Load Equalizers
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I've seen alot of questions about LED blink rate vs Standard bulbs on bikes, (and autos).

For those of you that wish to change out your bulbs with LEDs the simple solution for keeping the blink rate correct is to use 6 ohm / 50 watt resistor from the bulb hot lead to ground.

On our bikes you would splice one resistor into the Brown lead, (under the seat), to ground and the second resistor to the Green lead to ground.

Running a resistor for each electrical side of the bike will reduce the risk of overheat and wire burn out.

Be advised though that load equilizers, (resistors), do get warm to hot since they are simply shunts to ground. The higher the wattage of the resistor the cooler it will be when in use.

The other way to correct the fast rate blink problem is to use a solid state replacement flasher. The only drawback to this is that it does away with your auto-cancel and you must cancel the turn signal after your turn.

I have no problem with this since this is the first bike I've owned that has auto-cancel. I'm in the habit of turning off the signal manually after I make a turn anyway.

Both Load Resistors and Solid State Flasher replacements are available all over the internet, just do a simple search and you'll come up with lots of hits.

V52
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Also see:   Load Equalizers 2
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