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Old Mar 27, 2013 | 07:49 AM
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Stay away from any color that LEO or Emergency vehicles use. No RED, Blue at all if you want to use them at night. White lights can look Blue and cops don't need another excuse to pull over a Harley.

If you stay with Green, Purple or other non Red or Blue lights you should be fine with riding with them on. Nothing flashing either, they can ticket you for "impersonating an emergency vehicle"
 
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Old Mar 27, 2013 | 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by fcsallan
Stay away from any color that LEO or Emergency vehicles use. No RED, Blue at all if you want to use them at night. White lights can look Blue and cops don't need another excuse to pull over a Harley.

If you stay with Green, Purple or other non Red or Blue lights you should be fine with riding with them on. Nothing flashing either, they can ticket you for "impersonating an emergency vehicle"
I wouldn't ever ride with them on... just parked. I like the red so I'd be in trouble there, but other than that I'd be afraid that I'd look like a carnival riding down the street. I'd like to be seen, but that's pushing it.
 
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Old Oct 17, 2013 | 01:50 AM
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I have 4 LED light strips each with a ground and positive and I have the switch mounted, but I can't figure out how I should hook everything up. I mounted 6 of these to my Road Glide, but there is plenty of places to run the wires and hide the terminal strip in a touring bike, but doing the same thing on a Heritage it gets a little tricky trying to hide things. Does anyone have any pics of their installs or any info on where they mounted their terminal strips of where they ran the wires?
 
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Old Oct 17, 2013 | 02:55 AM
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Boogey Lights brand, all I use.
 
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Old Oct 17, 2013 | 05:09 AM
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Cheap & with remote control


Look at this on eBay:

5M 500CM RGB 3528 SMD 300 LED Strips LIGHT Waterproof & 24 Key IR Remote 12V

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Old Oct 17, 2013 | 03:41 PM
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I used these. Pretty inexpensive and easy to install.

Some sets are expandable with more strips. Others are fixed. I bought the 6 strip kit and not expandable.

Wish I had a few more strips now.

http://www.ledunderbody.com/led-moto...telink=LeftNav
 
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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Jukebox
I have 4 LED light strips each with a ground and positive and I have the switch mounted, but I can't figure out how I should hook everything up. I mounted 6 of these to my Road Glide, but there is plenty of places to run the wires and hide the terminal strip in a touring bike, but doing the same thing on a Heritage it gets a little tricky trying to hide things. Does anyone have any pics of their installs or any info on where they mounted their terminal strips of where they ran the wires?
Just run the light strips on the flat of the bottom of the tank as close to the tunnel as you can, run the wires close to the frame and up above the oil tank, (softail), or up under the edge, rear of the tank into the battery area under the seat, (both bikes), secure with zip ties if needed. Find a good flat spot for your switch, under the seat pan on the touring, or on the back side of the coil bracket on the softail. Hook one side of your switch wire to the fuse link that is connected to your positive battery post, hook the other wire from your switch to positive, red wires, from your LED strips. Run a ground wire from your negative post of your battery or another frame ground and hook to the negative, black wires, from the LED's together. Put in fuse, should be 3 amp, and turn on.
I always put some lights behind the breather and horn too as these will block some of the light from the tank. These will make a big difference and will light up the lifter blocks and primary.
Generally you can tuck all the wiring in the battery compartment area with no problem. the exception would be on the Springer's and some of the Dyna's, but without a remote control box to have to tuck in there too you should not have any problems.
 

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