• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
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  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

license plate relocate legal in ca?

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14te449

Husqvarna
B Class
is this legal since there's no license plate light?
 

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you have two different questions: yes the relocation is okay; but, no, the law says you gotta have a white light that makes the plate visible from 50' (IIRC) away at night.

In the real world, daytime is no problem, and at night your LED tail will glow off the plate pretty darn good- so no cop is gonna give you trouble, unless you're asking for it (or live in a small town where the cops don't have anything better to do). I hear in SoCal the BLM might occasionally hassle you but I have no experience with that.

Bottom line- don't worry about it. really.

...and if that's not you- get a pair of those license plate bolts with LEDs in 'em. Splice one (or two) into your taillight [~30mA draw, IOW: nothing] and you're legal. (but the light shouldn't be shining backwards at following drivers)

I did this on my street legal XR400 because sometimes I come out of the hills after dark... and lic plate lights violations are a big reason to pull people over here (to give 'em a DUI, which is a major industry here- not for fix-it tickets). I DID shine the small LED backwards just enough so our bored cops could see I had a working light. I live in a very rural area too (my county is bigger than Connecticut but only has 40K people total).

My TE310 has the same basic setup as yours w/o a plate light.
 
14te449 said:
Nice I didn't even know about the led license plate bolt. Is splicing the only way to wire them
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I spliced a plug onto the license plate light and then plugged it into the harness on my ZX-14R. I run without a light on the TE630.

Like so (the black post poking down from the top of the tail):

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I should be able to splice a plug to the license plate light and plug it into where the oem license plate light plugs in?
 
14te449 said:
.... Is splicing the only way to wire them
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well, splicing into the taillight wires (not the brake light) is definitely the easiest- both wires are only 6" away.

But seriously... you're not gonna need a license plate light.

[whoops- look like you guys posted about 5 min before me. If you're determined to do this, hack the old plug off & splice it on to your new plate light. It ain't rocket surgery; OTOH... polarity matters on LEDs]
 
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