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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2013 22:20:33 GMT 10
Was gonna get this tonight then saw all the different ones ... hmm confused. I know I need a H4 but the Wattage as confusing me ... can anyone help? In my manual it says my bulb is 60/55W, most of what I can find on ebay are 35W and have two bulbs ... I thought I only had one Really I'm not blonde ...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 5:52:48 GMT 10
Was gonna get this tonight then saw all the different ones ... hmm confused. I know I need a H4 but the Wattage as confusing me ... can anyone help? In my manual it says my bulb is 60/55W, most of what I can find on ebay are 35W and have two bulbs ... I thought I only had one Really I'm not blonde ... On pH now, will send you a link tonight on the one I got. Spinal may beat me to it if he is looking though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 7:14:18 GMT 10
Ta Ray .. if I can work out how to find messages now .. I'm sure it will tell me tho eh
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 18:57:05 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 19:12:53 GMT 10
Thanks Ray that's so much easier than searching myself Yeah found the messages while I was looking at stuff this evening .. I love this new look .. more things to play with
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 20:34:00 GMT 10
Well I got the HID kit that Ray linked and it sat on my desk for a couple of weeks before I got the courage to start pulling things apart. So after asking Ray more questions about it all and getting a prompt reply from him (as usual, thanks heaps Ray, I dont know what I'd do without ya ) including pics, I decided that I'd better get off my haunches and do it this weekend. As usual, what is said by other people to be a 20 minute job took me about 3 hours to finish, so I thought I'd post a little run down of the bits that made my life a tad difficult. First thing was to take off the plastic cover around the front of the bike that hides the wiring. One screw each side, then there's a little clip at the top of them that holds them together, now it has been said that you need to take the tank off to do this but Ray assured me that it could be done with a bit of careful jiggling, and it can, I kinda slid one side back while sliding the other side forwards and pushing on the metal clip with a tiny screwdriver. Not too hard just fiddly. Next was taking apart the light, undo two screws again .. and now here's where I went a bit off course .. then you just pull the bottom of the front of the light til it pulls out a bit then let it down to let out the clip thingy at the top of the light. I couldn't figure this bit out at first and found another screw that I turned and turned for ages til I realised I was turning the light adjustment screw .. opps. At this stage I got out the bike manual and did it the right way. This is what you are presented with ... There isn't a lot of room in there and the kit comes with a hellova lot more to try to hide away somewhere ... This is what you get ... You just have to connect all that up and Bob's ya uncle .. yeah right. They give you instructions, that are kinda useful even if they are basic but the plugs will really only go one way except one which is from the ballast. A two pin plug that doesn't have anything on it to indicate which way it goes. The instructions do say to turn that plug around if the light doesn't light up once connected. So I put it all together on the guard and tested it before starting the jigsaw puzzle that is finding somewhere to put all this extra stuff. Turned on the ignition and nothing ... turn the plug around and turn on again .. nothing .. hmm. Pull it all apart while reading the meager instructions again ... it says that the wires on my bike might be different to the main plug and I will have to rewire the plug if it doesn't work ... grrr. Put it all together again and try once more before resorting to rewiring. Yay we have light !!! So now I had to pull some of the plugs back apart and feed them through the hole, and push and shove to fit the connections in the light. Plug everything back together and do some more pushing and shoving and re-arranging and finally the light would fit back into the cover. I had the ballast and the relay still outside to work on but the worst part by far was trying to get the silly little screws and their little dress thingys back into the light. So after fiddling with that for a while .. nope I didn't find an easy way it's a case of having to have 6 hands to hold the light together and hold the stupid little dress thingy in place (that just wants to drop down onto the pavers and get lost) while lining up holes and getting a screw in .. anyways it got done, now just needed to put the ballast and relay somewhere. The ballast actually fitted behind the plastic cover quite nicely, held firmly in place with three cable ties. I put on the cover and that just left the relay outside, it isn't very noticable as it's black, I just cable tied it to the mass of wiring along there ... Job done, now to just make sure it was adjusted OK. That's when I remembered that I had been unscrewing that screw for ages earlier .. hint: dont do that! I couldn't get it to do anything, and when I looked at the light it was sitting crooked in the mount .. ugh this isn't good. You remember how much I hated putting those little screws in for the headlight .. I had to undo them again. I had unscrewed the adjustment screw so much it had sort of come out of it's little