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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Glen1978
On my DDM's there is a red and a black that have male spade connectors on them (at least one of them does).......I have everything you do plus that. I cant see your whole harness to really see where your wires go or whats on the end of them to compare too.
Yeah, that spaded connection plugs into the factory harness. HID harness on left, Factory harness on right. These were pulled apart just a little bit to show exactly which way they go, but it's pretty self explanatory.

OEM Harness Wires: IIRC (white/yellow may be backwards, i'm googling now and will update if i'm wrong, but either way its the same.)
Yellow - High Beam
White - Low Beam
Black - Ground

HID Harness
Red - Power
Black - Negative

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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:24 PM
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Think a 55 watt kit might be to bright?
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:25 PM
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I saw the pic but Im not talking about a PLUG. Im talking about two seperate wires, one black one red, that have a crimp on spade on the end.
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:25 PM
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Personally, I'd stick with the 35w. I've heard of 55w burning up wireharnesses, melting headlight enclosures (although that probably wouldn't happen with ours since it's metal)
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Glen1978
I saw the pic but Im not talking about a PLUG. Im talking about two seperate wires, one black one red, that have a crimp on spade on the end.
Mine had a plug that made it very easy. It's in the same configuration as the H4 bulb in the stock light.

I would plug those in the harness just like my red/black ones are.
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:42 PM
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I just bought 3 sets, a dual light set for my RG, and one for a streetglide and an xr1200. All the harnesses are the same, meaning they have 2 head light leads coming off the headlight plug (like for a car set up). Are your guys harness the same or did you get a single light harness for the DDM kit?
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by bagman1
I just bought 3 sets, a dual light set for my RG, and one for a streetglide and an xr1200. All the harnesses are the same, meaning they have 2 head light leads coming off the headlight plug (like for a car set up). Are your guys harness the same or did you get a single light harness for the DDM kit?
Mine was just a single light. I'll take it all apart again tomorrow and lay it all out for you guys.
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:59 PM
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I think they just sent me 3 wiring harness for a dual light set up. It was Chinese New Year maybe they were sauced when they filled the order.
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 05:59 PM
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I dont know, my **** sounds different. Here is a pic. I dont see anything like what yall have. Its a 35W H4 kit. Sorry but I dont see anything the 3 way factory Harley light will plug into here. If you match stuff up the both the single wires with weatherpack connectors seem to go together and the double oval type weatherpack connector coming off the light seems to go into ballast. That only leaves those two single red and blacks with spade connectors on them. Do they just "stick" in the Harley plug?? Thats sounds pretty mickey mouse to me!! Sorry Im alittle pissed right now because Im not at home to look and trying to describe this off a pic my wife sent me.

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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by bagman1
I think they just sent me 3 wiring harness for a dual light set up. It was Chinese New Year maybe they were sauced when they filled the order.
There will be a full harness like the pic below per light.

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I dont know, my **** sounds different. Here is a pic. I dont see anything like what yall have. Its a 35W H4 kit. Sorry but I dont see anything the 3 way factory Harley light will plug into here. If you match stuff up the both the single wires with weatherpack connectors seem to go together and the double oval type weatherpack connector coming off the light seems to go into ballast. That only leaves those two single red and blacks with spade connectors on them. Do they just "stick" in the Harley plug?? Thats sounds pretty mickey mouse to me!! Sorry Im alittle pissed right now because Im not at home to look and trying to describe this off a pic my wife sent me.

That is correct. For some reason yours doesn't have the plug but the wires are the same. Look at the plug on the Harley harness and you'll see what wires go where. Just remember black is ground for both. Red can go in either depending on low or high beam.
 
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