DIY - LED Mirror Indicators

[Ol]

Decided to make some LED Mirror indicators, i know that they can be bought for £25 ish, but fancied trying to make some to see how they'd turn out...

bought some new mirrors from e-gay for a massive £6.50 :

https://i.ebayimg.com/15/!B9z1J0QCWk~$(KGrHqF,!jUEzKMW-kJMBM628KCRLw~~0_12.JPG

and some LEDs also from ebay, 10x for £8 - bargain, got some "superbright" orange ones.

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/171220101274.jpg

first job was to mark out and drill the holes for the LEDS - the paint chipped all round the holes, but this didn't matter too much as the leds will cover most of it :

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/171220101273.jpg

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/171220101275.jpg

Then to "feed" the wires through the first hole, and pull out the second, the lights will be wired up in series, purely for ease !!

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/171220101276.jpg

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/171220101272.jpg

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/171220101271.jpg

once all lights were in and connected, i tested on my mouse PSU, only 8v but worked well enough:


https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/171220101281.jpg

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/171220101277.jpg


Sorted.

Then removed the mirrors from the SV, and went about fixing these.. i'll need to sort some way of removing the rubber covers from the storks on the old mirrors and putting over these to cover up the bolts and wiring, (also fitted new black bubble screen whilst i was workin on the bike)

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/181220101295.jpg

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/181220101298.jpg

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/181220101300.jpg

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/181220101296.jpg



haven't wired them in yet, as i need to get hold of some resistors to sort out the flash rate before removing the old indi's.. but generally, quite happy with my £14 mirrors !!!!
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[Bikeless]

They look alright,nice little mod,

[Whosthedaddy]

Should have got smaller ones and put them in the shape of an arrow pointing the direction of the flash.

Looks like a cool idea.
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[chris-red]

You can buy a flasher unit that works with LEDs and bulbs together I have on on my S4, much better than using resistors.
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[Ichy]

[andym]

I know eff all about lights and stuff so forgive the stupid question here.... can't you just connect the wires to the old indicator wires?

I like that suggestion for arranging lights into arrow shapes.

They look good but my only criticism on them is that they would have looked better if they were flush with the mirror.... but that's only my opinion

[Ichy]

Incandescent indicators draw about 4 -6 amps, leds (at a guess) are probably closer to 1.
If the bike is fitted with a mechanical relay the LEDs will not provide enough load to control the flash rate, they will flash too fast. An electronic relay will work at loads from 0.2a up to about 20a so will flash at a constant rate irrespective of the type of bulbs fitted.

Not all good though, its hard to know if one of your indicators has failed unless you check them.

[Ol]

[D O G]

Reasonable idea, but how good are the new mirrors? I've had cheapos which vibrate to buggery, rendering them useless.

[andym]

Realistically does anyone actually use mirrors anyway D O G? Or is that just my bad habit?

Sorry OI? I was just being picky.... I'm a perfectionist.... I would lose weeks of sleep with something like that.

Anyway after a couple of seconds of thought (and a couple of beers), I would like to have a couple of lines of LED's in the mirror that when you click the indicator it would show as running LED's (not sure of the correct term but would look like, for example if indicating right and with an 8 LED set-up, start at bulb 1 and light the rest of the sequence so it looks like it's pointing in the direction you're turning).... spent so long typing this post I haven't got an effin clue what I'm going on about..... hmmm... long hours and too much beeer (and wine)

[Ichy]

Something like this?
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_6/chpt_7/6.html

https://www.satcure.co.uk/movies/MVI_2021.AVI

[PsychoHippy]

A simple trick to stop the paint chipping when you drill it is to use masking tape. Put the tape over the area you are going to drill, then measure and mark on to the tape. Leave the tape there while you drill and then remove it, jobs a good 'un
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[Phoenix]

Nice idea and similar to something I tried to do to the rear lights of my American car that had no indicators, however, it looks far too DIY the way it's been done and therefore i'm not a fan, think the GSXR style mirrors with indicators in would've looked better. You really need to clean your bike though first, especially the exhaust!

[Ol]

[Ol]

Also - have now added the rubber cover / sleeve from the origional mirrors, and think it looks a lot better :

https://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af282/Oliver7978/231220101323.jpg
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[mibman2003]

Looks great mate...well done!
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[0l0dom0l0]

Don't know if its been said but you can connect them in parallel with the current indicators and have both working at the same time. Shouldn't affect the flash rate atall.

[Mrs Vale46]

Sorry I dont mean to be rude, but that doesnt look very nice. Good work manship done by yourself I cant go against that. But it looks slightly tackie sorry

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