bracket thingy and the light was swinging in the breeze so to speak. I pulled it all apart and screwed the little bugger back into where it was supposed to be ... then spent another hour trying to get all the wires and connectors back into a spot where I could get the light back together, then chased the silly little dress thingy around the yard a few times before getting the stupid screws back in so that I could stand back and look at a headlight that was not only new and improved but also back together again! Really it wasn't that hard ... just a bit fiddly .. and well worth it for the difference it has made to my standard light .. Note that last pic of the HID kit in the light was taken before I had adjusted the light .. and before I noticed that the light was crooked, when I look at the pic I can see just how out it was .. sheesh how did I not notice it before I screwed it all together
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Post by ant on Jun 30, 2013 20:57:21 GMT 10
Great write up Anna. Was looking at these conversions tonigh on ebay so you have answered many questions I had.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 22:16:36 GMT 10
Ta Ant, glad it helped
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Post by bdrgonzo on Jul 1, 2013 7:16:42 GMT 10
Quick question. After install of this kit. Are the replacement bulbs readily available in Oz?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2013 11:15:25 GMT 10
You can get these kits on eBay from aus suppliers but they are a lot more expensive, one of the reasons I went with this one, plus as it was the one Ray and Spinal have I knew it would work. Anyways that means that yes I reckon you can get the replacement bulbs from aus too, at the moment I have two spare standard bulbs so I'll just use those if i'm caught out while on a trip ... Not hard to do, but you could order a spare while ordering the kit if you wanted too I guess.
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Post by SPINAL on Jul 1, 2013 15:54:19 GMT 10
You can get these kits on eBay from aus suppliers but they are a lot more expensive, one of the reasons I went with this one, plus as it was the one Ray and Spinal have I knew it would work. Anyways that means that yes I reckon you can get the replacement bulbs from aus too, at the moment I have two spare standard bulbs so I'll just use those if i'm caught out while on a trip ... Not hard to do, but you could order a spare while ordering the kit if you wanted too I guess. Just a bit of info, Glad you finally got there Anna if you have to do another one it should only take ya 20mins lol, these units are about $150+ To buy here in aust god knows how much the bulbs are here, but not very much on the site you got unit from, can get different colours of brightness, 6000k being ice white from memory. but if you get the blue white i am sure they are illegal as a main beam light in Aust. Glad you had a bit of fun, 35w ballast is best for motorcycle as a mach told me a 55w would more than likely put out too much heat and melt the wires inside the head lamp, just thought you would like to know. cheers, spinal.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2013 16:59:09 GMT 10
Yah ,well done my dear lady . Told you it was fiddly . No credit neded by the way ,give it to Spinal he helped me a lot so i,m passsing it on. Least you put yours in sooner than me .Mine was sitting around for a couple of months. Nice write up and pics . Would you like to put it in the Classroom for others to use as a guide . Let me know if you dont wish to copy and paste all that and i,ll do it when i can .Oh didnt see a pic of the ballast so iff you do can you put that in as well . Use my pic if you havent one mate. i still havent been out on the road much of a night to really see how it works on h/beam ,but going by Spinal it,s great . Once again well done . How many times did you curse and xxxx when those little thingy,s went flying. Cheers Ray
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Post by Azza ( AB ) on Jul 1, 2013 20:26:46 GMT 10
Great work now that you have that one sorted mine will arrive this week ( I ordered one when Ray put the link up the other day) I will sing out when I need to book in your fitting services. Cheers Azza
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2013 21:35:38 GMT 10
Great work now that you have that one sorted mine will arrive this week ( I ordered one when Ray put the link up the other day) I will sing out when I need to book in your fitting services. Cheers Azza Need a hand ,just come up and we,ll throw it on mate . Really isnt to difficult just fiddly as Anna found out . Was prewarned .She did a top job Cheeers Ray
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2013 9:49:04 GMT 10
Thanks for that info spinaltap, I was wondering why a 35w and if I hadn't asked I would have gone with the 55w. I'll pop this in the classroom tonight when I get on the puter. I do have one more question, when I was pulling out the standard bulb the plug was was an extremely tight fit and while struggling with it I split the rubber dust cover that is around the plug, so it went into my little bag of left over bits. I'm thinking now that I might have to try to put it back on not just for dust protection but I wonder if it also insulates the wires from the heat a bit. What did you guys do? Nah I didn't even swear that much Ray, the dog didn't even run away .. and Cray helped me find the stupid little dress thingy once ... That might have been to try to avert a tirade tho
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