Falco indicators

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D-Rider · #46 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:32 am

As I said, the MOT is a different matter.

You will probably get no trouble from MOT chaps or be pulled by Plod.
The thing that may attract Plod to look more closely is if they notice an apparent lack of rear indicators - but it sounds as you will have other indies too.

.... and anyway, how many plod know the rules .... witness the video of the cyclist who jumped the red light .....

Others were asking what the rules are and Paddy couldn't find them - I just posted a link to them and explained my reading of the relevant bits - I wasn't saying that you will have problems and the world will end.

HowardQ · #47 Post by **HowardQ** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:01 pm

anzacinexile wrote:
wayofthedarkhand wrote:The LED bulbs that are the same fitments as the standard rear light bulbs - how do they work when braking?

They're rated at around 2.5w, 5w for standard rear, and 21w for the brake lights, which are of cause housed in the same bulb.
LED's dont have filaments but how they work is the bulb may have 24 LED's but only 25% are used for the rear light and the remaining 75% are used for the brake light

I use them with my smoked rear lense and they are fine. Make sure you get some with LEDs that point sideways as well, so they light the reflector panels, otherwise you will only see a light source the size of the bulb itself.

Nooj · #48 Post by **Nooj** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:15 am

anzacinexile wrote:
wayofthedarkhand wrote:The LED bulbs that are the same fitments as the standard rear light bulbs - how do they work when braking?

They're rated at around 2.5w, 5w for standard rear, and 21w for the brake lights, which are of cause housed in the same bulb.
LED's dont have filaments but how they work is the bulb may have 24 LED's but only 25% are used for the rear light and the remaining 75% are used for the brake light

Not seen any that do that (other than my boards). The replacement bulbs I've played with (talking a few years ago now) worked on a voltage difference. All were on for the tail light, then got fractionally brighter with a small voltage increase (bypassing a resistor) for the brake lights. Pretty shit design as it's very hard to make out the change in brightness.

Things have moved on now though with OE car/bike built-in LED arrays, but I don't know how the latest lot of replacement bulbs work.

furygan man · #49 Post by **furygan man** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:56 pm

D-Rider wrote: ..... However, the man from Hinckley (furygan man) also made some .....
https://www.ridersite.com/viewtopic.ph ... hlight=led

...and they are still going strong, pretty verstile and easy to do once you work out which wires to connect, and no resistors to worry about. Have ideas for a MkII if i can be bothered!