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Title: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 02 February 2013, 07:07:28 pm
Hi all


As mentioned before, I have gotten round to finishing my custom LED Indicator boards, a video and some pics over on my blog:


http://fotifixes.com/2013/02/02/led-indicator-boards-fzs600/ (http://fotifixes.com/2013/02/02/led-indicator-boards-fzs600/)


Any feedback welcome!
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: fazerblue on 02 February 2013, 07:38:45 pm
Well if anyone say's they did not know you were going to turn, you can present them with a white stick.
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 02 February 2013, 07:50:27 pm
Damn right :) they weren't too hard to do either
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: fazerblue on 03 February 2013, 09:26:38 am
Hi if you take a look at the post front fork respray and scroll down you will see wear I put my led indicators on my old black fzs600
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 03 February 2013, 09:30:42 am
Ah yes I think I can see, do you have any more pics? Did you use led strips?
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: Fazerider on 03 February 2013, 09:41:55 am
If you got some small male and female bullet connectors you could remove the old sockets, thread the leads though the stalk and have a neat job without wires bodged onto old bulb bases. ;)
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 03 February 2013, 09:42:47 am
True, but then I would have had to wait until I got the bullet connectors, and patience isnt in my virtue!
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: fazerblue on 03 February 2013, 09:56:18 am
yes I did front and back.
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 03 February 2013, 09:58:22 am
Ah looks good.where they drilled through the fairing or stuck on top. Looks good
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: fazerblue on 03 February 2013, 10:15:03 am
Through the fairing so they sat flush front ones a little harder to do as they are on acurve a little more space between each hole as the the gap on the strip becomes bigger as you bend it.
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 03 February 2013, 02:41:11 pm
Nice idea like that a lot. Will keep it in mind for my next project
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: darrsi on 04 February 2013, 10:16:57 pm
I put LED indicator strips on the front of my bike yesterday, i'm very impressed with the results!
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 04 February 2013, 10:56:16 pm
Awesome, any pics?
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: darrsi on 04 February 2013, 11:48:48 pm
Let me work the new phone out and i'll sort a video out!
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 05 February 2013, 07:11:26 am
Look forward to it :)
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: darrsi on 05 February 2013, 12:47:30 pm
Don't know if this video is gonna work?
If it does, sorry about the sniff, i have a cold, and the beeping is for the benefit of every arsehole who insists on stepping out in front of me as i turn into my road! A blast of the air-horn normally follows  :lol 




Can you let me know if the video is viewable please?  :thumbup



Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: packie on 05 February 2013, 01:09:51 pm
Don't know if this video is gonna work?
If it does, sorry about the sniff, i have a cold, and the beeping is for the benefit of every arsehole who insists on stepping out in front of me as i turn into my road! A blast of the air-horn normally follows  :lol 




Can you let me know if the video is viewable please?  :thumbup

Not here in work. My puter could be Jurrasic and have hassle viewing MP4. Can you save it in a earlier version for dinosaur peeps like me?  I have the  :lurk waitng!!
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: darrsi on 05 February 2013, 01:14:44 pm
Don't know if this video is gonna work?
If it does, sorry about the sniff, i have a cold, and the beeping is for the benefit of every arsehole who insists on stepping out in front of me as i turn into my road! A blast of the air-horn normally follows  :lol 




Can you let me know if the video is viewable please?  :thumbup

Not here in work. My puter could be Jurrasic and have hassle viewing MP4. Can you save it in a earlier version for dinosaur peeps like me?  I have the  :lurk waitng!!


It's taken me 2 days to get this far, not up to speed with my new phone yet  :groan
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 05 February 2013, 01:34:02 pm
Works for me :)

Looking good as well, like it very much.

I put it on youtube for you, bit easier for other people to view :)

Fazer FZS600 Indicator mod by Darrsi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNrPLSssak#ws)



Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: darrsi on 05 February 2013, 01:42:14 pm
Ok, i've just been told it is a viewable video, so Packie you're gonna have to tell your bosses to upgrade your Commodore PC  :lol


These are the lights i bought  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amber-LED-Stick-On-Indicator-Turn-Signal-Strips-For-Yamaha-FZS-600-S-Fazer-/180967760572?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item2a2284e2bc (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amber-LED-Stick-On-Indicator-Turn-Signal-Strips-For-Yamaha-FZS-600-S-Fazer-/180967760572?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item2a2284e2bc)


Had to undo the indicator to slip the wire inside the fairing, then the stripped back wire was put through inside of the bullet connector of the original indicator cable, folded back a bit then pushed back in. Be careful stripping the wire back as the cable is very thin.
The positive/negative wires do have to be the right way round too, otherwise they don't work, as i found out!


I positioned the LED strip just before the curve at the front of the fairing to keep it from being bent at all, as i figured when/if the weather gets hot the heat may melt the double-sided tape and undo it.


*** The advert says you will need resistors to keep the lights in sync with the original indicators, you do NOT need them, they sync just fine ***




I put them on just as an extra warning for when you poke the front of the bike out from a side turning, and to be honest i never thought they'd be that bright but it appears to be a small amount of money well spent  :D
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: alexanderfitu on 05 February 2013, 01:43:18 pm
However you will need them if you remove the original bulbs :)

Thanks for the info
Title: Re: LED indicator boards
Post by: darrsi on 05 February 2013, 01:44:08 pm
@alexanderfitu

Top man, thanks very much  :)


I did attempt YouTube but it stopped me posting for some reason?  :rolleyes