Burnt out tail light

[BigNorm]

Hey Norm, This may not apply to yours being a Touring but let me tell you what happened to me. Mine's a 05 Standard so has the (2) 5 3/4 Lamps that I believe come with 60W bulbs from factory. So before I switched them out for the LED'S I bought a couple of 90/110W "Hi Intensity" bulbs so that the sh!tty OEMs would actually put out some light.......... No difference
Anyway, left em in there & after a few weeks, as I was trippin down the slab one day I start smelling that non mistakable smell of electrical burn - couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Next morning as it was still dark out I notice one of the lights was out so I disassembled it & the plug end had been melting to the point the wire end plugs were shorting on each other. Checked the other one & it was on its way. So I replaced the H4 plug ends & put the 60W bulbs back in with no problems, ran em until I put in the LED's.
So the Triumph factory H4 connectors are not rated for higher Watt bulbs (On the Standard Rocket anyway) - They do make aftermarket ceramic heat resistant plug ends that you could wire in it's place.
Thought I'd pass that on to you

Here'so to hopin' it continues to work.

 

[cr0ft]

My understanding is no Canbus is needed if either its just the tail light bulb you are replacing or you already have a load equalizer. Anyone know if thats correct?

CANBUS doesn't really enter into the picture for Rockets at all as the bike doesn't have that, but those LED's I linked to are CANBUS compatible. Works fine on the Rocket too.

Not super bright in tail light mode, but light up to 400 lumen when braking which isn't too bad.

Load equalizers are only required for turn indicators if you're going LED (or rather, the Touring model must have load equalizers because you can't replace the relay as the bike has turn signal canceling functionality; the other Rockets have a traditional indicator relay you can replace with a load-independent relay.)

 

[Old N' Grumpy]

@Croft...thank you for the clarification.