Help please...Spot light mod...
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From: ND, USA
I bought the HD kit due to not having to cut and chop wires. I try to keep all wiring harnesses and connections as factory as possible. It will be interesting to see the road light up with the new phase 7 headlight on high beam and the phase 7 passing lamps running together tomorrow when my lights are delivered.
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From: Fresno, Ca.
Look at the connection on the harness under the fairing. Find the connection where the aux switch connects. Right above it is the connection for the spot lights. Just switch the connections and the spots will be on all the time. The other side tho is that whatever you have hooked up to the aux switch will then cut out when you hit the brights.
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From: Lapeer , Mich
This disturbs me that something that makes night driving safer is an option that you have to pay extra for. Why can't HD do the right thing and make this kind of stuff factory equipment? Seems they only do what DOT makes them do. Same goes for frame stabilizers and anything else that makes the bike safer to operate.
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From: Fredericksburg Texas
This I don't understand...When its dark and no one is coming towards you and you hit your high beam because you need more light and your other two lights go off? At that point who care how many lights you have on...and who will even see?
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From: Deer Park
Not to slam you at all, please understand that. Them quick tap things are trash though. I wont use them on my trailer, much less my bike. If ya do it, do it right. Yea, you can save 30 bux & soilder the wires in & heat shrink the connections. I know for a fact you will have trouble with them POS quick quick connect or tap things. Been there done that. I see it every day bro.
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From: Deer Park
Originally Posted by Originally Posted by Gunslingertom This disturbs me that something that makes night driving safer is an option that you have to pay extra for. Why can't HD do the right thing and make this kind of stuff factory equipment? Seems they only do what DOT makes them do. Same goes for frame stabilizers and anything else that makes the bike safer to operate.
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from what I have read on the matter it is the law that your driving lights go out with your high beams , check your car , same way , but the wire kit from HD I think is a good buy , got one last week end for the wifes bike to make sure I get it on a safe circut and not the ecm or something , they switch it to the acc circut
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From: Beautiful SW Missouri Ozark Mountain Country
Not to slam you at all, please understand that. Them quick tap things are trash though. I wont use them on my trailer, much less my bike. If ya do it, do it right. Yea, you can save 30 bux & soilder the wires in & heat shrink the connections. I know for a fact you will have trouble with them POS quick quick connect or tap things. Been there done that. I see it every day bro.
I wonder if the harness isn't designed for police bikes?
Last edited by Gunslingertom; Mar 21, 2012 at 09:51 AM.
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From: Canada
I bought the harness from the Moco and installed it at the same time as the front LED turn signals and the HDPDPLUS iPod interface - all of which required the fairing be removed.
My issue with the DIY version was that it uses the ACC switch circuit to turn the lamps on/off...
That's OK if you've got nothing else on that circuit....and don't plan on putting anything else on it.
I already have my Electra-Glo Light Rails and my Motolights on that circuit. I'm also thinking of getting the tourpak LED spoiler lights again (had 'em on my 2000 and my 2006 Ultras and loved having it)...
(If the Limited didn't already come with the luggage rack CENTERED on the tourpak, leaving questionable room to mount the spoiler, I'd have had it on already....with the Ultras - I ordered the luggage rack and spoiler and mounted them both myself)
So it becomes a question of how much you can safely put on the one circuit.
I chose to spend the small amount of money for the Moco harness, and leave the wiring stock, rather than cut into the ACC switch and possibly overload it.
My issue with the DIY version was that it uses the ACC switch circuit to turn the lamps on/off...
That's OK if you've got nothing else on that circuit....and don't plan on putting anything else on it.
I already have my Electra-Glo Light Rails and my Motolights on that circuit. I'm also thinking of getting the tourpak LED spoiler lights again (had 'em on my 2000 and my 2006 Ultras and loved having it)...
(If the Limited didn't already come with the luggage rack CENTERED on the tourpak, leaving questionable room to mount the spoiler, I'd have had it on already....with the Ultras - I ordered the luggage rack and spoiler and mounted them both myself)
So it becomes a question of how much you can safely put on the one circuit.
I chose to spend the small amount of money for the Moco harness, and leave the wiring stock, rather than cut into the ACC switch and possibly overload it.
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