Wiring help

[Sandbagger]

I'm a newbie to vehicular wiring so I can use a little help.

Bought some new fairings and extras.

My front wheel cover has a riding light with two wires running on the underside.

Question 1) How should I run electricity to this light?

 

I have a rear riding lights. (The big chrome things with about a half dozen small riding lights) They have 2 wires coming out of them. I have taken off all the fairings so I can see the wiring clip assembly that goes to the back light. It is actually disconnected right now.

Question 2) How should I run electricity to the riding lights?

 

Question 3) Amp load? (I'm really out of my league here) I do not run a radio. Wouldn't mind having a cigarette lights for running a GPS. With the addition of the extra lights do I have to worry if I have enough amps. (I do not have driving lights though I am considering them)

 

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply and help me.

 

Bob

[sarges46]

Bob

 

I had some extra lights on the front and rear of my 89. These bikes are notorious for bad charging systems. I went with larger guage battery cables which helped a little with the hot start issues. The bike would not charge properly when I put 55 watt "passing" lights on the front so I changed them to 35 watts.

 

It worked. Those were wired with a relay and switch directly to the battery.You have got to remember to turn them off! I didnt and toasted a battery over night.

 

The smaller lights in front and rear where just hooked up to the nearest power source. If that rear one is disconnected I would wonder why. Maybe it was pulling too much power.

 

I installed a cigarette lighter on the black plastic part of the fairing right beside the handle bar. This worked well and a gps or mp3 doesnt draw much power at all.

 

You could also change all the little lights to LED which will decrease the load considerably.

[Wizard765]

I have the lights in the caliper cover on the front brakes as well as a chrome "bumper" on the rear of the bike. I changed all the lights to LEDs. They are brighter and draw next to nothing. Got them at Superbright LED...

I also have highway lights that I got from Wallmart. They are small Platinum Burners that came with 55 watt bulbs. I changed them to 35 watt bulbs that I got at Lowes.

Burners were $16 and bulbs were $6 each.

I have no problem with charging and I feel the bike is well lit up.

Wireing the running lights I ran a fused power cable from the battery and used relays then tied into the running light, brake light and signal etc to enable the relays. No drain on the system and all power comes directly from the battery.

I also used a relay for the highway lights with a switch but also tied into the ignition so the lights go off even if I forget to switch them off (which I did a few time before I changed to that system). Everything is working awsome and the way it was planned.

Not hard to do but takes a little time.

 

Wayne

[Sandbagger]

Thanks for the great ideas.

This web site saves my can.

Bob

[6m459]

I'm a newbie to vehicular wiring so I can use a little help.

Bought some new fairings and extras.

My front wheel cover has a riding light with two wires running on the underside.

Question 1) How should I run electricity to this light?

 

I ran a black wire spiraled down the speedometer cable to power mine. (Ordinarily I like to use red wires for +12V but in this case I wanted it to be less noticeable and so used black.)

 

Hope this is helpful.

 

Brian H.

[camos]

The bike would not charge properly when I put 55 watt "passing" lights on the front so I changed them to 35 watts.

 

It worked. Those were wired with a relay and switch directly to the battery.You have got to remember to turn them off! I didnt and toasted a battery over night.

When I installed my 55w fog lights, the relay was powered from the front turn signal circuit so the fogs go off when the ignition is off. I did run the fog circuit through a switch as well so I had the option of turning them off independently.