Disabling stock highbeams?

[irish phil]

Don - yup, saw that. I'm not going to pay $35 + shipping for a part I can make myself. I have wire, a draw full of electrical parts and switches, and a solder iron

. I just need the h4 plug harness that costs $4 so I can just remove that if I ever want to revert.

(cough, clearing throat, tightass, cough, cough) I'm in agreement here. I will be doing the same thing.

--Phil

Justin- How many lumens are the 24w lights your replacing?

 

[Justin]

Justin- How many lumens are the 24w lights your replacing?

They are 1500 Lumens each (spot beam). The 24w is for both. They are about 12w each at 13.8 volts (.85 amp each).

 

[Fred W]

I still think the hot setup for head lights is to have HID low beams (only) always on and then use the high beam trigger signal to turn on/off some aux lighting (of your choice). I believe it was warchild that did this first, though I'm not 100% certain of his results or if he still uses that configuration.

The OEM FJR headlight bucket does a credibly good job of broadcasting a decent low beam pattern. Stick HIDs in there and it is that much brighter. It's only when you try to turn off the low beam and only have on the high beam that it falls flat on its face.

I would suspect that any pencil shape high beams that you turn on by themselves, while they may throw lots of light way far down the road, will not illuminate the foreground adequately, which BTW is precisely what it wrong with the OEM headlight buckets too.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Man the cool kids are gonna be pissed....

Oh wait,.... It was done by just them kids years ago..

Nevermind.

I get a kick outa u guys dissing the lamps on these antiquated bikes. Never owned a pre 80's scoot have ya?

 

[900gc]

Man the cool kids are gonna be pissed....
Oh wait,.... It was done by just them kids years ago..

Nevermind.

I get a kick outa u guys dissing the lamps on these antiquated bikes. Never owned a pre 80's scoot have ya?

I had an H1 Mach III Kawsaki and I swear that when you turned on the headlight, all you were doing was lighting a candle in the bucket!

 

[Justin]

I get a kick outa u guys dissing the lamps on these antiquated bikes. Never owned a pre 80's scoot have ya?

Well, I have for one. Doesn't mean I have to like not having light

 

[bramfrank]

Quickest way to disable the high beams is to unplug the bulbs, reverse the connector and plug them back in again.

Note that headlight conversions (including high power bulbs and such) are, strictly speaking not road legal and if an astute cop is looking for a reason to tag you, then there is no defense (no points either, mind you).

I prefer stock headlights with a headlight modulator and HID auxiliary driving lights - I have Hella Micro DE Xenon units on my ride.

 

[Fred W]

Man the cool kids are gonna be pissed....
Oh wait,.... It was done by just them kids years ago..

Nevermind.

I get a kick outa u guys dissing the lamps on these antiquated bikes. Never owned a pre 80's scoot have ya?

The headlight on my '75 Suzuki GT550 wasn't very good. Of course it was just a plain ole' round headlamp with a sealed beam (remember them?) The headlamp that was a true joke was on the 1973 R60/5. That was more because it dimmed badly at idle due to the voltage droop from the alternator.

Yeah compared to those the FJR has great stock headlights.

 

[RadioHowie]

This is some great "thinking out of the box" going on here, so since there are so many experts following this thread, I thought I'd throw out a question...

If I remove the compression rings from my pistons, will I get better gas mileage since I'm reducing friction losses??? I wanna be a cool kid too!

 

[Bustanut joker]

 

[Justin]

Quickest way to disable the high beams is to unplug the bulbs, reverse the connector and plug them back in again.

I didn't think of that :lol: - I guess with it being a simple filament, reversing the polarity of the low beam connections would work fine. Thanks!

This is some great "thinking out of the box" going on here, so since there are so many experts following this thread, I thought I'd throw out a question...
If I remove the compression rings from my pistons, will I get better gas mileage since I'm reducing friction losses??? I wanna be a cool kid too!

That's cool if the ideas discussed here are not for you. No need to take a dump in my thread though. I'm a big boy, making a decision of what's right for MY lighting needs.

 

[RadioHowie]

 

[Justin]

Quickest way to disable the high beams is to unplug the bulbs, reverse the connector and plug them back in again.

I didn't think of that

- I guess with it being a simple filament, reversing the polarity of the low beam connections would work fine. Thanks!

Oh wait, that's not right. The top pin on the H4 bulb is the low beam. Flipping the plug would disable the low beam.

 

[bramfrank]

Sorry if I got it wrong - it sure disables one of the beams . . . .

 

[RossKean]

Pull the bulb and use a pair of side cutters to snip off the hi-beam tab. Cover the stump with a bit of RTV.