I'm trying to increase the visibility of my 2008 C14. I've already changed the turn signals to LEDs with a solid state relay to avoid hyperflashing, installed an auxiliary tail / brake light with a flasher unit, changed the city lights to very bright amber LEDs, and changed the headlights to the Evitek G6 H4 LEDs. So far so good.
I still feel as though the front could use some help. I'll eventually add the Skene Photon Blaster or similar, but for something higher up on the bike I've been considering switchbacks. Problem is that the weird BAU15S base on our turn signals greatly limits the options. There are the Triton V3s but ouch - spendy.
Came across these on Amazon:
BAU15S Switchback LEDsIt's something of a kludge as they're going for "plug and play". Best I can tell, the LED bulb and holder itself is a direct fit replacement for the original; the original bulb is removed from its holder and replaced with the small silver plug in piece; the white wire needs to be spliced into a switched source (city lights would be ideal I think); and the rest is an inline resistor to prevent hyperflashing.
Given that many of us who've gone the LED route already have LED-compatible solid state relays in place, the resistor seems pointless. Also the only reason that I can see for the silver plug in to the original bulb holder is to inline the resistor and save splicing the wires.
Is my thinking correct in that you could simply cut the red and black wires on the bulb side of the resistor, cut the wires to the original bulb holder, and wire ground to ground, positive to positive, with the white wire spliced into the city lights? This would be much neater in both appearance and function (reduced load without the unnecessary resistor). $26.99 or even less on Ali Express is much more wife friendly than $200 for the Tritons

