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Wiring LED plate bolts

Just did my under tail today and put these on, wired them up nice and easy and it has a very nice light effect. I got a set from Kapsco, good price but my only issue was the guage of wire used is too thin, I'd of preferred a heaver guage wire to make the soldering and stripping of the wire easier.
 
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ScoTTY88 said:
Just did my under tail today and put these on, wired them up nice and easy and it has a very nice light effect. I got a set from Kapsco, good price but my only issue was the guage of wire used is too thin, I'd of preferred a heaver guage wire to make the soldering and stripping of the wire easier.
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they all use the same thin gauge wire. unfortunately
 
where can i buy these lights in the GTA? i need to make my own fender eliminator kit, since there is no way im spending 200 bucks on a thin piece of metal and a light.
 
k'2 said:
where can i buy these lights in the GTA? i need to make my own fender eliminator kit, since there is no way im spending 200 bucks on a thin piece of metal and a light.
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Cycle world Superstore has 'em.
Royal Distributing has them as well.

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I've had those on my bike for the last 3 years. One of my bolts just blew so I have to replace them now.
 
strictlye said:
I've had those on my bike for the last 3 years. One of my bolts just blew so I have to replace them now.
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are you sure it blew? i was working on a R6 a few weeks ago, and the very thin gauge wire got cut.
 
shows how much i know about this, i thought you could just wire it to the battery! So if the bike already has an undertail and flashers built into the undertail like mine, di i have to find the thw taillight wire and tap into that? would this samne process apply if it was just an led bar?
 
Unless you want your license plate lamp to be on ALL the time (even when the bike is off!) and draining your battery in the process ... you need to feed these from switched power. Unless you want your wiring job to be a fire hazard, it needs to be a fused circuit. The easiest source of fused, switched power in that area of the bike ... is the existing wiring to the bike's original-equipment license plate lamp! Failing that, the tail lamp (NOT the brake lamp) is the next best choice. Normally the tail lamp power is the same circuit as the license plate lamp anyway.
 
Well i definately dont want it on all the time, lol. So if the original marker light isnt even attached to the bike anymore, i would just have to find those wires inder the seat and splice into that and it would work?
So if there is one red and black for each light, would i just tie each one one into the positive on the original marker light wire and then tie the black into the ground or black of the same wire?
Also, when tied in, does that mean just take off the housing and wrap it around that wire and heat shrink it back?
 
ajaxguy said:
Also, when tied in, does that mean just take off the housing and wrap it around that wire and heat shrink it back?
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NO, you are asking for trouble.

Strip the ends of both wires (bike wiring-harness side and the LED plate-bolt side), slip a piece of shrink wrap over one of the wires, *solder* the wires together, slide the shrink wrap over the solder joint then heat-shrink it on.

One thing to keep in mind with these plate bolts is that the wire has to pass through the license plate and the plate bracket, then fed through the chassis to wherever it has to go. If you solder/shrink wrap to make a permanent connection ... you cannot unbolt and remove the license plate without unsoldering (preferably) or cutting (butcher) the wiring! And you need to have it all assembled, including the plate bracket and the license plate, before you make the wiring connections, because otherwise you can't put it together afterwards.

The right way to do this is to connect the plate-bolt side of each wire to a male bullet connector and put a female insulated bullet connector on each wire on the bike side, so it can be unplugged and fed through the holes if necessary. I tried doing it "the right way" with mine ... but the wiring to these plate bolts is so fine that it breaks at less force than it takes to pull the bullet connector apart! So much for that idea.
 
What are you talking about.

License plate illumination in the HTA is required to be WHITE. Not red.

YES, there are some motorcycle (and trailer) tail lamps that are designed to also illuminate the license plate ... and they have a *clear* opening in them specifically to allow *white* light from the bulb to illuminate the license plate.
 
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