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#21
04-04-2023, 07:24 PM
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I do not have a great knowledge of resitors for LEDs. But I thought they were to balance the TSM because it gets confused because the load would be so small
it is possible your new lights depsite being LED are still drawing a lot of power. Adding the resistors I would think would make it worse, more load. But you should be able to google that topic.
it is possible your new lights depsite being LED are still drawing a lot of power. Adding the resistors I would think would make it worse, more load. But you should be able to google that topic.
#22
04-04-2023, 08:10 PM
From what a few buddies from the club said who put daymaker led headlights in their bikes it blew their stators and that’s what I installed and right after installing it I blew my stator, they told me I need a resistor or a load equalizer in the bike cause without it it’ll overload and burn out the stator.
There is no need for a load equalizer on a headlight circuit.
A load equalizer is only needed on some models for the turn signals, because the LED`s use less current.
The turn signal module is designed to flash the signals when a certain current flow is reached, but with LED`s the current flow is too low.
A load equalizer is used to increase the current in the circuit (fooling the turn signal module), it does this by allowing more current to go to ground, through a resistor.
Read post #17.
Last edited by Dan89FLSTC; 04-04-2023 at 08:13 PM.
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#23
04-05-2023, 10:43 AM
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