I'm installing the Soft Brake license plate relocation kit on my '12 Deluxe along with a Custom Dynamics license plate frame.

The problem I am having is the when wired neither the tail, existing license plate, or new led lights work. I have the ground spliced into the black ground wire that is mounted to the housing. And the power is spliced to the license plate light wire.

Does anyone know whats going on here?

Thanks

 

can you post a picture? I'm trying to see what you did with that ground.
maybe the way the new housing is mounted isn't a good ground path...

the existing license plate wiring should have had two wires - power and a ground.
are you saying you didn't use that ground wire, and instead just tied it to the housing?

 

Without actually going back out to the garage to look at it, it's hard for me to remember exactly how it's laid out, but I wired mine the same way he described, splicing my LED frame's ground wire into the same ground wire the tail/brake light uses, which connects to a copper ground inside the tombstone assembly. I'm pretty sure that there wasn't two wires in the harness running to the original plate bulb, otherwise I would have just gone ahead with a simple cut and splice instead of tying it into the same ground the tail light was using.

In any case, I know that when I wired mine this way it worked without any problems. When you wire something and stuff ends up not working always check your fuses first, then your wires to make sure nothing is pinched, then your battery connections. Just get the multimeter and see where you're getting power and where you aren't.

I'm far from a guru with wiring/electric, but I know when I did my frame it was a pretty simple job, I'm sure if you poke around with the basics you'll probably figure it out fairly quickly.

 

I used these when installing my custom dynamics frame.

http://www.posi-lock.com/posiplug.html

They worked like a charm. Black license frame wire to ground wire that grounds on the fender and white wire to the wire that is running to the small light socket that lights the stock plate position. If still not working check your fuse.

 

Thanks for the link. Those are the connectors that came with my C.D. kit and I loved them, and I wanted to get more... now I know.

 

I'll get a picture, but I have wired it how others have described.

I know its not a fuse because if I disconnect the led frame everything works again. The lights short when I connect the power wire for the frame.

I will break everything down and check for a break in that wire.

 

Is the plate frame installed on the bike? If so unbolt the frame from the bike and see if it works.

 

The reason I asked was because running the ground to just the frame isn't necessarily the same as running it to the light.

 

So I removed the frame from the Soft Brake bracket and everything works. Tried grounding the bracket to the same wire with no luck. Should I try grounding to the frame, or make a plastic buffer between the bracket and license plate frame?

 

Any suggestions on the best way to ground the SoftBrake bracket?