Converting to led lights!
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how do you bend the aluminum without it cracking? the sheets I have always split when I attempt to bend them. otherwise I would make some mounts like you did. those are nice.
I always use a blow torch to soften the aluminum to bend it. Not sure if that's the proper way though but it works for me
I use a press brake or a hand brake, i think the aluminum im using is 3003, it has excellent corrosion resistance with good formability and weldability.
Your using some hard stuff that wont bend unless you heat it.
I got the lights, Regulator/Rectifier, and battery wired up, and i can run the lights on the battery. They are a bright white light, and they look AWESOME! 
My tail light wont work because it is grounded to the frame, and my lighting system is not.
Im going to run a new ground wire from the tail light to the battery.
Am i better off grounding the battery to the frame to make the tail light work, or running a ground from the tail light to the battery?
Im going to run a new ground wire from the tail light to the battery.
Am i better off grounding the battery to the frame to make the tail light work, or running a ground from the tail light to the battery?
depends. if the ground on the stator is floated, you can just ground the battery to the frame but then your ignition system is also grounded to the frame. may cause issues, im not sure. i would just run an extra wire if i was you. well, i made a whole custom harness. took a day to wire up but its much simpler. i basically threw the factory harness in the trash, ran the wires from the motor forward instead of back, they reached the cdi without an extension so i basically have way less connections to fail. and then i just had to hook up the kill wires to the key and the kill switch and the coil wire and ground to the coil. thats seriously all it needs to run, the harness adds a lot of extra junk. got the bike running with as simple a harness as possible, and them added the lighting harness in on top of that, with its own ground loop.
Yep all the trailtech grounds are isolated from the frame. So was thinking separate ground wire to all accessories.
I was wondering if grounding it all together may cause a possible future issues.
The factory harness is like a
, all the black, and black/white grounds, with the tarantula connections.
