Fitting Spotlights

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The one wire I cut into was soldered. and then wrapped in heat shrink. 


All other connections were made using insulated bullet connectors which were then wrapped in heat shrink.  I then wrapped the lot in electrical tape so there are no connectors exposed.  It'll be a nightmare to unpick should anything fail.


As for the issue of potential damage with the spots mounted on the rad.......I've no immediate plans to lay my bike down on it's side.  Fingers crossed.


Having recently undertaken the fitting of both spotlights and heated grips I'm now in the position of being able to impart my knowledge if anybody else is seeking guidance.


For info the grips I used were the cheap Chinese type from Ebay.  I did so on the recommendation of a work colleague who rated them. 
Tell you what....they're pretty good, had to turn them down after 5 mins this morning.  They were only a tenner.  Only issue is that it's a throttle tube and grip in one and for some reason the collar for holding the cables was about 1mm too thick so when clamped down the throttle wouldn't release smoothly.  2 minutes with a file and jobs a good en.  It's probably something peculiar to the throttle cable clamp on the FZS as my mate has a Kwak and he had no such issue.

You could turn everything on and feel if the brown/blue wire is getting hot. If it is then use a relay to power the accessories. It's easy to add one in. Just connect the wire that's coming off the blue/brown to the control side of the relay, then the other side of the control to ground. Then connect a wire from battery+ to the relay switch, then the other side of the switch to your accessories. It means the extra current to power the accessories is coming straight from the battery through the relay rather than going through the bike wiring.