Need Help. LED underglow, need help with WIRING.
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RE: Need Help. LED underglow, need help with WIRING.
Sorry for the questions, but another just came into my head. My LEDs can turn on without the bike being on. Is there a way to evade this? I dont want people walking up to my bike and just turning it on out of curiousity then leaving it on, draining my battery. I ran my positive wire directly onto the positive post of the battery.
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RE: Need Help. LED underglow, need help with WIRING.
You can drill a hole in your side panel under your seat if you use a small push button switch its barely noticable or on your ram air cover towards the headlight so its out of sight. If it is directly wired into the battery, there will always be constant power to that switch. One thing you can do though is double switch it, meaning you would have to turn on a switch to turn on a switch, if that makes sense. that way you know how to turn them on, but some turd cant just walk buy and turn them on.
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Instead of wirung the power to your battery, tie it into a power wire that only turns on when the bike is on, like a headlight or tail light wire, or directly into the fuse panel. Only problem with this is you are more prone to blowing fuses with an overload depending on how many lights your using, but its probably the best way so there isnt a constant power drain on your battery.
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Instead of wirung the power to your battery, tie it into a power wire that only turns on when the bike is on, like a headlight or tail light wire, or directly into the fuse panel. Only problem with this is you are more prone to blowing fuses with an overload depending on how many lights your using, but its probably the best way so there isnt a constant power drain on your battery.
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RE: Need Help. LED underglow, need help with WIRING.
yeah D2D summed it up....
i have a different scenario...i actually wired in a remote switch...sort of like a car alarm switch so i can turn mine on and off at a distance...the only problem i didn't forsee and have to correct (easily) is that the remote box in the bike, yeah it's constantly pulling power as the receiver (no idea why i didn't think of this before) so if i leave it powered, it will slowly drain my battery....
my easy fix is to put a kill switch in underneath the seat like D2D said....this way, if i am not using the lights i just flip the kill and nothing....when i am using them for a night, i just flip the kill and use my remote to turn them on and off....
on a side note...you should see people's reactions when i am standing talking to them and am like "watch this" and glow up my bike from 25ft away...haha...it's great...
i have a different scenario...i actually wired in a remote switch...sort of like a car alarm switch so i can turn mine on and off at a distance...the only problem i didn't forsee and have to correct (easily) is that the remote box in the bike, yeah it's constantly pulling power as the receiver (no idea why i didn't think of this before) so if i leave it powered, it will slowly drain my battery....
my easy fix is to put a kill switch in underneath the seat like D2D said....this way, if i am not using the lights i just flip the kill and nothing....when i am using them for a night, i just flip the kill and use my remote to turn them on and off....
on a side note...you should see people's reactions when i am standing talking to them and am like "watch this" and glow up my bike from 25ft away...haha...it's great...
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