ir armored lights

[MWMULES]

Yup, that switch is SWEET!

For the guys that hooked into the headlights, did you use any type of relay to protect your 3 lever switch? I though about wiring mine up with a Y connector but them remembered all that juice might ruin the CB in the headlight switch.​

Now you got me thinking Gimp, I have not done very much if any high beam driving since I wired them up like that and electrical is not high in my skill set. I think when it warms up I will go back and put them on their own circuit and switches to make sure that doesn't cause a fail of the 3 lever..

I checked the bulbs in the 2 that came on my bike and the clear is 12v incandescent Hi/low and IR is a Led 12v spot. The clear is wired into the normal headlight wiring, having high and low, the IR is wired straight from a hot + wire through a toggle switch to the high post on the back of the light.

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[gimpyrobb]

Just know that if the circuit breaker goes bad, there is the potential for your lights to go out.

I've been in a truck with no lights at night. I'd be very nervous that a semi couldn't see me.

 

[AZK9]

... I've been in a truck with no lights at night. I'd be very nervous that a semi couldn't see me.

That happened to me during a drive , heading back to the 'Deuce-Base', on... Thanksgiving Night!

ALL... of the lights went out (dash inside the cab and headlights and tail lights too) while on a 3 lane
stretch of divided road on the Garden State Parkway in South Jersey.

I was already nervous, driving at 55 MPH in the slow lane, with moderate traffic passing me doing
65-75 MPH. With all the light around me from the combined headlights, of other vehicles, I was
able to cautiously guide the deuce off to the right onto firm, flat ground, but... sheeeeeesh... .

I even managed... somehow... to avoid hitting a reflective, 1/10 mile marker post by just a few feet!

At first, I did not have a clue what the cause was. I just knew I was without headlights and far from
where I needed to be. My switches were all on and I could not find anything obvious under the dash.
Later on, after I moved the battery wires around in the battery box... everything came back on. Once
I realized the general area of my problem, I managed to wedge a block of 4X4 to stabilize the cables
such that the lights seemed like they would stay on.

Traffic had lessened quite a bit, once I had completed my emergency fix, so I was able to get back onto
the highway easily enough. I decided to get off the parkway at the next exit and was extremely nervous
for the next 12 miles along coal-black, country roads. The lights 'flickered' a few times over rough patches,
but never went out completely.

I also have to say that I was less nervous continuing on, because I had attached 6 magnetic FRED Lights
to the tailgate and front bumber! Bright white setting on the front and red flashing in back. Those things lit
up the deuce like I was in a Christmas parade!!

Turned out to be a weak ground connection coming off the battery, likely because I had recently wire
brushed that area in preparation for priming and painting. Seems as if a buildup of CARC paint was
all that had been keeping the ground connection. Luckily it all turned out to be just a 'Live-N-Learn'
experience and not something much worse.

After all was said and done... it was an easy fix for me and that's a good thing, because automotive,
electrical, trouble-shooting is not one of my great strengths.

Still.... I continue to learn from threads like this one!