUBMISSION. used the relay that jasmk(thanks mate), traced the wire's that needed to e cut and hey presto bob's your aunty

once again THANKS TO ALL THAT HELPED....just would'nt be SUZUKI800.COM without you

Well done glad you did it

Glad to hear you have sorted it but if anyone is going to put these on in future it would probably be the easiest way to do it by popping in the plug and play adapter I posted the other day

CC that was my next option, my mate done his with a 7 pin plug and play but didnt say nowt untill yesterday (have not seen him for a while). but didnt want to spend any more. there is a uk supplier for them i'll have to get the ebay number of him. it was easy enough though once i traced the wire's out of the relay

The 7 pin is what I and you would advise someone to get if they hadn't bought anything yet but all credit to you for your percaverance. Maybe Mr I should give you a special title like he did for Peter

CC thats a defo on that one, but you only find out by trying and if you don't try you won't find out....