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Thread: Flashing 2nd brake light

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    Hopefully somebody can help me, i seen another bike the other day and aside from the standard brake light it had a strip of LED's and when he hit the brakes the strip flashed while the standard stayed solid. It made the bike very noticable from behind. I was wondering how i could make a led strip flash when i hit my brakes. Any ideas? The other bike was a brand new harley. Thanks in advance

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    Sounds like a built in relay, could be done with a little electronics know how. I'm thinking all you'd have to do is tap into the stock brake wires, with some sort of relay? I rode with my buddy's dad who had a road king, those flashing brake lights are awesome!

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    I wonder if just a turn signal flasher would work. I still have my stock one i could mod so it didnt rapid flash

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    It's the same concept hit switch to give it power the turn signal relay
    makes it flash in theory it should work. Wiring it up would be the tricky part. I say go for it and if it work post a how to for others if they want to do it

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    Lol @ 79.95. I'll try with a turn signal flasher.

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    I have that setup. I used a back-off flasher and wired it to flash the LED strip at a different rate than the stop light. The LED and the XB Lights really light it up.



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