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Ratman: Understand about the marker light....making the rears like the front directionals, which are on, even when they are not blinking.

Now, let me retract my earlier statement. Based on Greenbarn's comment, I looked closer and shielded the turn signal while I looked at the license plate light, because the clear lense is easier to see changes in. At idle, the pulsing is so slight I didn't notice it the first time I looked. So I will say there is a pulsing, but again, so slight you have to look for it, and even then....

Then, I ran it at a fast idle (over 40 degrees here today in MD)....I believe the pulsing is still there....but I am father away from the light because I have to work the throttle.

So nice exercise....but can't say it really matters unless you have the tail lamp assembly obviously blinking like a turn signal. So you may have gotten your mod right. I for one would not be doing any trouble shooting based on the minimal and let me say again....minimal pulsing I think I have seen on my machine. So there's another data point, as they say.

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Posted by CDNRatMan

- January 04, 2015, 10:51:00 AM

kw, never did anything to the lights prior to this. The only change I wanted to do was make the rear lights also marker lights. So took a set of Drifter front signal lights (3 wire) and remove the guts from the front to the rear pods, the reason is the metal mounting posts on the rear are longer then the front. At first I thought I had wired the marker lights incorrectly.
I removed all the guts this weekend from the pods checked all the wiring and the grounds, I tried running a separate ground like 49/GB told me to do. The pulsing is still there.
mikeakaFred also has the pulsing. So now to try it with my optimizer hooked up and see if that makes a difference.

But then how many of us have watched the back end of our 800's as we are riding down the road. I know the first time I followed my Brother-in-law riding my bike (he was rising such a whine he wanted to ride a real bike and not his big bad a$$ H-D) but the amount the rear fender moves is amazing....but I never watched the signal lights or brake lights....lol.....

Posted by greenbarn

- January 04, 2015, 08:56:36 AM

I tried mine- I do have some "pulsing" of the tail light when the turn signals are on. Specifically, every time the turn bulb comes "on" then the tail light dims ever so slightly. I had never noticed this phenomenon before.

After seeing it in person, I suspect it's just from the very slight voltage drop caused by the additional 2 bulbs (2 A ea) since the bike isn't running and there's limited power there. Try it with the bike running over 2,000 RPM - wait, your bike is in the living room.... Try it with extra battery capacity added - either a jumper box, battery charger -- Or maybe pull the Jimmy up to the closest window and run the jumper cables through the window....

If I'm right the dimming will become less noticeable, or go away completely.

Posted by kw-retrorider

- January 04, 2015, 05:06:37 AM

I have a stock lighting set-up....No pulsing of license plate or running light when either directional is on....sorry.

Didn't you rewire your back lights to be like the latest Harleys? If so, sounds like you have a running light circuit making contact with the flasher relay circuit.

Posted by CDNRatMan

- January 03, 2015, 21:31:55 PM

calling all 800 owners, need a favour, I would like you to go to your bikes and turn the key to the on position and then turn on a signal light, either one, then take a close look at your plate light and brake light, are they pulsing? Thanks.....
Any amount of pulsing........

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