Reverse light options

[Ricko1966]

I've got my solution installed, can't really get any pics of it because mother nature just blasted us with about 4" of snow here in central Mass. Used a street bike reverse switch like in post #24 and just have it temporarily attached to the shifter bracket and the R/1 shifter linkage. She just needs to work at least once while it's in the inspection bay, beyond that it doesn't matter.

I've never owned a street bike that had reverse,are sure you aren't talking about the kick stand switch? Do some street bikes really have reverse now?

 

[83Stepper]

I've never owned a street bike that had reverse,are sure you aren't talking about the kick stand switch? Do some street bikes really have reverse now?

Sorry, brake light switch. Auto-generated predictive text on the phone thinks that I'm talking about a reverse switch still. Updated original post about the switch, silly phones lol.

 

[Dejure]

Nothing stops me from putting in a bypass switch that will kick the backup lights on even as the backup light shifter switch yet works. HOWEVER, I would put a nice, bright LED indicator light to show I've turned them on, in hopes of avoiding a ticket for driving down the road with them on.

 

[Ricko1966]

Nothing stops me from putting in a bypass switch that will kick the backup lights on even as the backup light shifter switch yet works. HOWEVER, I would put a nice, bright LED indicator light to show I've turned them on, in hopes of avoiding a ticket for driving down the road with them on.

Get a lighted toggle switch,or put an LED where ever you want,ground one side hook the other side to the switched power for the backup lights. If you have power to the backup lights,the LED while have power also. We could also install a backup alarm,to remind you to look at the LED.

 

[Dejure]

Mixed emotions on the warning. Like it, so I wouldn't forget and leave them on, going down the road. I'd be removing it the day after using it to do something in back of the truck.

On the rockers, I do a lot of unique, custom woodwork. My entire interior (dash, glove box cover, ashtray cover, stereo frame, overhead console (gauges), dash, lower door panels and so on were all wood. First pine, to get the feel (it actually looked kick butt), then mahogany.

To pull that off, I had to mount all the gauges, including the stock speedometer and fuel gauge in the new dash, doing away with the circuit board. Not being overly foolish, I had high beam and turn indicators (I used 24 volt lights, so they would have lasted a bazillion years).

Switches for some of the equipment, including replacing an inoperative heater switch, included lighted rockers. They, well, ROCKED. Way ROCKED.

IF you don't mind slightly dimmer bulbs, put a few ohms in front of [or after] the switch bulbs, if they allow it, to add years to their life.

SIDE NOTE: The reason the Edison bulb is yet burning in a fire station is, it's being run at a lower voltage than it is designed to run at (over a 100 years going, now).

In the end, adding the ability to turn the backups on when the rig is not in reverse is far easier than we might be indicating.

 

[AuroraGirl]

Mixed emotions on the warning. Like it, so I wouldn't forget and leave them on, going down the road. I'd be removing it the day after using it to do something in back of the truck.

On the rockers, I do a lot of unique, custom woodwork. My entire interior (dash, glove box cover, ashtray cover, stereo frame, overhead console (gauges), dash, lower door panels and so on were all wood. First pine, to get the feel (it actually looked kick butt), then mahogany.

To pull that off, I had to mount all the gauges, including the stock speedometer and fuel gauge in the new dash, doing away with the circuit board. Not being overly foolish, I had high beam and turn indicators (I used 24 volt lights, so they would have lasted a bazillion years).

Switches for some of the equipment, including replacing an inoperative heater switch, included lighted rockers. They, well, ROCKED.

IF you don't mind slightly dimmer bulbs, put a few ohms in front of [or after] the switch bulbs, if they allow it, to add years to their life.

SIDE NOTE: The reason the Edison bulb is yet burning in a fire station is, it's being run at a lower voltage than it is designed to run at (over a 100 years going, now).

In the end, adding the ability to turn the backups on when the rig is not in reverse is far easier than we might be indicating.

gmt800 with DRL there is a TSB to use bulbs that are designed to be either 18 or 24 or 28 volts (somewhere in there) so that they dont burn out so quickly

 

[Dejure]

100%, aURORAgIRL.

oPPs. tHE cAPS wAS oN.

At the time I built my custom dash, I worked for the federal guberment, in electronics. We threw a lot of stuff away. Or not. One of the things I grabbed was, 24 volt NEON lights. My truck was fifteen years in, when I sold it, and the lights were still working great. I suspect they had another hundred years, give or take five, in them.