Installed an extra LED brake light on my 1200N (pics to come) Anyhoo, wired it up to the right side brake light wire under the seat. It works great. . . except for one *tiny* problem... The Nightster brake lights and turn signals use the same light filament/hot wire. In other words... I put on the brakes, the LED lights up fine. But when my right turn signal is on, the LED flashes too since it's wired to the right side!

Is there a brake only hot wire somewhere? Obviously I'm picking it up after the flasher. . . Is there a place to tap into befoer the flasher it so the flasher doesn't affect it? Thanks!

 

You could always run it off of the front brake.

 

I guess the question is where in the circuit is the flasher, and where is it physically located on the bike? I'm guessing I need to tap into the power *before* the flasher in the harness somewhere right?

 

I know what yer saying, but I would imagine the Nighsters prob use one of those little boxes just like in the turnsignal/running light conversion kits.

 

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Just wire it to the pressure switch for the rear brake....red/yellow stripe is hot from the switch, orange and white ties into the lighting/acc circuit, and blue goes to the main power for rear brake light from the switch pack on your bars.

If you're using a 3 wire light for the new one, you'll need to run black to ground, red to the switch (to r/y), and yellow to the acc circuit (continuous o/w).

2 wire is just run red to switch, yellow to acc circuit, and the housing is the ground.

Your turn signal relay is a big rectangle that has a 12(?) pin deutsch connector going into it....it's got a small diagram and some writing molded onto the top. You'll completely bypass that when installing a brake light, it shouldn't even touch your turn signal wiring.