Have not measured it, but does one still save much current when load resisters have to be used for LED lights?

 

If you need resistors as a load balancer you are obviously working with an older bike.

In order for the flasher to work properly it must have a certain flow of current, and since the LED consumes very little current you must make up for that by adding another path for current to flow back to ground (with a resistor).

There is no power being saved with this setup.

 

No power being saved but being brighter it may save something more important

 

Dan89FLSTC is correct; load equalizers/resistors just put extra load on the turn signal circuits and convert that electricity to heat. No power is saved, but you do get to use LEDs, which are brighter.

Our plug and play Smart Signal Stabilizers will also allow you to use LEDs, but they recycle about 90% the additional power back to the battery. They accomplish the same thing as the load equalizer, but in a completely different manner, meaning they don't heat up or waste nearly as much electricity.

 

The only issue I have seen is the 4 ways, they set both signal codes because the stabilizer goes into sleep mode, but once out of 4 ways the code resets.

 

that is not the case< in generality:
1157 incandescent @ 1.8 amps X 4 = 7.2 amps total
using my circuit which handle the whole machine and can be installed at the tsm with no soldering:
basically 5 ohms total resistance @ 12vdc (ref only) = 2.4amps
led 1157 equivalent @ .4 = 1.6 amps total
my circuit with led load = 4 amps
7.2 amps minus 4 amps is 3.2 amps savings.
these are intermittent circuits, aka, not on all the time so draw and heating is reduced
explains why you can leave the 4 ways on for hours past if you just left the lights on all the time.
my circuit does not produce very much heat, you can leave it on for a long time and barely tell any heat above ambient and that is with 4 ways, regular turns less.

forgot to add, you can build it for less than 10 dollars us.

 

This is true; it's a safety feature and prevents the Signal Stabilizer from drawing any power at all when the hazards are running.