FLHPI Pursuit Switch AMP Rating
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FLHPI Pursuit Switch AMP Rating
Just wired some HD Foglights to the siren switch on my 2004 FLHPI and now I want to control my passing lights using the Pursuit/Aux Switch instead of the existing toggle switch. I don't want to add wig-wag functions (yet) - just simple on off. My question involves the AMP capacity of the pursuit/aux switch and the current capacity of the wires of the pursuit circuit itself and whether I could directly wire the lights through the pursuit/aux switch, as opposed to using a relay as I did for the Halogen fog lights. Would it be OK to simply splice into the control side of the Deuche connector (nothing else would be connected to this circuit as the bike is civilianized) or will I melt my controls if I do this?
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Not sure of the amp rating but I can tell you that my 2011 FLHP came to me civilianized by the dealer with the passing lamps set up on the pursuit/aux switch as you wish to do...so I'd say you're good to go. I don't even have an existing toggle switch...wish I had it for other accessory options but they must have removed it/them, because I don't have any...just holes where they should be.
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From: Plum & Nearly
make it easy...
all you have to do is remove your headlight bucket. find the wig wag flasher inside, remove it...fashion a 3 way pigtail with blade terminals, plug that back into the plug and use the existing wiring in the pursuit light housings. DONE.
all the wig wag flasher does is alternate power from one light to the other....you are removing the flasher and sending power to both lights at the same time and all is controlled by the pursuit switch on the right control.
If you do it this way it is good for 15 amps and still uses the OE circuit. that same switch also drives the rear police lights and you are not even using that half of it.
all you have to do is remove your headlight bucket. find the wig wag flasher inside, remove it...fashion a 3 way pigtail with blade terminals, plug that back into the plug and use the existing wiring in the pursuit light housings. DONE.
all the wig wag flasher does is alternate power from one light to the other....you are removing the flasher and sending power to both lights at the same time and all is controlled by the pursuit switch on the right control.
If you do it this way it is good for 15 amps and still uses the OE circuit. that same switch also drives the rear police lights and you are not even using that half of it.
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I don't have the wig wag function, so my lights are currently fed by the low beam circuit, so I can't just bypass the flasher. But as long as I can draw the 12vflasher directly from the switch without overloading the switch I am fine with splicing in. Thanks for the help
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The driving lights were "tapped" into the low beam circuit by either you or someone else. That is not the way they are OE. The wig-wag flasher has a 3 blade terminal and plugs into a 3 blade female plug located in the nacelle. From the pursuit switch it sends 12v+ to one blade of the plug and the wig-wag flasher alternates output to the other 2 blades right and left lights.
So if you look for the plug, regardless if the flasher is there or not, you dont have to tap anything on the control side of the harness. Just find the power 12v+ at the plug from the pursuit switch.
So if you look for the plug, regardless if the flasher is there or not, you dont have to tap anything on the control side of the harness. Just find the power 12v+ at the plug from the pursuit switch.
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