mikeshungry
Junior Member
As riders we want to make sure that we are seen. With this bike I didn't want to become a Christmas tree but I wanted to upgrade the rear lights and indicators on my 05 fz6. Somehow I found a motodynamic tail light online and installed it splicing in other LED stem signals with running lights and brake light functions integrated. I expected this not to be too heavy of a load on the battery because I understand LED's draw less power. But because the tail light has a microprocessor inside the light malfunctions until the bike has been running for about 3 or 4 minutes. I'm guessing until the voltage comes back up? The tail light came with resistors already wired in, but I eliminated them thinking it would help some, but not much, the stem signals are still very dim when the bike is off or the RPM's are low. I installed the electronic flasher relay (ELFR-1) to correct the hyper flashing that occurs with LED's. For the most part everything functions at higher RPM's, but when I turn on the brights, (more load) the tail light malfunctions once again and the turn signals go dim and may not even light up! Note I still have incandescent OEM signals up front; I've tested with them disconnected, not much difference. I've gone through my wiring and splicing several times everything is tight as a drum.
Hopefully someone else has run into this problem. Because I am lost beating my head against the wall. I waiting to borrow a multimeter from my buddy so I can get some numbers, of which I will post because they may likely not make much sense to me. Someone else was saying an upgraded stator with a higher output would instantly correct the problem? True or false? Note my battery may be over a few years old but has never gone dead or lost a charge or struggled to crank the engine. I was also planning on doing the headlight mod next but I couldn't imagine anything working properly with adding another application to the load. I also have a 12v cigarette lighter outlet wired to my battery but nothing has been connected to it so it shouldn't make any difference. Any advice??
Hopefully someone else has run into this problem. Because I am lost beating my head against the wall. I waiting to borrow a multimeter from my buddy so I can get some numbers, of which I will post because they may likely not make much sense to me. Someone else was saying an upgraded stator with a higher output would instantly correct the problem? True or false? Note my battery may be over a few years old but has never gone dead or lost a charge or struggled to crank the engine. I was also planning on doing the headlight mod next but I couldn't imagine anything working properly with adding another application to the load. I also have a 12v cigarette lighter outlet wired to my battery but nothing has been connected to it so it shouldn't make any difference. Any advice??