Brighter Headlight

Rich Wentz said:

I have the accessory ones which are great however pricy. There are aftermarket ones that are actually better and cheaper. Some you can run with your brights (which in a lot of states are illegal but a ticket is cheaper than the ER) . Look into some LED foglights. Huge improvement.

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I never utilize stock wiring for aux lamps or other devices. it is a recipe for replacing a harness if you should ever have a direct short. yeah the fuse should save your bacon. why risk it.
I route new RED 16g wire from the battery + thru an inline fuse and then thru a relay to whatever device/ lamps I add. of course I run a separate Black 16g return wire to the battery - ground lug at the frame.
I install a LED push on/push off switch at some convenient place. This 3 wire LED switch gets its power from a keyed switch circuit, I usually use the license plate light, intercept it under the seat at harness. 18g is more than sufficient for this switch. This switch can energize the Relay which will energize the aux lamps. It has LED lite to let you know its on/off mode. This circuit is only hot when the bike is keyed ON. key off the switch goes dead, the relay drops out, the Aux lights go out.
and they don't draw on or thru the bikes electrical circuits. they draw off the battery only when the bike is running. poncho


I can draw schematic and scan it , but this system wont let me post .pdf something about file sizes too big. same for pix.

For my auxiliary lights I ran a similar set-up to what Poncho describes. The switch was just in front of the high beam rocker switch.





I found that the stock headlight was ok, the low mounted fog/DRL/always on lights in the fairing helped, but adding the aux lights was what really made this bike better for all through the night rides.