Load equalizers

[mista_max]

Hi I changed my stock flashers for LEDs. Solved the flash rate problem by adding load equalizers. The problem I have now is that if I activate the flashers when the head light is off the LEDs operate normally and all the LEDs in the flasher are lit. As soon as I put up the kick stand and head light comes on only 4 of the 12 LEDs are lit bright and the rest are either off or very dim. Would I need to change the load equalizer resistance?


thanks

Max

 

[MaxMidnight]

What value resistors did you use and where did you put them (i.e. which wires)?

Sound like have a a wire in the wrong place (on the bike I mean!)

 

[jfeagins]

My headlight is on all the time - unless the starter button is being depressed - and has nothing to do with the side stand switch. Are Canadian Maxes different?

 

[one2dmax]

Sounds like the switch is sticking and it's actually drawing current or trying to ground through the opposite set of signals (which is common too and why a in line splice should be used). We sell the Kuryakyn splice fixes (about $8 if I remember correctly) to get the left and right sides segregated so they won't act as hazards!

Sean

 

[mista_max]

My head light only comes on if mysidestand is up I also have and additional head light relay ( been there since i bought the bike form previous owner)

the laod equalizer I'm using is something like this one http://www.maxxima.com/products/product_detail/226/M50905-3-Pin%20LED%20Load%20Equalizer/view/.html# except i did not have the connectors atached . Connected one red wire to the blinker red and the other to green/brown and one black to the blinker black and the other to the ground. I think the value for the resistor was 5 or 6 Ohms.

Sean I'm not sure i follow what you mean withth einlie splice.

 

[one2dmax]

Sorry, they call it a Diode Kit: http://www.kuryakyn.com/Products/719/Diode-Kit

 

[Nielsen]

You can take the bulb out of the instrument to see if the problem disappears. If it do, you have to use the diode kit. (Bulb no.8)