I have a 2001 883 and the mounts for my old indicator light broke so I bought the nightster speedo holder. Well the wiring harness doesnt quite match up given that the old on is incandescent and the new is LED. Does anyone have any experience with switching to the LED and how to wire in everything given that there is only one ground for all of the wires in the LED harness but the old one grounds each wire (it looks like).

I was thinking of cutting the existing harness and soldering the respective positive wires to the new panel and then ditching the 5 ground wires for one ground wire because LED needs such a small ground connection.

Thoughts? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I thank you in advance.

 

 

I'm not sure on the newer models with the LED panel lights, but do the LED's you're using have inline resistors built in? You can't just stick an LED in where a bulb once was without having a current limiting resistor in the circuit.

 

Wires are cut about 8 inches from the LED top clam so the resistors are either in the LED board or down the harness on the bike it came from.

 

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Here is the circuitry on the panel. I am not sure if the new style resistors for LEDs do not look the same as the old resistors but maybe that is what the "R" notation in front of some of the numbers is for. I am very new to LED technology so cHarley maybe you could take a better stab at this...

 

Without a schematic I'm guessing a bit, but it looks like there's a resistor (Rx) that corresponds with each LED (DSx). Looks good to go to me.

 

Alright thanks for the help. I should be wiring it up on Thursday. Will let you know if it burns the house down...

 

why fool around? why not just go on ebay and get an identical part to replace the broken one? You can probably get them dirt cheap. Do you not belive in the K.I.S.S. methodology?

Wont this work?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Harley-David...item58921ade9c

 

No the screw mount for the oem light bar is in the wrong place and its chrome! Dont need to encourage any chromosexual behavior.

 

you're good, those are surface soldered resistors. Not a bad idea, you've got me thinking about sticking led's in my speedometer now