Tail/Brake light wiring

[MisterCinders]

I swapped out my old tail-light for an LED job.

The new one has a plate light that I won't use because it's covered up in that mounting. I will probably rig up some kind of reflective tape or cover to bounce that light back into the tail-light.

Here is my problem. It looks like I have the brake light and running light set up backwards. The running tail-light works fine. When I hit the brake, however, it does not seem brighter. Instead, it seems to trigger the plate light (which is covered and washes out). Is this just a wire shuffle? Consider the relevant diagram:

Top to bottom the wires are white, brown and black/white.

When I try to shuffle them to reverse the result (i.e., plate light as running and bigger red lights as brake), other combinations give no lights.

Can someone identify what these three wires do (i.e., ground, brake, running)? Or is there another spot in the wiring to explore for this?

TIA

 

[Steve]

Do you have the wiring functions for your new light?

On the bike:
WHITE wire is BRAKE
BROWN wire is TAIL
BLACK/WHITE is GROUND

And before anybody says "you need load resistors to get it to work right", no you don't.
If this light is designed to be used on a vehicle that uses a 12-volt system, it will already be set up to handle that.
The load resistors are only for the turn signals to load the (stock) thermal flasher so it works.

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[MisterCinders]

Cool. Looks like reversing the white and brown wires will do the trick. Thanks.