Tail and Head Light Modulator

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Tail and Head Light Modulator

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I promised myself I would buy a headlight and taillight modulator for the new bike (Rear end me once, shame on you, rear end me twice, shame on me.) Got it from Comagination, they had a package deal if you bought both. I feel safer already :!: Hopefully I am safer. It's hard to judge what people are thinking with the flashing tail light, but I can definitely see the reaction to the flashing high beam. I can see people looking and checking their mirrors when I go down the street or come up behind them. I think I get more people moving out of my way when I come up behind them. Maybe they don't like a flashing light in their mirrors, or they think I'm a cop or something (I guess having the ED 80 colors doesn't hurt that illusion). Mission accomplished.

Tell you what, if you do get the Comagination headlight kit, be prepared to do some wire splicing. The Rock, being that it has two separate lights, doesn't have the usual headlight connector. So, what would normally be a plug and play operation turns into a wire tracing and splicing job.

I thought about the best place to splice the unit in (it's not very large, about 1" diameter by 1" high), decided that I didn't want a wire mess right behind my headlight, so decided to pull the tank and splice under there.

The pain was tracing the wires so that I could cut them and splice in. The positive was relatively easy because it was the only white wire running through that wire lume, but there were like five grounds, and of course since they are all connected... (Ah... to ground) trying to probe with a multimeter to trace the wire didn't work. So, had to manually trace the wire, which pretty much meant slitting the casing off the lume almost along it's entire length from the headlight to under the tank.. So, what should have been a 15 minute job turned into a couple hours by the time I had the wires traced, the unit spliced in, and the wire lume taped back together.

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Thanks for the advice Ves. I'm planning to do some work on my Rock this winter (new QDs, air horn, fuse block) and tail lights were on the list. May do the modulator as well, and it's good to see someone doing this with the Rockster.
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Ves- Comagination combo looks like a good deal compared to Kisan. Should I assume your choice was based on your uncanny ability to find a bargain?
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sweatmark wrote:Ves- Comagination combo looks like a good deal compared to Kisan. Should I assume your choice was based on your uncanny ability to find a bargain?
Safe assumption for sure... ;)
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jfslater98 wrote:Thanks for the advice Ves. I'm planning to do some work on my Rock this winter (new QDs, air horn, fuse block) and tail lights were on the list. May do the modulator as well, and it's good to see someone doing this with the Rockster.
Speaking of tail lights... the previous owner installed a clear lens tail light kit, lit up by red LED's. Really looks nice with the clear turn signals. But also, that LED is significantly brighter than a normal tail light, and then when it flashes... wow.. you can't miss it... apparently not all tail light modulators work with LED's
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I installed one of these on my Ed 80 as well. Works a treat! The folks at comagination said to NOT hook up the low-beam as it would cause problems since it stays on when the hi-beam it lit.
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