How to wire your Driving, Fog or Daylight Running Lights
 

I noticed a couple of questions on the forum over th eweeks around how to wire your extra lighting up.

Here is a circuit diagram that should help you;

http://www.smokingtailpipes.com/Gallery/LampCircuit.jpg

In short,

Take two cables from your battery, on the +ve one put an inline fuse. Then attach to pin 30 on the relay.

The -ve feed from the battery should be connected to pin 85 on the relay.

Pin 87 should go to your lights, and the return cable (the earth or -ve) should also connect to pin 85

For Fogs/Daylight Runnin Lights, take a feed from the brake light switch on you front brake (make sure you take the one that is showing 12-14v without the lever pulled!) and attach to a switch, then to pin 86 on the relay.

For Driving lights, using a 'scotch' connector take a feed from the main beam wire in the headlight (again check that it is the one that shows 12-14v when on main beam, when not on main beam it should show no volts), feed this through an override switch (so that you can switch them off if needs be) and then connect to Pin 86 on the relay.

Easy!

If you want to creat an auxilary circuit, say for GPS, Heated Grips, 12v power, Hair dryer, TV etc then it's the same wiring as for fog lamps, but instead of connecting to the fog lights, break it into a weatherproof box and stick some connector block in there - to which you can connect your devices (GPS, Grips etc)


Location

There is a small amount of space inside of the two side pannels that fill the gap between the tank and the headlight assy. Remove the two bolts and pull it forward, keep an eye out for the two rubber washers that will fall off the two locating pins!!

Take the bolt that holds the indicator stem out, and the pannel will come apart - thee is just enough space to house a relay and and a small amount of wiring.

Alternativly, if you have some of those fantastic Auxiluary Light Brackts for sale on here, just mount the relay on top of them.



Of course this will work for any bike.

That looks very useful GULGo :icon_thumright: Thanks!

Barry.

Great stuff thats exactley what i have been looking for. thanks for the info

jim

For Driving lights, using a 'scotch' connector take a feed from the main beam wire in the headlight (again check that it is the one that shows 12-14v when on main beam, when not on main beam it should show no volts), feed this through an override switch (so that you can switch them off if needs be) and then connect to Pin 86 on the relay.

Is there any reason why you couldnt use the +ive from the side lights? Great write up i was just thinking how to do it and bought all the kit today ..Thanks

No reason at all, just simplicity really - easier and more straightforward to list one method of connectivity. Personally, I have an auxiluary circuit that provides power to the lighting circuit so it gets a bit complicated ( a relay providing power to another realy), but it does mean I only have one feed coming from the battery, so it looks less complex, if you get what I mean!

For Driving lights (main beam) then I have a scotch clip on the main beam wire, to the overide switch, then to pin 86 as you have sugested. for fog or daylight running lights then you could use;

The GPS feed,
Sidelights,
brake light feed (the advantage is that you can intercept the feed without breaking into the wires),
any other point where you get +12-14v with the ignition on.

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