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Front signal wiring question 9 months 1 week ago #1

Hey guys, i recently bought a set of yamaha front signals (LED) they look good but the issue is the bike has a blue brown and black wire and the signal has a black and yellow wire.... so would i hook it up black to black and blue and brown to yellow?? thanks for your help	smitdog55 OFFLINE Fresh Max Posts: 38 Thank you received: 4
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Re: Front signal wiring question 9 months 1 week ago #2

Go Black to black and then whatever the others are I would think. A quick test will confirm, you won`t hurt any thing. all the circuits are fused anyhow.	VMAXD OFFLINE Gold Max Posts: 1357 Thank you received: 707
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Re: Front signal wiring question 9 months 1 week ago #3

check your wiring diagram.....there are three wires because one is the running light and one is the turn flasher and the other is the return (ground)

If you are installing LED's you may wish/need to drop teh voltage on the turn flasher wire.

I had to use a 470 ohm resistor to get my LED's to burn bright for turn flasher, for the brand I installed.

there should be a thread on here already related to LED wires and might even have the wire digram.

I'll check my wire colors tomorrow if you don't get an answer from the gand by then.

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Re: Front signal wiring question 9 months 1 week ago #4

LED turn signal black=ground, yellow=positve. ON the MAX there are running lights therefor 3 wires on either side, Black=ground, blue=running light and there should be a green wire on one side and a brown on the other those are positve wires one for left and right turn signals, if my memory serves me . vmaxmercer	vmaxmercer NOW ONLINE Platinum Max Posts: 2565 Thank you received: 1029
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Re: Front signal wiring question 9 months 1 week ago #5

Thats right. If you do not need any running position lights e.g. in europe you can use the blue wire to feed instruments like navigation at the handlebar. Quite useful.	marc007 NOW ONLINE Senior Max Posts: 107 Thank you received: 67
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Re: Front signal wiring question 9 months 1 week ago #6

Thanks for your help everyone, black to black and green to yellow on one side and brown to yellow on the other side. Blue is for running lights which wasnt used in this application.	smitdog55 OFFLINE Fresh Max Posts: 38 Thank you received: 4
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Re: Front signal wiring question 9 months 1 week ago #7

smitdog55 wrote:

Thanks for your help everyone, black to black and green to yellow on one side and brown to yellow on the other side. Blue is for running lights which wasnt used in this application.

You got the turn signals working which is great to hear...if you ever wanted to have the running light feature, it is possible to do by installing a dual element circuit (shown in second picture)...the first picture is the OEM lighting...

Also, if you wanted the LEDs to blink at the OEM flash rate without putting in s load resistor (which gets EXTREMELY hot), you can replace the OEM Flasher Relay with the one shown in picture number 2...

The second picture also shows the Integrated rear tail light assembly...JFYI...

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Re: Front signal wiring question 6 months 3 weeks ago #8

PeaDawg wrote:

check your wiring diagram.....there are three wires because one is the running light and one is the turn flasher and the other is the return (ground)

If you are installing LED's you may wish/need to drop teh voltage on the turn flasher wire.

I had to use a 470 ohm resistor to get my LED's to burn bright for turn flasher, for the brand I installed.

there should be a thread on here already related to LED wires and might even have the wire digram.

I'll check my wire colors tomorrow if you don't get an answer from the gand by then.

----PeaDawg

Where did you get that resistor? I'm having the same issue. The LED has 14 internals but only 3 are dimly lighting up. When I connect the original black ground they light up bright all 14 but won't blink. So I'm guessing the flasher wire isn't hot enough hence the dimly lit flashing.

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Re: Front signal wiring question 6 months 3 weeks ago #9

wrong thread...sorry...	cvvmax OFFLINE Vendor Posts: 2733 Thank you received: 1384
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Re: Front signal wiring question 6 months 3 weeks ago #10

I recently changed out to a set of 18 LED signals that actually came with 3 wires to allow for the stock running light configuration. But when connected up properly, the 3 LEDs attached to the running light wire would only illuminate very dimly. When a turn signal was activated, all 18 LEDs would light and flash normally. I had to add in an inline 4003(i think) diode (old Radioshack stock I had lying around) to the turn signal wire. And of course, I already had an aftermarket flasher made for the lighter LED loads to correct the flash rate.