Accessory Light Wiring

[akapellen17]

So I am working on making my bike a track bike but at this point, I don't have enough money to have a track bike and a street bike so I would like to try to make a track bike that can be converted easily to be street legal. I would like to have a headlight similar to the street tracker headlights but instead it will be a LED bar. I understand the controversy around them as normal headlights and am deciding if that is the way that I want to go. If I do that, I would like to wire in so that the High-Low Beam switch can control the headlight being on an off. (When the switch is on LO, the headlight is off. When the switch is on HI, the headlight is on) I understand that this takes away the option of having a high beam. I don't ride at night at all (maybe once a month) and I don't want to be blinding drivers at night. It is mostly for legality and sight if I do get stuck out at night. I don't want to come off as rude, but I would appreciate it if this didn't turn into a discussion about if this is the right option or not or why I shouldn't do it (unless its a mechanical reason).

The light pulls 18 Watts and just has a positive and negative lead. I drew the lighting diagram and will include one in as well. The white wire goes to the Hi-Lo switch on the handlebar, the black/white seems to go all over the place and I am assuming that it is the power. And the yellow wire goes to the High Beam Indicator. My guess would be that I connect the black/white wire to the positive end of the LED and the negative end to the white wire so that I can use the switch, but the yellow wire also goes to the switch.

Now thinking about it, it seems that the yellow wire is the high beam wire. So if I connect the negative end of the LED bar to the yellow wire and the positive to the Black/White, I think it would work. If anyone could help me, that would be greatly appreciated.

[akapellen17]

I am trying to upload pictures but the forum is telling me that the upload folder is full and i should upload a smaller file. My file size is only 36 KB and max for one photo is 500 KB. Confused. But if anyone can look at the wiring diagram and still help, that would be greatly appreciated.

[Big Rich]

Black / white wire is the ground, white wire is the positive for the low beam, yellow is positive for the high beam.

And you'll have to use a separate source to upload pictures (like Photobucket).

I would just want to point out: running an led light bar still won't make the bike "street legal", and it will blind oncoming cars just as much as your high beam.

[akapellen17]

Yea that is kind of what I figured. Im looking for other options that are like a light bar but won't blind people. My biggest factor is ease of being able to take the headlight on and off and continue to run a numberplate on the front all the time.

[Big Rich]

What about a single 4.25" light from Airtech?

http://www.airtech-streamlining.com/miscpages/lights.htm

Could be mounted off to the side (maybe next to the number plate) with a separate 3 pin wiring connector. Street legal, and very small....

[akapellen17]

That's not a bad option! Another could be like the street tracker style headlight with the number plate, but I don't know where I can get the halogen bulbs like that.

[Big Rich]

What about..... lights from those Honda scooters..... the Ruckus I believe? That's not it...

There is some kind of moped / scooter that uses small projector lights - sseparate lights for the high and low beam. Now I'm curious because I forgot.

[Big Rich]

Sachs Madass :

http://m.ebay.com/itm/290814587536

[akapellen17]

Yes like those! I'd have to figure out how to mount them but I think that's probably the better was to go.

[Slack]

Acerbis cyclops light is street legal and takes 30 seconds to remove, without tools, for track days.