HID Projector Mod: Need help from you retrofitters

[He Man]

THis question is geared toward anyone who has done an H4 retrofit with hi/lo projector.

On an H4 system, if you turn on the high beam, the low beam filament shuts off. Power is redirected to the high beam and vice versa. WHen you retrofit a hilo projector, you only have 1 filament from the bulb. If you turn on the high beam, the high beam shield moves out of the way, but the low beam power is removed.

Whats the common fix to this?  The only way i think i could get around this problem is a doide.


edit: Turns out i had a wiring harness from an old Bixnon set up that would of worked fine, but i outsmarted myself and chopped it up. Now i need to go find a "3way switch", which i just found out is called a diode.

[stopintime]

When you pull the high beam flasher, the one in front of the electric controls, both filaments light up.
So, the wiring is there.

[He Man]

but when u go to high beam only, low beam shuts off. anyway you wire it without an extra switch will end up with feedback on the low beam, or high beam always on.

i figured out what i needed though. i need 2 diodes on both high and low beam and then feed both wires to the ballast and piggy back off the high beam to power the high beam shield before the diode.

[TAftonomos]

Trouble is, HID bulbs need a few seconds of warm up time.  They also don't like being turned on and shut off frequently.

BiXenon is the way to go, just moves a shield inside the projector and adjusts the beam pattern higher.  When I get back from Vegas I'll send youa picture of the projector I used that fit inside the stock bucket.  Cheap and easy to find on ebay too...

[He Man]

^^ ALready have a bixenon projector, this is a question of wiring. I alreayd have it fitted and all.

I am trying to figure out how to give the ballast a constant steady stream of power. On the H4 bulb, if you go from low to high, isnt there are a mommentary overlap of power anyway? if this is the case, the ballast should always receive power.



This is the wiring harness that I drew up from reading some stuff over at HIDplanet.com

[cafeducati]

Awesome.

Do tell.


I bought an HID system and have not installed it yet on the S4R.

[He Man]

Awesome.

Do tell.


I bought an HID system and have not installed it yet on the S4R.

System of just a bulb and ballast? This includes a projector and requires you to cut a hole in the head light bucket. This projector is really cool, i cant wait to get a new seat cover this week and finish the wiring harness so i can own the road with light!!!

Low Beam


High Beam

[He Man]

this wiring issue is driving me nuts. Ive essential built the same wire harness you buy. but it flickers on high beam. cant figure out why. checked the wire 10 times and it all looks good. low beam is fine but high beam flickers like crazy.

[He Man]

ok done, turns out it was just a bad relay i got from radio shack. 

Now all i need to do is make the lens and close everything up. Will snap some pics for the whole process after im done.

from what it seems though, this mod is totally 100% worth it. I have a 1098 sitting next to my monster and even with the high beam on the halogen projectors for the 1098,  you dont even come CLOSE to the HID projector on my bike.

[greenohawk69]

Looks good.  I need to do this to my '97.