Installing a rear light with intergrated indicators and combining it with LED's

[Ozzy_Errol_Flyyn]

Dear All,
              Hello I am new to this site. My name's Errol and I am from Sydney, Australia. 28y/o and have owned my first bike now for about a year. Really enjoy riding my '07 GS-500F. I have made the following modifications to it thus far:

- K&N air filter (with restrictor left in place until I tune the carby's)
- Yoshimura TRS carbon fibre slip on
- Bullet valve caps off my old BMX bike (hah)

I have on order from eBay:
- Dyno Kit Stage 1 tuning kit
- Smoked Double Bubble wind screen
- Haynes GS-500 manual
and also
- Intergrated rear light with indicators

* yet to order LED lights to replace the front and rear halogen bulbs.

I will put some pictures up soon. Thankfully I have an uncle who is handy with bikes... here in Oz I think the bike will be a defect if the indicators on the rear are not a minimum distance apart (need to be either side of the number plate I believe).
Requesting help with installing the brake light and wiring up both the LED's (which I have not ordered yet) and also wiring the intergrated rear light with LED indicators also). At this stage I am opting to trim the rear mud guard (fender) to the edge of the indicator stalks and install the new rear light and hopefully the LED's by replacing the halogen globes. I love the bike to bits, it just needs a more modern look and I feel it would be much safer with approaching traffic from behind  if I have both the LED rear light and LED indicators both installed together. Hopefully it all comes together nicely with the help fomr you guys.

On YouTube I can only see one video of the rear of a GS-500F with both the rear light with intergrated LED indicators and LED stalk indicators together, looks awesome.

Does anyone know if this kind of circuit stuffs around with the battery much? I.e. 1x pair of LED's at front, 1x LED's at rear where stalks sit, and 1x inetrgrated LED rear light with indicators.

I hope to put a bit more mileage on the bike and don't want to invest too much more money into it. What other mods do you guys recommend or leave it at that? From Feb. `12 i will start pillion passengering (girl on the rear) and hope to upgrade late 2012 to a large bike (possibly the full faired new Bandit - GSX1250FU.

- Ezza

[Big Rich]

Well, as far as upgrading the signals to LED, you will need a new turn signal relay to handle the ultra-low watts. And I believe a diode on the indicator bulb on the instrument cluster so they don't turn into "hazard flashers".

Depending how the terminals are for your new tail light and rear signals are, you could just jump the wires together and make the a 2 into 1 setup. Can't say for certain without more info though.

[Ozzy_Errol_Flyyn]

Sounds complicated...

[J_Walker]

Ozzy, I have what I think you want to do on my bike, Tho I didn't install them. If you would like pictures of the wiring/ or just a description of something, I could possibly help. I'm in the process of stripping the bike anyway. replacing some other things, adding stuff.

[Paulcet]

Sounds complicated...

Big Rich answered your questions perfectly.

Do it if you have the aptitude and time. Or pay someone. Or don't.

[Ozzy_Errol_Flyyn]

Yeah I think I might pay someone to wire it all up correctly.

J_Walker could you please send the diagrams to my e-mail?

errol.townsend@gmail.com

[Big Rich]

What part sounds complicated? You can only do one wire at a time anyway, so just take your time with it.

Each turn signal has 2 wires: a positive and a negative (referred to as a "ground"). Those would pretty much be plug and play. Usually, the turn signal relay just unplugs from the harness and the new one plugs in where the old one was. The diode is like a little inline fuse (something like that). Just cut the proper wire and insert the diode to each end of the cut wire.

The integrated tail light is only slightly harder to wire up than a normal tail light. It would have at least 2 more wires: the positive connections for the turn signals. If it has more than 2 extra wires, they would be for the negative connections for the signals.

If you pay somebody to do this, you will probably pay too much.

[Ozzy_Errol_Flyyn]

I'll leave it up to my uncle and keep you guys posted on the progress, thankyou for the replies.