LED tail lights Sinister or Native??

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Jun 29, 2012 | 10:31 PM

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ericl

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Originally Posted by cmacclel

How about a picture of them in tail light mode and brake mode during the daylight.....pretty please

I will try to get something in the mornining.

Jul 3, 2012 | 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by diesel6060

Check out my garage. I have sinister jaded. My buddy says they are really bright during the day. Supper bright at night. No modulator used.

That is strange there is another guy over at the road glide forum that said more than one person in his riding group warned him that they could not see the sinister jaded lights in the daylight. My fender cam an hour ago and I need to order something ASAP.

Jul 3, 2012 | 10:26 PM

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103Eagle

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I have the Sinister Fender and Lights, the rounded ends not the pointed. I have people all the time tell me that I have no lights on the back of my bike. I stop and look, they are on and working. I must admit that during the day, they are not easily seen, especially if you are not directly straight on looking at them. The center section of the trim or bezels block some of the light as far as I am concerned. I also feel that the leds are red and have too thick a lens as well. Only my humble opinion. If the Native were available back then, I would have opted for them, in the larger size as well.

Jul 3, 2012 | 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by 103Eagle

It looks to me that both the Sinister and Native lights use 5mm LED's so I don't know how different the brightness would be unless one company is driving them a little harder. The lights I see on Ebay use a different style surface mount LED that us found in most of the newer sport bike so maybe that would be the way to go.

Thanks Mac

Jul 26, 2012 | 06:43 PM

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ITOLDU

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Overlay

Subscribed, I have a Sinister Overlay and having a time trying to figure out the wiring piece..... purchased it used no instructions
I will update tomorrow with link to photobucket for pics....

I got a CHIT load of questions....

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Jul 26, 2012 | 06:50 PM

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ITOLDU

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Originally Posted by rsplanner

Here is the wiring diagram I created with my installation. I hope you find this helpful.

I just printed out the diagram.... my concern is my turn signals are from one of his earlier fenders 08... I only see Red/Yellow/Black wires...
and the license plate wires are Red/Black +/-
will try it in the morning... working nights... Thx

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Oct 15, 2013 | 07:09 PM

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badbaggerz

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I have the SINISTER INDUSTRIES jaded pointed tail lights also and ran a custom dynamics triple play which makes 2 wires (positive and negative) do all three functions. The jaded pointed lights have 4 leads. Lead 1 powers RUNNING LIGHTS which both strips light on LOW intensity, Lead 2 powers one strip for a BRAKE LIGHT on HIGH intensity, Lead 3 powers one strip for a TURN SIGNAL on HIGH intensity, and BLACK is GROUND. I wired my triple play which has 1 positive and 1 negative for each side and makes the light you hook it to do all 3 functions. I connected my pos out of the triple play to the 2 high intensity circuit wires of my tail lights and did not use the low intensity circuit on the tail light. The negative wire from my triple play went to ground wire at the light. Now both strips are run brake and turn. They worked good all summer then a few leds went on one then the whole strip went out then the other strip next to it started going out. I got a replacement and 3 leds went after a day. the left side never gave me a problem. Has anyone wired there lights to do run turn brake from a module. I know sinister wires both strips low intensity (running lights) one strip to be brake lights and the other for turn signals. I called custom dynamics and they said it should be fine and sinister dont have voltage specs per circuit.

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