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Spot lights
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20-12-16, 05:23 PM
I just wondered as I'm crap with electronics too and I'm just looking for the simplest way to wire it all up. I think I'm going to just wire up directly to the battery and hope I don't ever forget to turn them off :lol
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20-12-16, 06:52 PM
(20-12-16, 05:23 PM)Fazer99 link Wrote: I just wondered as I'm crap with electronics too and I'm just looking for the simplest way to wire it all up. I think I'm going to just wire up directly to the battery and hope I don't ever forget to turn them off :lol You gotta be realistic about these things, YOU WILL forget, for whatever reason, it's just one of those things. How long for will then decide on whether you have any juice left in the battery to start the bike, probably in the middle of nowhere, when it's cold and raining. :lol
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20-12-16, 11:15 PM
(20-12-16, 05:17 PM)darrsi link Wrote: I bought a handlebar waterproof on/off switch, and the only place the fuze tap would fit was on my air horn wiring. Where's the piccies then - rules are rules :deal
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20-12-16, 11:20 PM
(20-12-16, 05:23 PM)Fazer99 link Wrote: I just wondered as I'm crap with electronics too and I'm just looking for the simplest way to wire it all up. I think I'm going to just wire up directly to the battery and hope I don't ever forget to turn them off :lol Mate - with a fuse tap it's a piece of piss. Will happily post up a how to. If you can wire a plug you can do this and ignition off will mean ALL off :thumbup
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20-12-16, 11:54 PM
(20-12-16, 11:20 PM)Frosties link Wrote: [quote author=Fazer99 link=topic=21527.msg248085#msg248085 date=1482251003] Mate - with a fuse tap it's a piece of piss. Will happily post up a how to. If you can wire a plug you can do this and ignition off will mean ALL off :thumbup [/quote] Out of curiosity which fuse did you share with the tap, and where?
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The photos don't really do it justice.
Bear in mind these are spot lights, and they are aiming downwards, they don't really spread the light like the headlight (should). So apart from daytime running lights, i wanted them for more light on the floor in front of me so i can have a better chance of seeing pot holes. I was gonna get brighter but these are just the 10 watt ones in Frosties link and they have proved to be more than good enough, plus after looking about i noticed they had an easier chance of movement for direction, plus fitted nice and easy on the radiatior on the top side screw, whereas most others needed a bar to be clamped to. Turns out the radiator bolts could be used again without the need to change them. And by pure luck i got the distance set spot on, without the need to adjust them again when it turned dark. The light distance is good but you'll note it's nowhere near the top of the drivers seat to dazzle or blind anyone. Think i have Philips Xtreme bulbs in my headlights, which are not cheap and highly recommended, yet the 2 spotlights still outperform them due to the crappy reflector housing in the headlight unit. This is a great mod for older bikes with naff lighting. First picture is with spotlights and (both) headlights. Second is just with (both) headlights. Concentrate more on the floor lighting, which as you can see is much "whiter and brighter",which is appropriate as my name is Daz. 
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21-12-16, 08:48 AM
(20-12-16, 11:20 PM)Frosties link Wrote: [quote author=Fazer99 link=topic=21527.msg248085#msg248085 date=1482251003] Mate - with a fuse tap it's a piece of piss. Will happily post up a how to. If you can wire a plug you can do this and ignition off will mean ALL off :thumbup [/quote] Yes please :thumbup However I have been known to even wire up a plug wrong so don't be suprised if you see a post with me stating "I got my mate to wire it up as I focked it up" :lol
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22-12-16, 07:48 PM
FROSTIES, i'm still curious as to which fuse you tapped into with the splitter gadget?
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22-12-16, 08:47 PM
Wire then directly into the side light circuit, when the side lights are on so are the LED spots, also the side lights stay on with the headlights, so LED light are still on with the headlights.
Switch the headlights off ,side lights and LED's still on, switch all light off LED's off. Leave all the lights on and switch the ignition off and all the lights go off anyway. It's impossible to leave them turned on wired this way. One less switch to go wrong, less clutter on the handle bars, less to wire up. Easy peasy. 
22-12-16, 09:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-12-16, 10:35 PM by fazersharp.)
(21-12-16, 12:10 AM)darrsi link Wrote: i wanted them for more light on the floor in front of me so i can have a better chance of seeing pot holes.Concentrate more on the floor lighting,WOW you really can see a lot more than before Picture below
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22-12-16, 09:51 PM
I tapped into sidelight circuit , put an inline 3 amp fuse, not sure if it was necessary then a switch to turn them on separately, But if I forget to switch them off they go off when I switch ignition off anyway.
