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Anyone add hard wired led lighting to their luggage areas? If so what lights did you use? Been thinking of using license plate white leds for trailer lighting as they are cheap and not super bright.
I thought about doing that 3 years ago, put in a couple stick on battery operated ones temporarily while I researched. 3years later still there on the same set of batteries!
Not powered from the trike, but I used a set of 8 LEDs meant for a truck bed, 4 in the tour pack and 4 in the trunk. I'm using some small battery boxes with switches I found and a couple of those 12 volt batteries used in garage door openers. You could easily do the same thing using power available. There's an always-hot lead going to the trunk, and the tour pack has that line that the 12v outlet (cigarette lighter) uses, on with ignition. I'll try to find some pics and edit them in.
Those work really well, just the right amount of light. Edit: 4 years on the batteries!!
It's ugly but functional. I actually positioned them with the garage lights off, just light from the windows, so I could see where they were pointing.
You can see the little box with the battery and switch. You could just use a switch. Notice the small tire pressure gauge with magnet sticking to the seat back nut. Hasn't fallen off in 20K miles!
Not too unreasonable.
One up basically in each corner, ran the wiring behind the liner. Garage lights off but garage door open for this pic, you can still tell that it does light stuff up fairly well in there, since it's still pretty dark in there even in the daylight. The only thing is that the fuller you pack it, the more the light gets blocked.
Last edited by Oogie Wa Wa; Apr 9, 2021 at 10:03 PM.
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I have one small led in the TP that I got from Pep boys and a small switch. I hard wired it with the wire for the cig lighter in the TP, ign has to be on but that's ok. Haven't done one in the Trunk but I don't think it would be hard to mount one on the inside of the door and wire it to the license plate light. HD sells a kit that the lights go on when the door is open and off when closed but typical HD it cost more than the bike does.
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Hard wired 12v led in trunk and tour pack
