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michaelcurrin · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject: relays and auxillary lights

This winter I developed a bad case of "while I'm there."

Not the first time I've had this problem. A friend says I should join a twelve step program for fabricators. The first step is to admit that I have a perfectly fine motorcycle and I should leave it alone. But what fun would that be?

Anyhow this started out as adding relays for the headlights.

Then I decided I might as well add circuits for driving and fog lights while I'm at it.

So first step I added a European headlight switch, then modified the harness so that the lights are still on all the time and the running light switch position will turn on the fog lights and the headlight position will turn on both fog and driving lights.

Next step was to figure out where to mount 4 (high beam, low beam, driving, fog) headlight relays, and might as well add a relay to turn off all the other accessories I've added (intercom speedometer healer, blue neon under the sidecar.)

Step three, might as well add an extra fuse panel.

For the last several years I've been running an AGM battery that is somewhat smaller than the stock battery. I made a plywood spacer to take up the extra room in the battery pan. Also the ABS I brain was removed during the last bout of while I'm there disease.

(I still have both ABS pumps is someone wants to make an offer.)

Step four, so all I had to do was rig a relay box to fit in that space.

Step five, ordered a few relays and odds and ends from Eastern Beaver

This is what I came up with

It fits in behind the battery. Its been tested just need to clean a few things up before its mounted.

Bought just a cheap Pepboys driving light, and have dropped a drawing off at the local machine shop to have a bracket plasma cut. Still haven't figured out where I'm going to put fog lights, but that will be another step

Will post more pictures of that when its done and mounted.
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Mike Currin
20 BMW R1250RS
93 BMW K1100RS / EML Speed 2000
06 Ducati ST3
67 Triumph 650 chopper

Flying Duck · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

You will never be cured of this illness. Learn to live with it.

Nice board.

I like having amber/yellow caliper mounted fog lights. I think the different color and spacing make the bike much more visible during the day. I have my foglights set to run with my low beams and my driving lights set to run with my high beam. I run the foglights at all times during the day and with my low beam at night. It seems to make a huge difference, especially when lane-splitting. Two lights down low make it obvious it's a motorcycle in someone's rear view mirror.

Here's some caliper mounts I made for the RS. I can't do the same on my LT due to the rear half of the fender but plan to move my fog lights down there somehow in the near future.

http://k11og.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2636

#15 in this pic:

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michaelcurrin · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

I like the idea of mounting the fog lights low like that, but with the hub center front end I need to do a little head scratching yet to figure it out.
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Mike Currin
20 BMW R1250RS
93 BMW K1100RS / EML Speed 2000
06 Ducati ST3
67 Triumph 650 chopper

Flying Duck · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject:

I forgot about the hack.
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93 LT (x2)
94 RS
86-97 K75F(K75/100/1100 Frankenbrick)
86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
91 & 92 K75Ss
91 K1
86 custom K100
14 WR250R
IBA #17739 (SS1K, BBG, 50CC)
Buy parts HERE

michaelcurrin · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

Well here it is installed. Kind of hard to see but it works.

(And is is wired so that the driving light turns off when the high beams are turned off.)

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Mike Currin
20 BMW R1250RS
93 BMW K1100RS / EML Speed 2000
06 Ducati ST3
67 Triumph 650 chopper

Shoganai · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:10 am Post subject:

Michael, very, very nice!!

Very Happy

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