Had them on for over a year now with no problems, not bad for about £25 for both lights, switch and wire.
22-12-16, 11:56 PM
(22-12-16, 09:30 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: [quote author=darrsi link=topic=21527.msg248107#msg248107 date=1482275425]WOW you really can see a lot more than before Picture below [/quote] Hahaha, crikey that's just a bit too good. :lol
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23-12-16, 01:39 AM
(22-12-16, 07:48 PM)darrsi link Wrote: FROSTIES, i'm still curious as to which fuse you tapped into with the splitter gadget? Liking the results fella - like me the crisp white light really does the job and I reckon lays down about as much light as a car :thumbup Wired mine into the heated grips circuit which had a separate fuse. The feed for the grips is via a relay from the rear brake circuit. I did try the tap in the central fuse box but found the cover wouldn't close properly.......was prepared to do this and simply gaffer tape the fuse box but changed my mind. Lots of ways as you know to wire these lights in as mentioned by others - depends on available time I suppose. I reckon if you went for the central fuse box and gaffer tape approach then you'd have it all done in an hour - allow double for wiring into other circuits.
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23-12-16, 07:29 AM
(22-12-16, 08:47 PM)tommyardin link Wrote: [size=1em]Wire then directly into the side light circuit, when the side lights are on so are the LED spots, also the side lights stay on with the headlights, so LED light are still on with the headlights.[/size] Side lights? Don't forget you have a different bike to me, so your fairing is a bit more advanced.
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23-12-16, 07:47 AM
(23-12-16, 01:39 AM)Frosties link Wrote: [quote author=darrsi link=topic=21527.msg248238#msg248238 date=1482432517] Liking the results fella - like me the crisp white light really does the job and I reckon lays down about as much light as a car :thumbup Wired mine into the heated grips circuit which had a separate fuse. The feed for the grips is via a relay from the rear brake circuit. I did try the tap in the central fuse box but found the cover wouldn't close properly.......was prepared to do this and simply gaffer tape the fuse box but changed my mind. Lots of ways as you know to wire these lights in as mentioned by others - depends on available time I suppose. I reckon if you went for the central fuse box and gaffer tape approach then you'd have it all done in an hour - allow double for wiring into other circuits. [/quote] As we found out the fuse box under the seat was a no go as the fuse tap doesn't fit into it at all unless you maybe start cutting a panel out of the lid somewhere which was really the thing to do. There was a wire with a fuse on already outside the fuse box that was part of my air horn wiring, so we used that. But as i said before, now the indicator beeping system only works with the spot lights switched off, then stop working with the lights switched on, which is a bit puzzling as we didn't go anywhere near or tamper with the beeper wiring at the front of the bike? I put the beeper indicating gadget on my bike because i was fed up with people walking out in front of me without looking as i was about to lean to turn into the road where i live. I either had to keep waiting for them to cross before me, or use the air horn on them, but what i found with the air horn was that people did a little panic dance deciding whether to go backwards or forwards, or it would just simply make them jump. It all got a bit like Groundhog Day so i decided to put the beeper on to pre-warn them i'm approaching. It works most of the time and has been a big improvement, but for those special ones that just don't look or listen they still get the full air horn blast to wake them up. :evil
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23-12-16, 10:36 AM
The beeper issue is a weird one. Worked fine before the spots were wired in but now works with lights off but not when they are on....WTF.
Do you know how the beeper is wired in....from the indicator relay?
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23-12-16, 08:08 PM
(22-12-16, 11:56 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=fazersharp link=topic=21527.msg248246#msg248246 date=1482438635]WOW you really can see a lot more than before Picture below [/quote] Hahaha, crikey that's just a bit too good. :lol [/quote] I couldn't resist, it was crying out for it
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24-12-16, 09:38 AM
If your bike doesn't have a sidelight supply /sidelights you can wire the spots into the live supply that goes to the dipswitch, the negative wire goes to the chassis of the bike
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24-12-16, 09:49 AM
(23-12-16, 08:08 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: [quote author=darrsi link=topic=21527.msg248261#msg248261 date=1482447413]WOW you really can see a lot more than before Picture below [/quote] Hahaha, crikey that's just a bit too good. :lol [/quote] I couldn't resist, it was crying out for it [/quote] Hey Sharpie I bet you do brisk business in wedding photographs, you know! make the bride look good and all that stuff. Or do you work for the police incriminating innocent people lol! Great bit of work :thumbup I love it :lol |
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