leo3wheel

Congrats Chuck!! Had almost the exact same length of service, 37 years 6 months. It's scary leaving a job that you've had for so many years, but you will find it's all good. You'll have so many things to do that you'll wonder how you ever had time for your job. LOL! Best wishes for a bright future!

Okay, all trike lights are LED, except dash lights. Not sure flasher mod or load equalizers are necessary for turn signals. Looks okay to me, and leaves motorcycle with standard flasher. On to next project...

Will do Dennis.

Wow! That would rain on my parade!

Play Time!

Okay, resistors are here. Just need the LED's.

Big Lenny, Have traveled out west on bus tours and by car multiple times. In 2014, Jeannette and I toured the Southwest and visited 9 national parks by car. In 2015, we toured the Northwest, Alberta, British Columbia and cruised Alaska. Whole time I was out there, kept saying to Jeannette that I would love to be here with my motorcycle. Well, the time is here, and I agree that traveling out west is very spiritual! First time I saw Monument Valley, my jaw was on the ground! We were at Canon City and Royal Gorge back in 2014, when we did the Southwest tour by car. We joined a motorcycle rally in a rental cage. We rented a KOA cabin near Royal Gorge. This time I will be on motorcycle and tenting with fellow bikers. Will be one big party for two weeks!

Well, turns out I will be joining Joe_in_WV, Brake Pad and others in Southwest. After Freebird's MD, will ride to Canon City, CO to meet up with the others. 2017 Grand Canyon Tour Jun 15 at 5 PM to Jun 29 at 8 AM MDT Canon City, Colorado

Joe, Hope you folks have a great time on your Grand Canyon tour. Wish I could go, but I have concerns about camping and trailering my trike. Thanks! Leo

She's flying to NH to visit her sister while I'm away.

Thanks Mike! Waiting for parts to come in.

Have been working on my RSV trike in anticipation of traveling to the Northwest after Don's MD. Have a bunch of states that I would like to visit. As they say, who knows what tomorrow will bring, so do it now. Not into camping, so will be staying at motels along the way.

Ordered resistor to perform flasher mod.

Steve, Flasher mod looks like a great way to go. Had the flasher in hand but couldn't open it. I was concerned about damaging it. Now I have a dilemma. Please hold off on sending me the aux harness. I'll take another look at the flasher to see if I can make sense of it. Thanks!

Happy Anniversary Larry and Joyce! Wish you many more...

All parts ordered...

Hi Steve, Does not appear to be a flasher mod for Gen 2. Don't see any 5-pin flasher relays with compatible pinout. Will use the load equalizer with your Gen 2 harness. Sent you email. Thanks, Leo

Thanks Steve! If I choose to go the flasher mod route, can someone give me a part #/ source. Thanks!

Okay, now understand where aux harness is attached. Trike has LED taillights/turn signals and light bulb front running lights/turn signals. Not sure if rear is isolated from front. Wonder if load equalizers are required by front turn signals. Guess I could order the LED's and try them without the load. Unsure?

Joe, Thanks for documenting the wire functions. Will help with my turn signal LED conversion.

Bob, You were a great teacher at last MD. Now considering changing turn signals to combination LED turn signals/driving lights. If you want to install yours at MD, just let me know.

Steve, This is a great idea! Do you have a pic showing where aux harness would be inserted? Thanks!

Have to pull my seat and tank anyway, so I'll see what I can do. Since I have a trike, there is no metal fender, but should be able to find some metal. Thanks Bert!

Custom Dynamics makes LED replacement for turn signals that allows them to function as both turn signals and driving lights. Switching from light bulbs to LED's affects the blinker rate. To correct this, Custom Dynamics recommends a load equalizer, 7.5 ohms to ground on each light. They caution that unit gets hot, and recommend that unit be mounted under seat. Any suggestions on how to locate unit under seat and tie into signal wires with the posi-locks? Thanks! "Universal 7.5 Ohm* Metric Turn Signal* Load Equalizer w/ connectors *Simple locate the turn signal wires and snap into place with the supplied connectors. The load equalizer produces and equivalent load of a 7.5 ohms (1.9 amps @ 14VDC), therefore the unit will get* hot. Caution: This load equalizer will get hot, please mount accordingly. Suggested Mounting - Under seat securely mounted to frame rail. Installation: Connection one purple to left turn, remaining purple to right turn, black to ground. Posi-locks are included for quick connections. One load equalizer is needed for each pair of turn signal that are replaced with LEDs on most Metrics."

How about converting turn signals into driving lights. Need to investigate this more.