XB12 SS Lightning both lights on - HID redux

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FROM MY POST IN "HID TIME DELAY MOD"
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wow, rewired it just as the wt website says to, works as it should, only i have no ability to switch to low or high. so i realized that i could have both on, and my own "timer" by just wiring the ballasts to the white (high beam) wire and black (ground) bam, they dont come on with the switch on low, and both come on with the switch on high, lovely. i never "flash" people, lol... pun intended... so ill just leave it. think the wires and fuses will hold up? running everything off the stock wires, thats it. should i carry a fire extinguisher? :/

i did the "dual on" mod, switching the yellow and orange wires in the male end of the HL harness... could this be a reason? your diagram says dual on mod, but doesnt show it, your wires go in and out the same pattern: B O W Y

I undid the dual mod as now i have both running off the white, high, and thats that.

i spent hours and hours on this, way bummed... i just dont get why one example works and for me it wont...

are buells negative switching or postive switching systems? at least the headlights... the wt relay can be either but you have to have it set for the correct one

my ideal end result would be turn on key, whatever light I have selected, Low or high, it comes on after a 15 second delay. also, low is low and high is low/high simultaneously. is this even possible?

argh... sorry for the crazyness... its damn 430am, ive got a final at 10am, im filthy and exhausted.... but frustrated more than anything...

Adamo
 
get some sleep and look at ALL of the diagrams. And yes, buells are a positive switched system.

I do NOT reccomend running 2 lights off of the white wire, HID or halogen. THIS IS NOT SAFE!!!

It's already bad enough that most of us are running both our headlights on the same ground, infact, when I get my bike back from the stealership, I am going to run a 2/14ga lead from the battery into my relay for source power.

Now... If you were paying attention, I rewired my flash-2-pass switch to feed the yellow wire momentarily to trigger the relay in the second diagram.

so that is why W O Y B come in, and go out.

for god sakes, STOP USING the white wire to power BOTH lights!!! If you like you buell and don't want to ruin your wiring harness, convert it back!
 
Here are m new Xentec 6000K HID's. Kit's are going on Ebay for only $39.99, They're really great quality. Be sure to order an H7 kit w/slim ballasts. A big thanks goes out to Kajer on the DIY thread, really great help. Love my new lights!

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6000k, even at 55 watts, is definitely blue.

I love my HID lights, but I do wish I'd stepped down to 4500k.
 
so i did this mod, to no avail, i have one beam only now, or the option to turn it completly off. and my flasher does nothing. :S am i a wiring idiot or could i mabye have a dead balast?
 
I'm a noob with electrical stuff. This is probabaly a really dumb question, but I need to ask. I have a 2010 XB9SX (I think there was a difference in the electrical system with the year of the bike). Would it mess up the electrical system or be unsafe in any way to simply connect two insulated wires from bulb to bulb (one connected to each post where it plugs in), so when one is on, the other is on too? In theory it should light both bulbs at the same time. The power to light both bulbs would come from either low or high beam, whichever is on.

Is this a stupid idea? I don't want to find out the hard way by frying my electrical system or something like that.
 
I'm a noob with electrical stuff. This is probabaly a really dumb question, but I need to ask. I have a 2010 XB9SX (I think there was a difference in the electrical system with the year of the bike). Would it mess up the electrical system or be unsafe in any way to simply connect two insulated wires from bulb to bulb (one connected to each post where it plugs in), so when one is on, the other is on too? In theory it should light both bulbs at the same time. The power to light both bulbs would come from either low or high beam, whichever is on.

Is this a stupid idea? I don't want to find out the hard way by frying my electrical system or something like that.
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REALLY BAD IDEA

You'd be doubling your current load on your wirering. Why not just do the white wire mod? Ity's a 5 minute mod and requires nothing more then switching 2 wires?

~Mike....
 
What Buellerpilot said, do the white wire mod , it only took me 15 minutes to do both my bikes. I don't run HIDs on mine as i'm happy with the output with the dual light mod.
 
The white wire mod is simple but it leaves both lights on for bright lights only, and messes up the parking lights. I don't want that. I like what kajer did, with the delay on starting up, and both lights on for low and high. That's exactly what I want, but I get very confused with electrical diagrams and talk of relays and ballasts and stuff that I can't relate to. Confusion generates dumb questions and mistakes. I'm not quite ready to learn-as-I-go with this mod, but thanks for the replies. I might have to ask a few more dumb question before I'm ready to try it.
 
The white wire mod is simple but it leaves both lights on for bright lights only, and messes up the parking lights. I don't want that. I like what kajer did, with the delay on starting up, and both lights on for low and high.
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no,

Kajer does not have both lights on for low and high, what would be the purpose of that? They would be high all the time no matter what. He also has no timing device. His mod is for running a HID set up. Instead of running a delay, his lights simply stay OFF till he hits the high beam switch. This turns on the lights. Low beam is low beam, high beam is both lights.

If you want your parking lights (most US spec didnt even have the parking light bulb installed), then rig up a relay so your high beam uses both lights. Pretty simple to do, but as for having both lights on for low beam and high beam, WTH for? You make the high beam, low beam and flash all the same thing. Perhaps you were under the assumption these bikes had dual element bulbs? They dont, they are single element.

~Mike......
 
The low/high beam switch (the plastic switch on the handlebars) has a tiny position inbetween low and high beam were both headlights come on. At first it would jump to high beam only when going over bumps in the road. Now it stays put and I have everything I want. Low single beam, low & high on together, high single beam, and parking lights. I didn't have to change any wiring!
 

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