Hawkerplt
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Good Evening,
Looking for the headlight lockout relay location. (2007)
Many thanks!!!
Looking for the headlight lockout relay location. (2007)
Many thanks!!!
Relay Location
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johnny80s
Turtle Gears
What is a headlight lock out?
Hawkerplt
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Sorry...maybe the nomenclature is dropout. The relay that inhibits headlights until the engine is running.
Thanks again...
Thanks again...
That is called Headlight relay #1. It switches on and off the headlights and is controlled by a signal from the ECU. Headlight relay #2 is the high beam / low beam relay. Both relays are located up in the nose of the FJR, in front of the instruments. To access it you have to remove all of the front faring and headlamp as a unit.
Do you really need to access it? What are you trying to accomplish?
Do you really need to access it? What are you trying to accomplish?
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Hawkerplt
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Thanks, Fred
Sounds like a big R&R deal...
I'm installing the Clearwater LED lights However, I'm still thinking on how I may want to do this. The kit doesn't come with an on/off switch and I don't want them dropping out with the highbeams on. Their is a "volume"control" but I'm kinda thinking about adding an on/off switch to that.
Thanks again...
Sounds like a big R&R deal...
I'm installing the Clearwater LED lights However, I'm still thinking on how I may want to do this. The kit doesn't come with an on/off switch and I don't want them dropping out with the highbeams on. Their is a "volume"control" but I'm kinda thinking about adding an on/off switch to that.
Thanks again...
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Does the kit come with a relay to power the lights with? Most folks recomend using a relay to power any sort of aux lights.
If so, just about any switched 12V power could be routed to actuate that relay, which would be a pretty low current draw to turn on the relay. Like the unused connector when you disable to the windshield auto-retract makes a great source up in the nose. Run that 12V signal through a switch on your dash somewhere and you'll have auto on off with the key switch and the ability to turn them off when you don't want them.
johnny80s
Turtle Gears
Put in a fuse a block and run them off the block using an off/on switch.
Hawkerplt
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Found the relays under the "A" panel. They are "piggybacked" on top of each other. Using my v/meter, I found the 12v coming in after start and the 12v switching out with high/low selection.
Still not sure which way I want to go for install, but thanks for all the help.
Still not sure which way I want to go for install, but thanks for all the help.
Oh, sorry. I assumed that they were in the same place as on the 1st gen. My bad.
Oh man, I had Skip and Glenn install Clearwater lights for me last Friday. You can get the two taps you need off the second relay: one is the input to the second relay, and the second is the hi-lo for the special "Mary Ellen Mod" that flips them to full intensity when you put the high-beams on.
Let me see if I can find the pic of it.
Let me see if I can find the pic of it.
Well, looks like the pics were on GlennFJR's camera, not mine.
But, you can find it on the left side, when you pull off the upper panel, it was right there in plain site. It has a big harness going almost straight to the left headlight.
I believe the smaller blue wire was the high-beam control, and I don't remember which was the headlight-on wire...one of the large ones...probably green with silver.
Skip tapped into those two (whichever two it was) with PosiTaps(?PosiLocks?) and then ran a ground to the screw on the frame right near there. They didn't cut any wires down, they just coiled them up and tied them up with a zip-tie.
The lights are great!
I'm running with the adjustment set to max bright during the day, and just under halfway for night. If I remember correctly what Glenn said, the dial adjusts from zero to 85% and when the MEM relay is tripped by the high-beams, the lights go to 100% brightness. Very nice.
They do flicker just slightly at idle on my 2008, but if it's bright out it is barely perceivable. I don't mind it at all, and onces the rpms get up by about 100 over idle, the flicker goes away. Doesn't seem to matter what brightness the dial is set, it flickers the same at full bright as at barely lit. Looks like flourescent light flicker that you can only see when you're tired.
The only "hard" part about the install, was the reflector bracket on the left side: it also is an anchor spot for the abs sensor line. Glenn "fabricated" a new one that is a mirror of the right side reflector bracket and put both reflectors up on the top bolts. He then cut the left-side factory bracket so that the abs wire bracket would still be usable on the bottom bolt.
I also met Dale there, he was picking up a set for his '07. I think the silver ones he ended up with (at least at the time I left) were really gonna look nice. He agreed with me that the black ones on my '08 look nearly factory...they don't stand out at all. That's the look I was after: I don't want things to look like I added them. (I realize that a lot of people prefer the opposite: they want the additions to stand out.)
Mike
But, you can find it on the left side, when you pull off the upper panel, it was right there in plain site. It has a big harness going almost straight to the left headlight.
I believe the smaller blue wire was the high-beam control, and I don't remember which was the headlight-on wire...one of the large ones...probably green with silver.
Skip tapped into those two (whichever two it was) with PosiTaps(?PosiLocks?) and then ran a ground to the screw on the frame right near there. They didn't cut any wires down, they just coiled them up and tied them up with a zip-tie.
The lights are great!
I'm running with the adjustment set to max bright during the day, and just under halfway for night. If I remember correctly what Glenn said, the dial adjusts from zero to 85% and when the MEM relay is tripped by the high-beams, the lights go to 100% brightness. Very nice.
They do flicker just slightly at idle on my 2008, but if it's bright out it is barely perceivable. I don't mind it at all, and onces the rpms get up by about 100 over idle, the flicker goes away. Doesn't seem to matter what brightness the dial is set, it flickers the same at full bright as at barely lit. Looks like flourescent light flicker that you can only see when you're tired.
The only "hard" part about the install, was the reflector bracket on the left side: it also is an anchor spot for the abs sensor line. Glenn "fabricated" a new one that is a mirror of the right side reflector bracket and put both reflectors up on the top bolts. He then cut the left-side factory bracket so that the abs wire bracket would still be usable on the bottom bolt.
I also met Dale there, he was picking up a set for his '07. I think the silver ones he ended up with (at least at the time I left) were really gonna look nice. He agreed with me that the black ones on my '08 look nearly factory...they don't stand out at all. That's the look I was after: I don't want things to look like I added them. (I realize that a lot of people prefer the opposite: they want the additions to stand out.)
Mike
MEM
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Hi! I ordered the black for my '07 but they haven't shipped yet. Dale - did you end up with silver? how do they look ?
