My hat is off to them!!!

[Jman]

This HID project is very tedious and tougher than I thought it would be. Everyone that has done this.....my compliments indeed!!!! I am getting frustrated with the wiring. Wish it was easier to work with. Got the pod lights hooked up and working like Eric's FZ1. Having a really hard time find a solid 12v ignition wire for the angel eyes up front somewhere. Did not want to load down the signals or pod lights any more than they are already. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Here are a few pics so far...

 

[Wavex]

dude, there's an octopus in your fairing

Looks very hot btw...

 

[Jman]

More like a :squid: A grueling :squid: to work with.

 

[YamaSpeed]

This HID project is very tedious and tougher than I thought it would be. Everyone that has done this.....my compliments indeed!!!! I am getting frustrated with the wiring. Wish it was easier to work with. Got the pod lights hooked up and working like Eric's FZ1. Having a really hard time find a solid 12v ignition wire for the angel eyes up front somewhere. Did not want to load down the signals or pod lights any more than they are already. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Here are a few pics so far...

Run a new wire from the battery and make sure that it is protected. use an inline fuse and there you have it. On my bike I added a accessory circuit to by using a "add a circuit" thingy in the tail light fuse position. This lets me run my heated grips and my eyes without hacking the harness. the only hard part was getting the wire from the fuse box to the front end.

Hope this helps.

 

[AdamDJ]

Run a new wire from the battery and make sure that it is protected. use an inline fuse and there you have it. On my bike I added a accessory circuit to by using a "add a circuit" thingy in the tail light fuse position. This lets me run my heated grips and my eyes without hacking the harness. the only hard part was getting the wire from the fuse box to the front end.

Hope this helps.

You may want to add a relay to it if your run it right from the battery.. Use the tail light or plate light to signal the relay switch to close so the circuit will only be closed when the bike is actually on.. It can save your battery!

 

[cv_rider]

I initially use the +12V from the blinker power line in the wiring harness (blue with red stripe). I connected that to the HID electronics of both lights. I found that either HID would light if the other was disconnected, but if both were connected, only one would light. I concluded that the blue-with-red-stripe wire couldn't carry enough current to run the electronics for both lights. In experiementing, I found that both HIDs could light if I connected them directly to the battery. But that of course means that the angel eyes would always be on, so you'd need the relay to disconnect power from the battery when the bike is off. That seemed more of a headache than finding another +12 wire in the wiring harness. Now I have the left HID powered from the blue-with-red-stripe, and the right HID powered with the instrument cluster +12 wire, which is red-with-white-stripe.

 

[RJ2112]

I initially use the +12V from the blinker power line in the wiring harness (blue with red stripe). I connected that to the HID electronics of both lights. I found that either HID would light if the other was disconnected, but if both were connected, only one would light. I concluded that the blue-with-red-stripe wire couldn't carry enough current to run the electronics for both lights. In experiementing, I found that both HIDs could light if I connected them directly to the battery. But that of course means that the angel eyes would always be on, so you'd need the relay to disconnect power from the battery when the bike is off. That seemed more of a headache than finding another +12 wire in the wiring harness. Now I have the left HID powered from the blue-with-red-stripe, and the right HID powered with the instrument cluster +12 wire, which is red-with-white-stripe.

When you hooked both Angel eyes to the same source, that puts the LEDs in parallel.... both are very low resistance, but one will be very slightly less. All of the current you tapped off the tail light takes the path of LEAST resistance.... hence, only one Angel Eye.

Your solution of tapping two independant sources works just as well as adding some resistance.... and is cheaper by a couple of pennies.

 

[Jman]

Taming of the :squid: .... a few pics.:Flash:

 

[Jman]

And.... the finished look.

 

[Iethius]

Really cool!

Are the last two pics high and low beam?

 

[SANGER_A2]

You're still better off using a relay that has one wire connected to the switched power and the other two connected directly to the battery. It's the safest way to do it that won't burn out any of your existing connections/wires. Of course, if you need to power angel eyes and HIDs separately, you'd either need two relays or you'd need to split the power coming off the relay and add a switch into it to turn on and off the HIDs.

 

[Jman]

And.... the finished look.

The first picture on the left is the angel eyes only. The second is low beams. Forgot to take a picture of the high beams, but it does not change the intensity it just lifts up the internal light shields all the way.

 

[Jman]

You're still better off using a relay that has one wire connected to the switched power and the other two connected directly to the battery. It's the safest way to do it that won't burn out any of your existing connections/wires. Of course, if you need to power angel eyes and HIDs separately, you'd either need two relays or you'd need to split the power coming off the relay and add a switch into it to turn on and off the HIDs.

Actually, I have the HID's connected directly to the battery. The original headlight plugs connect to the hi/lo, angel eye controller which has the electronics to turn them on. I found a separate 12V wire that comes on when you turn the key to "on" right at the starter relay that sits right on top of the battery. I used this to connect to the controller to turn on the angel eyes.

I have thought about using a switch to turn off the low beam HID's during the day and just use the angel eyes, but I don't know if that is legal or not. It would look cool, but maybe not the best for visibility.

 

[cv_rider]

When you have only the angel eye on, it looks much brighten than mine does. At least in that picture, when only the angel eye is on, it looks quite substantial. Mine is really quite weak. Did you use the HID/angel eye assebly used by Boneman and Gozilla (perhaps made by Newcomdigi in China, can't quite remember)? That's what I used. The angel eye itself looks like it is implemented with a round flourescent tube, or somthing like.

 

[Jman]

When you have only the angel eye on, it looks much brighten than mine does. At least in that picture, when only the angel eye is on, it looks quite substantial. Mine is really quite weak. Did you use the HID/angel eye assebly used by Boneman and Gozilla (perhaps made by Newcomdigi in China, can't quite remember)? That's what I used. The angel eye itself looks like it is implemented with a round flourescent tube, or somthing like.

Yes that is exactly who I got it from - the Hiking1978/Newcomdigi folks. I now have a complete spare set with the regular ballasts (the ones Boneman has). I also have a complete headlight assembly. It has some minor blemishes, but I am a perfectionist, unfortunately. When I tried to clean the inside of the clear lenses to make sure it was spotless, before re-sealing - it left little surface scratches. I switched it with my original lenses because I am so particular.

 

[Jman]

Finally finished. Ran 40ohm 5watt resistors on the front LED's between green and brown to ground. Made the POD lights and the LEDs slow down a little and got the green signals on the dash to stay off until flashers were activated. I used Jam Straight amber LED's for the PODs.

I went ahead and installed a switch for the running light HIDs so that I can just run with the angel eyes and LEDs during the day if wanted. If the brights are selected, it will bypass the running HIDs and come on that way, too.

...glad it is finally over.:Flash:

 

[AdamDJ]

You could also get LED blinker relays for yamahas from Superbrightleds.com for like 9 bucks.. That would be a lot easier..

 

[Jman]

Got a direct daytime picture with the halo lights and running lights on. Just got back from a night ride. The HIDS are awesome May need to tweek the lights up just a tad higher. The cutoff line is remarkable, though.