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LED Frustrations

Yup, more load current

Motorrad Mike's got it. On K bikes, I've successfully used 2 x 22ohm 5watt resistors in parallel; yields 11 ohms OR ~1.+ Amp. Stock is 21W or~1.6A per bulb (not accounting for incandescent characteristics: inrush V stable on).
I cheated on my HR (OilHead bike pix #36): took a Dremel cutter & shaved narrower the current shunt strip in the flasher. Still looking into an equivalent "fix" for K bike flashers (easier to add resistors, less elegant). Good Hunting... <<<)))
 
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Here's another option (posted before). I din't like the idea of wasting power just to heat the resistor. The plan for me was to increase the amount of light using more efficient options. Using the existing light bulbs helped the system work as designed...
 
The local dealer wasn't interested in messing with the bike, and a local independent who used to be a BMW mechanic didn't want to try, either. So I found a guy who would "try". Additional reisistors in any configuration only dimmed the bulbs. I printed and brought him both diagrams above, to no avail.

Back to square 1, or removing the LEDs and replacing the incandescents. Still open to suggestion.

Greg
 
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