Method: I removed the horn cover, mirrors, and headset per standard instructions available here on MV without issue. My plan was to simply run wire from the US-spec "pod" wires (the turn signals) down to the legshield lights and leave the DRL wires out of the picture. As best as I can tell, they are not part of the same circuit. To accomplish this, I had to snip off the plugs (or "connectors") to the pods, and I soldered wire to the newly exposed ends. I ran that wire down the legshield and soldered it to the connector that goes to the legshield lights.
Results: All blinkers work as they should, only there's a new symptom I did not previously have: the rate of blinking of the turn signals (front and rear) is RPM-dependant!
Hopefully, I've just overlooked something simple that a person with more electrical know-how than I would've caught, like needing to add a resistor inline or the like, but I am stumped. Where did I go wrong?
Cliff Notes version: U.S. LXs come from the factory with afterthought turn signal "pods" mounted below the handlebars. The legshield lights are daytime running lights, whereas in the rest of the world, they are the only turn signals. I opened up my bike and simply made the existing blinkers blink further away, where they're supposed to, by running longer wire from the existing leads. The blinkers now are RPM dependent. WTH?
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