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nicooolito

Hi!
I will be rebuilding the tail on my motorcycle this summer, i will mount a custom tail from a different brand motorcycle and along with that a "custom" tail light that came of a newer bike, the new tail light i want to put in is a LED tail light, but the one on my bike is halogen, both my stock (halogen) and the new LED tail light has 3 wires each, red (+) black (-) and blue (brake(when u press brakes)), so connecting them together is easy, i tried the new LED tailight by connecting it to a 12v battery and it worked fine, but does the LED taillight need a resistor/relay (or whatver its called) like the LED turn signals need to blink/operate normaly? can i damage the electronics on my bike or the new LED tail light by straight swapping/connecting the taillight to the same wires where my old Halogen taillight was? i know LED require less power, but i dont know if the excess power from my bike will burn the LED tail light, on the back of the new LED tail light it says:
13.5V
2.4/0.3W

dunno if that is of any help but..... anyone got any ideas :/
 
The LED tail light should work fine without any extra resistors etc., from the specs it is designed to work on normal "12V" bike electrics.

you know that from the detail i posted about the V & W from the backside of the headlight?
i guess ill wire it onto the bike and hope for the best.
thank you
 

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