Hey everyone, I hope someone here can lend some guidance... I bought a new to me 94 Heritage after low siding my Sportster last month. Long story short, I sold the Sporty to a buddy of mine, and with his money and what I got out of the insurance company, I bought this Heritage. I did suffer a separated shoulder in the wreck, so I've not yet been able to ride my new to me bike, but in true guy fashion, I couldn't leave well enough alone. I bought a bunch of stuff and have been tinkering in the garage swapping out the stock tail light for a smoked LED lay down style light, and I swapped all of the amber turn signal bulbs out in favor of smoked lenses and LEDs. Now that leads me to my issue. I've got load equalizers, and I'm prepared to install them, but I don't know what the best place to put them is. I've found my turn signal module under the dash, but I don't have a schematic that'll show me which wires are which under the dash. I'd like to just buy the plug and play LED compliant module, and I would have, but it'd be ANOTHER $90 to buy, and the missus is already kinda resentful of the time and money I've spent thus far.

So, those of you that are running LED signal lights... Where is the best place to wire the load equalizers into the signal lamp circuit? How many equalizers do I need, one or two? Any chance someone has pics of their install laying around somewhere?

Thanks for helping out a NOOB!

BTW, here's a pic...

 

Welcome to the forum. I think your ride is sweet looking. I would hide them under the splash guard of the rear wheel. Your bike is pre 1996 so it will have room there.
Tom

 

Under the splash guard of the rear wheel... In front of the rear wheel? I'm sure I can swing that, not a terrible place either. Any idea which wires I need to tap into for the install? I'm ready to quit tinkering and start riding!

 

Not from memory but look at it this way, undo the right directional and record the color. Do the same for the left. Do the same in the tail light but you're adding a lay down plate so you'll be doing that anyways.
There's oodles of room in between the tanks for the fronts or a lot in the neck area too.

 

I just did a lay dow style tail light, plate is still sticking straight up. I gotcha on the rear wiring though... just gotta find 'em. Thanks!

 

Hi Ziggy, great looking bike! You say 'load equalisers', but just what do you have? I have LED lights as well and you only need an equalizer for the indicators, as your current flasher unit needs to be fooled to work with the much lower power LEDs. Your tail/brake light will work fine as it is. I installed my Badlands unit under the seat, wired into the rear indicator's wiring.

 

What I've got is a set of LED amber signal lights that I hard wired to the bike. The LED boards have three wires, labled ground, run, stop. In the rear, I ran the "run" wire to the rear fender tip light wire, the "stop" wire to the rear signal lamp wire, and I ran the ground wire to the body of the signal lamp housing. When I purchased the lights, I had also bought an LED tail light which had integrated turn signals. Amazon packaged up all the lights into one box with a pair of ceramic 2 wire resistors. I understand the principle of adding resistance to the circuit to fool the flasher module, just not sure where to do it. Do I need a resistor for each individual light? One for each side? Can I run to Radio Shack and find something smaller that'll fit inside the housings with the LED boards?

 

Ah, sounds a bit more complicated than I anticipated! Am I right that you have wired the indicators as both flashers and brake lights? Also your brake light has both flashers and brake (plus tail)? I would guess you need an equaliser in the wire that feeds the left flashing light and another for the right side. They will need to be wired in before any splits you have made between the various light units, so under the seat would be a good place. Hopefully someone else will chime in!

 

I'm beginning to lean more and more toward purchasing the Badlands LE-01 Load Equalizer... I just don't think the ceramic resistors are going to cut it for me. Good news though is that the LE-01 appears to be pretty affordable on Amazon.

 

I've actually ordered two tail lights for the bike. The first one I ordered had the integrated turn signals, but I wasn't paying close enough attention, and bought the wrong one. Started modifying it to fit my tail light base before I realized there wasn't enough modification that I could do to make it fit. Bought another smoked LED tail light that did not contain the integrated turn signals - didn't need 'em anyway because I was keeping the large flat signals. Suppose if the $25 Load Equalizer from Badlands will rectify the issue, it'll be worth not cobbing up the wire harness with "make do" resistors.