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Old Apr 3, 2012 | 09:03 PM
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Installed my Badlands equalizer. Hooked everything up and everything worked as it should. Disconnected everything. Went back down to hook up everything. Now the brakes are on full time. Press the front brake, lights dim to running lights. Rear brakes don't work. I disconnected the handlebar controls, and the lights turn to running lights and the rear brake lights work. What the hell? Anyone experience this before?
 
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Old Apr 4, 2012 | 11:29 AM
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take it all apart and start over...apparently you did something wrong the second time...it happens all the time...
 
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Old Apr 4, 2012 | 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Stevieskull
What the hell? Anyone experience this before?
It is all in your own hands! Most electrical problems are actually mechanical. In other words you connected something up wrong.
 
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Running LEDs all the way around? If not, ditch the damn L.E.
 
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