LED Headlight Issue...NEED HELP! ('95 Road King)
Road Warrior
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Gotcha. Fingers crossed when I put in the load equalizer (from Custom Dynamics) it fixes the issue. I ordered two thinking I'd need one for the front and one for the rear, but thats awesome if you're telling me a single unit can potentially fix the entire circuit! From what I was reading, the load equalizer gets installed up stream of the turn signals, so I was assuming a load equalizer would be needed between the signal flasher and each set of signals (front/rear).
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
There are a bunch of different ways to do this.
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The front and rear are the same circuit for each side.
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6th Gear
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From: VA
Gotcha. Thanks!
I ordered a shop manual to troubleshoot, but dont have it on me yet. I figured there were two circuits either front/rear or left/right. Hoping if I fix the signal issue, the headlamp issue gets better, but not sure. Only saying that because it's an intermittent issue, and I'm hoping not to have to chase the rabbit to get it to work.
I ordered a shop manual to troubleshoot, but dont have it on me yet. I figured there were two circuits either front/rear or left/right. Hoping if I fix the signal issue, the headlamp issue gets better, but not sure. Only saying that because it's an intermittent issue, and I'm hoping not to have to chase the rabbit to get it to work.
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6th Gear
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From: VA
Perfect! Yep, I've got two (2) LE's coming in to fix my signal problem (not 2 sets), and i bench tested both the low and high beams on the headlight, but no dice on the highbeam when installed. Gonna test the plug with a voltmeter tonight.
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I had a new bulb that the bulb wires on the H4 connector were wrong, simple fix.
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6th Gear
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From: VA
FIXED
I guess I got myself twisted with my turn signals not working correctly and learning I had to install Load Equalizers (just another thing....) to fix the issue and I blew this up and made more of it than it was. Last night I removed the headlight and multi-metered the headlight plug. I was only seeing 10/11 VDC. I was like...WTF...I should be getting battery voltage...why the power drop? I pulled my seat and checked the battery....damn 10.xx VDC......sombitch!
I've had this bike apart for the past two weeks adding stretched bags, a Bluetooth stereo, air ride, slip-ons, changing over to LED's....testing everything as I went....slowly draining my damn battery and just not paying attention.
The HIGHBEAM (I'm assuming) wouldn't come on, or would only work intermittently by playing with the switch (handlebar)...because some dumb a** wasn't paying attention. New battery this afternoon, and we should be golden.
Thanks to all you guys for the comments and feedback.
I guess I got myself twisted with my turn signals not working correctly and learning I had to install Load Equalizers (just another thing....) to fix the issue and I blew this up and made more of it than it was. Last night I removed the headlight and multi-metered the headlight plug. I was only seeing 10/11 VDC. I was like...WTF...I should be getting battery voltage...why the power drop? I pulled my seat and checked the battery....damn 10.xx VDC......sombitch!
I've had this bike apart for the past two weeks adding stretched bags, a Bluetooth stereo, air ride, slip-ons, changing over to LED's....testing everything as I went....slowly draining my damn battery and just not paying attention.
The HIGHBEAM (I'm assuming) wouldn't come on, or would only work intermittently by playing with the switch (handlebar)...because some dumb a** wasn't paying attention. New battery this afternoon, and we should be golden.
Thanks to all you guys for the comments and feedback.
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So getting 12+V to the lights made them come on / stay on? I am installing the same lights (Sunpie?) on a 93 electraglide. Same issue, Low will come on and then go out after a second or two. High wont come on. I'm thinking (hoping) that the issue is that I am testing off pure battery, not while running.
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So getting 12+V to the lights made them come on / stay on? I am installing the same lights (Sunpie?) on a 93 electraglide. Same issue, Low will come on and then go out after a second or two. High wont come on. I'm thinking (hoping) that the issue is that I am testing off pure battery, not while running.