Also posted to the RG forum.
I just ordered and received a new set of HIDs from Amazon. They were about $72.00 shipped. When ordering make sure to select the H4 Bi xenon bulb, and the 5000k color. If you want the blue look get the 6000k, but I think the 5000k has more usable light.
This kit took a while to install because it has a separate controller as well as the two ballasts. The controller needs a 12v lead and two grounds. I split the fairing looking for a switched 12v line and I found one that comes out of the cable that has the two headlight connectors. The controller has a split connector that slips over a screw or a bolt and I cut that off and crimped on a spade connector that goes into the extra wire from the headlight cable. The two grounds also have a split connector that I spread out a little bit and put them on the lower fairing mount bolts that are visible behind the headlights, and tightened the nuts on top of them. All of this could have been done by just removing the headlights if I had known about the extra wire on the headlight cable. I was a little concerned about the length of the bulbs because they do stick out the back of the light farther than the stock h4. The headlight mounts to a metal bracket that is held into the fairing by some hokey snaps, like something you'd find on a Chinese moped, I popped these out and there are three of these, the bottom two are the ones that you can access from the inside of the fairing to adjust the lights. The top one is also an adjustment that you can only get to by removing the bracket. I turned all three of these about three or four turns out, make sure to turn all the same amount, which allows the bracket to move outward slightly and there by increasing the distance behind the lights. I don't know if that was necessary or not but it was easy to do. Put everything back together and buttoned it up. These lights really rock I hope they last a long time. The pattern they put out is very close to the stock pattern which wasn't bad with the stock H4's but the brightness is incredible. I want to find a dark road
and see how they do, everything in town is too close to really see how they light up the road.
My son ordered a pair but he picked the wrong bulb and got the ones with the xenon low beam and the halogen high beam, the halogen high beam is a joke it's not as bright at the stockers and the low beam has way too much light going up lighting up the trees overhead. He was getting flashed quite a bit too. He's returning them and getting the ones like I have.
The bulbs are really cool it has a single xenon bubble where the arc lives and it has a magnetic mechanism that moves the bubble back and forth exposing a different part of the shield that goes over the bulb giving high and low beams for a single source.

Well that's enough for now I'm going for a ride. If you got ??? let me know.

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I had to break this up to read it as I kept losing my place....

I just ordered and received a new set of HIDs from Amazon. They were about $72.00 shipped.
When ordering make sure to select the H4 Bi xenon bulb, and the 5000k color. If you want the blue look get the 6000k, but I think the 5000k has more usable light.
This kit took a while to install because it has a separate controller as well as the two ballasts.
The controller needs a 12v lead and two grounds. I split the fairing looking for a switched 12v line and I found one that comes out of the cable that has the two headlight connectors.
The controller has a split connector that slips over a screw or a bolt and I cut that off and crimped on a spade connector that goes into the extra wire from the headlight cable.
The two grounds also have a split connector that I spread out a little bit and put them on the lower fairing mount bolts that are visible behind the headlights, and tightened the nuts on top of them.
All of this could have been done by just removing the headlights if I had known about the extra wire on the headlight cable.
I was a little concerned about the length of the bulbs because they do stick out the back of the light farther than the stock h4.
The headlight mounts to a metal bracket that is held into the fairing by some hokey snaps, like something you'd find on a Chinese moped, I popped these out and there are three of these, the bottom two are the ones that you can access from the inside of the fairing to adjust the lights.
The top one is also an adjustment that you can only get to by removing the bracket.
I turned all three of these about three or four turns out, make sure to turn all the same amount, which allows the bracket to move outward slightly and there by increasing the distance behind the lights.
I don't know if that was necessary or not but it was easy to do. Put everything back together and buttoned it up. These lights really rock I hope they last a long time.
The pattern they put out is very close to the stock pattern which wasn't bad with the stock H4's but the brightness is incredible.
I want to find a dark road and see how they do, everything in town is too close to really see how they light up the road.

My son ordered a pair but he picked the wrong bulb and got the ones with the xenon low beam and the halogen high beam, the halogen high beam is a joke it's not as bright at the stockers and the low beam has way too much light going up lighting up the trees overhead.

He was getting flashed quite a bit too. He's returning them and getting the ones like I have.
The bulbs are really cool it has a single xenon bubble where the arc lives and it has a magnetic mechanism that moves the bubble back and forth exposing a different part of the shield that goes over the bulb giving high and low beams for a single source.

Well that's enough for now I'm going for a ride. If you got ??? let me know.

 

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Space.

My eyes can't handle that any longer...

I think I garnered he's happy with his lights.

Awesome!

 

too long to read

 

Here's a phrase you might want to use next time........."long story short"

 

What swayed you to HID and not LED? I'm put off by the ballasts on the HID but then I only have one headlamp. If you took pics you should write it up and post it but run it past the spellin gramr strukshur popo first!

 

I had a HID but it started acting up, strobeing, So I took it out and went LED. Good luck.

 

Sorry for the long post. I thought this would be a welcome subject and I was just trying to be thorough. The reason I went with HID is that there is plenty of room inside the RG fairing for ballasts etc. But the distance at the back of the bulb is tight. The LED systems I've seen have a large heat sink and or a fan for cooling that sticks out a long way and I didn't think they would fit. Why I didn't go with the Daymakers was obviously price. $700 for headlights is f**kin nuts. The HID's are going to be under $50 for a pair, if they're not already, so $72 shipped to my door was pretty good. I also like being able to select a color range.

 

You ain't kidding! I"ll end up with the trucklite. The 7" is 199 from Eastern performance but again, I only have one. I've been screwing around with silverstar bulbs but they're not the long term answer. Let us know how it goes!

Happy Motoring!

 

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