Givi V46 reflector area and LEDs

[fialdj]

I have a Givi V46 top box on my FJR, as many do. And like many the 4 crappy brake lights have burned out again. I'm going to he LED conversion like someone has created in the past. when I was looking at it I wondered if the much larger corner reflector areas could be lit up somehow. Does anyone have an ideas of how LEDs could be used?

Thanks, Dave

 

[Toecutter]

Never heard of anybody doing something like that, but I added a brakeflasher to mine, just under the mounting base, to augment the awesome Fred H. LED array.

 

[SPORT]

I have a Givi V46 top box on my FJR, as many do. And like many the 4 crappy brake lights have burned out again. I'm going to he LED conversion like someone has created in the past. when I was looking at it I wondered if the much larger corner reflector areas could be lit up somehow. Does anyone have an ideas of how LEDs could be used?
Thanks, Dave

This is a task for Super 72! :assassin:

Pinging Wild72.

 

[Wild72]

Dave,

I had the same thoughts as yourself a little while back, and did just that exact modification.

Full details can be found here.

I have yet to get around to taking some night-time pics, but it works like a charm, and was very inexpensive.

Edit: Seems the above link has a problem, here is a different one, but still with the same content.

 

[ahchiu]

A sugesstion for you guys before you add the led lights, cover the plastic part with 3M Solas reflective tape, it really lights up, mine reflected 1 block away with a flashlight looks like a brake light, I did this with my E52 and added the Admore lighting kit along with a Kissan brake flasher

 

[Checkswrecks]

I've got the 52 and simply used the little flexible LED strips that were on sale at Advance Auto. Fit with no problem under the red plastic corner pieces, but I did have to drill a small hole for each to feed the wire into the box and down to a connector.