[GSMacLean]

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I won't bore you by going into the technical details of why it's happening, but I did mine as well, and solved the problem by putting resistors in parallel with the LEDs.

On the two cruise lights, I used 1K, 1/4 watt resistors. For the low fuel light, I used a 470 ohm, 1/2 watt (important!) resistor.

The low fuel light I recently discovered still comes on very slightly at high ambient temperatures, so I might recommend going even a bit lower with that one, perhaps 400 ohms or so.

 

[GSMacLean]

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pwhoever wrote:

For those particular bulb sockets, they can be reached without having to pull the dash. Take off the ignition cover and you may possubly have to remove those 2 long covers next to the radio surround but then you can reach in under the dash and remove them. It's a little tight but doable

You have to remove the dash if you're going to put resistors on those three LEDs though.

 

[GSMacLean]

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I just sliced into the wires leading to the LEDs themselves, put the resistors in place, and heat-shrink-tubed it back together.

I like your idea about the diffuser - I've got hot spots on my gauges right now for exactly that reason. I had meant to fix it before putting it all back together...but forgot. And now that it's all together and it's nice riding weather, well, let's just say I'm less than motivated to do something about it right now. I'll fix it once the weather goes bad at the end of the season.

I did replace ALL of the lights in my dash with LEDs. The impetus to do it in the first place was the fact that I had three lights burned out. I just don't want to have to pull the dash apart again to replace them in future.

The high beam is fairly bright, but not super bright at night - and when I'm riding, the chin bar of my helmet blocks those lights unless I actually look down, so I'm not that worried about it. Maybe I'll diffuse it the same way I do the dash lights in the fall.

By the way, I love your garage door opener - I have the exact same thing on my bike:

Even down to the wires coming out the side and the black zip tie holding it all together. I have mine mounted differently however. The remote itself is mounted under the badge on the ignition key bridge, and I have a momentary-off-momentary SPDT switch mounted up next to the ignition key (also on the bridge) that lets me open either garage door.