This forum has already gotten me past one problem so now I need advice. The stock Honda 3303 flasher can't handle LED's with any load equalizer. The Kuryakyn melted. I bought a different one and the flasher goes nuts without selecting any direction. I found a recomendation for the Tridon EP35 under a different topic.
My problem is trying to install a rear set of LED turn signals along with the front one. With all 4 signals LED the flasher flashes all of them. With the stock rear signals and LED front signals everything is normal. Can anyone recomend a different flasher to handle this or is there a place that I can attach a load equalizer that will not cause heat damage? I'm open to ideas.
Arthur
I have also recently purchased four Kuryakyn LED turn signals (pair of amber for the front and a pair of red for the back) for my Magna, though I haven't gotten around to installing them yet. I also purchased an LED tail light, two of the Kuryakyn 4 amp load equalizers (Cruiser Customizing told me that I would need one for each pair of turn signals) and the Kuryakyn Run-Turn-Stop controller for the red LEDs. I did not, however, purchase a new flasher as CC told me it wouldn't be necessary. While shopping for all this stuff, CC told me that I should also get the Kuryakyn Diode Kit, which would prevent all four turn signals from flashing at once. This sounds like the problem you are having. The good news is that the part is under $7. You can find it here:
http://www.cruisercustomizing.com/detail.cfm?model_ID=15&Category_ID=5&manufacturer_ID=16&product_ID=11257&sblid_name=Kuryakyn_Diode_Kit_for_Metric_Bikes_for_Honda_Magna
If you purchase and install this Diode Kit, please let me know if that solved all of your problems and if your turn signals are working well. I will be installing mine in the next month or so, so any info you can share would be appreciated. I would especially like to know if the flasher you bought works well once the Diode Kit is installed. You can email me at gechoike@mac.com. Hope this all works out for you.
I spoke with Kuryakyn on Friday. They recomended putting a load equalizer on the rear signals and ground to frame. I also found a turn signal flasher that has the load equalizer in it but it didn't help. The best I have managed so far has been the correct front flasher and both rear flashers at the same time.
I'll post an update as I figure more out. I love a good puzzle. :lol:
Arthur
Well I'm sorry to say that the second load equalizer on the back lights just caused all 4 to flash. I emailed tech support at Kuryakyn to see about the diode.
I'm attaching a pic of the bike with the lights on.
I am hopefully about to start the process of updating my lights, beginning with the headlight and then moving on to the blinkers. However, it sounds like there is a good deal of time and expense involved with converting to an LED system. Can anyone give me a ball park of what it would cost for such a conversion.
Secondly, I cannot figure out what is below your right (as you are sitting on it) mirror?!? Is it below it or behind it?
Lastly, DUDE you have one hungry dog! That is one huge pile of dog food! He/she must eat like a horse. Either that or it has enough food for the next decade.
BTW, thanks for the post on the progress . . . keep em coming. dc
What is below the mirror is the back seat from my Dodge Grand Caravan. I had it out to bring home a new TV and used it for a tool rest.
To update the head light is easy. That is just a new bulb.
Kutyakyn lights are around $130 or so. Then you need the clamps another $40. The rears are about the same but are for a different bike. I'll have to look up the numbers and prices for you.
I got the diode for the signal indicator. Because the bike only has one that is what is causing the cross over. Or so they say. The diode just came in today $7 plus shipping. The diode is a all or nothing affair. So I am going to do a test fit before I make it solder joints. I'll also test the flashers so you will know if you need one or not. As well as the load equalizers.
Right now for only the fronts you do not need the equalizer if you change the flasher.
As far as the dog food, it's a lab. And her owner believes in stocking up when it is on sale.
John, thanks for the pages from the manual. Now I know what I am in for. I used to think I did the hardest things in life when I was younger.
Arthur :lol:
Who would have thought that changing a few lights would be so complicated? I guess "plug and play" hasn't made it to the motorcycle world yet.
As for the headlight, I am looking real closely at one on ebay that is $90 plus shipping. I'll need to make a mount (I have a friend who can help out) so I am hoping it will be easy enough. It seems like the blinkers are gonna have to wait.
As for the UFO in your picture, I was reffering to the thing seen below. I know it is something obvious, but I am just not getting it.
As for the dog/horse, keep the food coming. dc
Looks like a wind deflector for the grips.
I had those on my mx bike left from the previous owner, and we called them bark busters (mainly because trail riders used them to protect them from trees). After a few hard crashes at the track I decided to keep them on. Needless to say they saved my hands & levers more than a few times. Casing a jump was bad enough, but catching your hand between the ground and the handlebars was much worse. Unfortunalty if I were to take a spill like that on my magna I think a bent lever is the least of my worries.
When I first got the bike I lived up north. My hands don't do cold well and they helped keep the cold off my hands. They have also saved me from some stones, large bugs a cig butt and some other odds and ends that came out of car windows or off the road.
When the bike and I went down in '05 the mirror got knocked loose and the deflector came off. That is what started the turn signal replacement.
The diode will not fit under the turn signal indicator under the "dash". There are only 2 wires there and they go right into a small bundle going back to who knows where on the bike.
I think I know where but I need to see the wiring diagram. That or I'm going to have the dealer do it. Then I can finally get the rear signals on.
I manufactured LED signal lights for the front & rear of my 2000 Magna. To make a LONG story short, I ended up installing a flasher unit which operates independent of the load. You can set the flash rate etc. I tried the load equalizers and they did not work for me, but I may possibly have been installing them wrong.
It can be frustrating doing the LED changover, but once accomplished-WOW!
I will have to send pics when the bike is back together from last winter's "update"
Cheers!
Greg