Which resistor/relay for LED indicators?

[mpsricky]

Hi Guys,

Have been looking at bulb indicators and led indicators. Was just curious to see for those of you who have upgraded to led what resistors/relays did u use/find best??

Thanks
Ricky

[dkid]

Flasher fix relay is easiest option. 5 min job as its plug and play. No fiddly resistors to wire and no added heat. Does what it says on the tin and corrects flash rate.
Do a search on here, I remember a few threads on this from the last few months or so & they'll have links to the relay you need on ebay.

[mpsricky]

something like this be easiest plug and play:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180869348480&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_1351wt_1044

[Jayneflakes]

I went on line and bought some Resistors of the right type and wired them in myself, I think that they came from an electronics supplier, but can't remember now. Anyway, very easy to do because they wire in parallel with the LED lights, just make sure that you wire the LEDs the right way around or they wont flash!

Unless you buy very high quality super bright LEDs, they tend to be less bright than bulbs. I had a set of Oxford Neptune LED indis on the back of mine, but as soon as I fitted my panniers, they pretty much disappeared. Old fashioned filament lamps may not be as cool, but they do work a treat.

[MJC-DEV]

As above, unless you pay good money for quality LEDs they will be less bright than good old bulbs. You may still need a small (bias) resistor each side if you get the indicator repeaters on the dash on slightly due to the LED flash relay type used.
Having said that I went for white LED bulbs in the OEM indicators but went for £8 each Japanese branded ones which are as bright as bulbs.

[big jc]

I have just done mine, I bought the relay from suzuki but it just caused the indicators to cut out about 1.5k revs so i went and bought a motrax solid state relay from halfords £20 but just a case of poping 2 wires out from the relay and putting into the controller, there is a thread on here with instructions. The bit from halfords says its is for Honda or kwak but it is universal.

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=84870&highlight=Motrax+relay

[dkid]

Correct relay shouldn't give any problems. I used same as this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400250124203?redirect=mobile

[mpsricky]

the connectors on my front indicators are different from the back ones, is this normal??

front connectors are ICL003 - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261015054664?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_500wt_715

back connectors are ICL004 - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370609388625?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_500wt_715