Radiantz Dual Intensity Amber Turn Signal LED Cluster for Harley Deuce
Radiantz Dual Intensity Red Turn Signal LED Cluster for Harley Deuce
Product:
Radiantz # 9500-27 and 9500-17.
These LED clusters are close to a perfect fit for the Chris Products Deuce Style Turn Signals and look amazing when combined with Chris Products Clear Lenses but they do require modification to mount properly. Note that this voids the warranty on the clusters. They might also look good with the smoked lenses as well but I chose to use clear.
To install these you need to set the cluster onto the back of the Chris Products lens and mark where each of the mounting tabs will interfere with the cluster as it is slightly too wide to fit inside the lens. Once marked where the five tabs interfere simply use a file or a dremel notch edges for each tab to fit past the circuit board of the cluster, see bottom photo. This actually works out great because each LED cluster is solidly held in place in the lens by those tabs and does not move or bounce, it actually installs into the lens like a puzzle piece when done right. The electrical connection is an 1157 pig tail that mounts into the light bulb socket meaning no modification to the Chris turn signals is necessary.
In operation these lights are bright! The yellow front clusters are rich in color and incredibly bright which hopefully will make them and ultimately my bike more noticeable to traffic all while saving electricity. The rear Red clusters are also incredibly bright and very visible. One thing I noticed with my universal trailer run/turn/brake controller wired in is that the running lights weren't as dim as I expected. I resolved this by putting two small wire round resisters in the signal path of the running lights to eat some voltage making them dimmer when just running lights. This is wasteful and causes a loss in electrical efficiency but is what I think needed to be done. The running lights are still plenty bright enough in the day time, but now with the running lights dimmer when the brakes which were already super bright come on with a more noticeable change from the running lights. For a regularly wired bike the additional resistors would not be needed.
Note that LED turn signals require a new turn signal relay and in my case I had to install a single home made load balancer in order to get my run/turn/brake controller to work properly. See our Electrical and Lighting page for more information on a recommended turn signal relay and links to making your own diodes and or load balancers as different problems could arise on different bikes depending on their setup.
The change from incandescent bulbs to LED all the way around was worth the cost to do it. I prefer these clusters to simple LED Drop in bulbs that might have required me to modify my Chris Products turn signals or worse not been big enough to have LEDs throughout the entire light lens. These look good, are rich in color, are super bright, and help save at least a little juice when riding even with a single load balancer and resisters on the rear running lights. Better still is that if one ever goes out my turn signals can still be operated with a properly colored light bulb (because of the clear lenses) until a replacement arrives.