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That looks alright there Mr. Irk. May not be every ones cuppa tea but hey I did a Canary yellow Honda Magna. As long as the customer/Buddy is happy you did your job. I actually like it. I'd maybe have blacked out a little of the shinier bits on the engine, but that might take a lot of work, not sure. Cheers
I agree. It's not stock, but instead a fiberglass version of a Softail fender. I could narrow it by cutting a 1/2" to inch of the center, but also the curve of the fender and how it fits the inner frame was a struggle. If it's my Sportster, I say fuck it and cut the frame and make it match. But the guy asked for a bobbed fender and I took a chance to see if could make that one work easily then hope he likes it. If he didn't, then I could always bob the stock Sportster fender- no harm, no foul. Basically, the caveat was that the Softail fender required the frame to be much shorter than the bobbed Sportster fender.
In designing the tail light, I machined it to utilize a 16mm bolt LED. These are two wire LEDs that have really good brightness, especially with the magnifying lens. To use as a running light/brake light, however, you typically need a 3 wire light- ground/running/brake. What I have done instead, is create a circuit that will allow this two-wire light to be used. To do so, I used two Zener 12V 5W Axial Diodes, and a 1KΩ 5% 1/2W resistor on the running lights circuit.
I attach leads on each circuit to match the stock harness, paint everything with liquid tape, cover it all in shrink.
It's hard to get clear images to show the results with my camera because it's flooding the lens with so much light, but with a flash you get a decent idea. The first pic is the running light, and the second pic is the brake light.
It's a light emitting diode, yes, but but when you run reverse flow on them they blow. Without the Zener diodes, the LED would have a very short life. Not all diodes act the same.
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