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Aussiexbox
| Posted on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 12:16 am: |
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Okay you bunch of technichal guru's,has anybody got a wiring diagram for putting set of spottie's on the bike,I am running standard hella FF100's as we can't get much in the way of HID down here,but I have wired them as per wiring for a car(reason being was I have just wired a set to the car.......it worked!)but I keep blowing inline fuses and headlight fuses this way on the bike,is there something to do with the switch and the lights running all the time,that causes this? I am about to take them off and go with putting a set of HID's into the mains,and doing away with the spotties all together. Cheers Phil |
Ronmold
| Posted on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 02:14 am: |
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Good choice, I'm sure you can get some HID's off the Aussie Ebay. |
Darthane
| Posted on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 08:52 am: |
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It sounds like you might be running your Hella's off of the main low beam feed with no relay? Inserting a relay into the supply line for the aux lights (getting that feed directly from the battery B+ with an appropriately-sized inline fuse on it) and using the low beam feed to power the relay coil will likely get rid of your fusing issues. |
Ratbuell
| Posted on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 11:51 am: |
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You should be wired thusly with a relay: Relay powered by the battery, with a fuse as close to the battery as possible Trigger wire from relay (through switch if you want) to ignition switched source - I feed mine off the high beam so the aux lights only come on with hi beam Power outlet from the relay to the lights themselves Ground the relay Ground the lights This keeps the main draw off any other circuit on the bike, and keeps it in the relay. The trigger wire is only that - a "trigger". If it sees voltage (it doesn't draw much current), it flips the "switch" inside the relay and opens the high voltage gate from the battery, thru the relay, to the lights. If you put a seperate switch on the trigger wire, you have the ability to disable the entire system by cutting off power to the "gate" - it's like the trigger circuit you're using was never turned on. |
Xbimmer
| Posted on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 12:10 pm: |
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These can give you an idea:
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Don't worry about the colors described, the current pathways are what you're learning about. |
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