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Tiger 800 tail light attachment

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#1 · (Edited)
I'm looking to splice a wire to rear brake lights for an undermount LED system. (Got an Ambother LED kit but 0 directions. It turns all the LEDs red upon brake press if I connect 1 extra blue wire.) I attached a photo of the rear signal cavity for my triumph tiger 800 xrt 2016.

2 questions:
FIrst does the white plastic part in the photo which holds down the taillight connector detach? Mine was taped down to the rectangular, white plastic piece which has a rubber washer underneath. It took 20 minutes of fiddling for the harness to come off. Still can't get the plastic part off. (I'm not trying to break things.)


Second question and more importantly since I want my new blue wire to get signaled when the brakes are pressed, which of the 3 wires should I splice into?
How do I tell which wire is powered?
(Green/purple,black,white)
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#3 ·
Standard convention is that black is the ground wire. You'll need to check the others.

The problem you are likely to face is that a 2016 bike will be Canbus electrics, which does not take kindly to having extra things spliced in like this. I'm new to Triumph so this might need confirmation from somebody familiar with the brand. The canbus system is constantly checking the operation of each component and if it finds a voltage drop it doesn't expect it throws a code. If you are wanting to add extra lights then chase up with the supplier that they can be fitted to a canbus bike without this problem.
 
#4 ·
So I found this in another thread...

Yellow is the running light (hot when the key is on).
Green/Violet is the brake light (hot when the brakes are applied).
Black is ground.

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And after further evaluation I have those color wires. Looks like I will attempt to splice the green/violet wire just before the quick connection to the brake light.

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#9 ·
I spliced using Posi-Taps into the brake and turn signal wiring when adding LEDs with no adverse effect. Canbus is not an issue on the 2016 Tiger. I was initially concerned that adding the LEDs would tax the circuit and blow a fuse but the draw is so low that there was no discernable effect.