Flhx tri-bar lights
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Flhx tri-bar lights
I have an 08 sg and have been putting brighter bulbs in lately. If i'm not mistaken, the tri-bar lights on the rear fender are suppose to get brighter when the brakes are applied. I checked on hd web site for the description and it indicates the lights do react to the brakes being applied. Anyone back me up on that or am i wrong? I also read a post yesterday about someone making his light bar go on when the brakes are applied by moving one of the wires in the harness...could not find that post again today.
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JABMIKE, I remember the post you're talking about. however, I didn't see any pins to move when i removed the rear cover. I made my own LED light bar and wired it internally. I used 28 LED's compared to the 4 that HD uses. I spent less than 30 bucks and looks pretty dam good and took many pics while doing it. I believe your light is just a running light but you can solder it as a brake light only (from what i read). you can do this 2 ways, you can 1- build a circuit and install as run/brake light, or you can check out a truck stop and see what "chicken" lights they have (LED's). you can find a dual intensity 6 inch LED bar and hot glue it to the inside facing down and wire them internally. i took a picture of the board where i wired it. if i remember, the white wire was the ground, black was brake and red was running. lastly, NO you don't need a load equalizer, it's very simple and not needed.
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Thanks, i will check out the part from hd. I put the 69462-06a kit on but left the yellow lenses on. As a retired cop i can tell you that too many red lights is not good. That's why in ny police cars now add blue lights so they can stand out. Think about driving in traffic at night. The only color you see is red tail lights. I also added a sylvania silverstar bulb to the brake. It seems a little brighter. I also have a detachable tour pak with a brake light on the rack. I put the aux. Lights on the sg when it was new. I tried the hyper yellow nokya bulbs but didn't like them. Just a dull yellow. Anyone know how to clean the inside of the headlight and aux lights. They have become foggy??
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I put the BAL-1R on my bike ('04 EG with SG rear fascia/tri-bar light) and the tri-bar light isn't noticeable when the brake light flashes and goes steady burn at the higher settings than stock. I've ridden behind SG's with the HD run/brake accessory tri-bar light and didn't consider it to be very noticeable; nothing like the BAL IMO.
The BAL is pricey, but it's good value when considering other lighting alternatives (e.g. HD's saddlebag spoiler LED's which I had) to provide more light at the rear of the bike.
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The BAL is pricey, but it's good value when considering other lighting alternatives (e.g. HD's saddlebag spoiler LED's which I had) to provide more light at the rear of the bike.
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