The Everything Fat Bob Thread
4th Gear
Joined: Feb 2020
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From: Colorado
Beautiful bike. Particularly the license plate relocation. I'm attempting to do the same; I'm using the Custom Dynamics brackets and rounded frame with LED lights in the license plate frame. QUESTION: I'm not sure how to wire the two wires that come from the LED frame. One white, one black. The OE wires from the stock Fat Bob are black and black. Can I just splice the wires in any order? White to black and black to black? Anyone else instal the Custom Dynamics LED plate to a Fat Bob?
Intermediate
Joined: Jul 2019
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From: Napa, CA
Beautiful bike. Particularly the license plate relocation. I'm attempting to do the same; I'm using the Custom Dynamics brackets and rounded frame with LED lights in the license plate frame. QUESTION: I'm not sure how to wire the two wires that come from the LED frame. One white, one black. The OE wires from the stock Fat Bob are black and black. Can I just splice the wires in any order? White to black and black to black? Anyone else instal the Custom Dynamics LED plate to a Fat Bob?
I don't remember the wires being only black, but you can always turn the bike on and use a voltmeter to see which one has a positive voltage to ground and tie the white wire to that one.
If you don't have a voltmeter, then test it with the plate before you solder the wires together. It will only work one way. Mark your wires with electrical tape when you figure it out.
Stage I
Joined: Jul 2019
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From: Massachusetts
I don't remember the wires being only black, but you can always turn the bike on and use a voltmeter to see which one has a positive voltage to ground and tie the white wire to that one.
If you don't have a voltmeter, then test it with the plate before you solder the wires together. It will only work one way. Mark your wires with electrical tape when you figure it out.
If you don't have a voltmeter, then test it with the plate before you solder the wires together. It will only work one way. Mark your wires with electrical tape when you figure it out.
4th Gear
Joined: Feb 2020
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From: Colorado
I also thought there was a black wire, and a black with some strip color on it. It's been a while sence I did my license plate relocation. Also careful assuming white is ground. Just did that with an led myself and could not figure out why it wasn't coming coming on. Swapped black to power white to ground and led works. First time I have seen a black be power on a 12vdc light.
As you can see in the attached photo, the black plug with two black wires are what leads to the license plate light. Both wires are black.
Cruiser
Joined: Jan 2019
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From: Las Vegas
Look at the wires coming out the other side of that plug and you will know which one is power and which is ground. Or look on moco website, the electrical diagrams are all on there.
Stellar HDF Member
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From: East Flanders - Belgium
I answered in the other post you did about the licenseplate light, just connect the wires, if not working turn them around, the led will not be damaged. Or use a multimeter to see what is the + and connect that to the white
and the other to the black, that's it.
and the other to the black, that's it.
Road Warrior
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From: Santa Fe NM
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