Start button / headlight experiment help

[chilidawg]

Have you thought that maybe your time delay don't work that well?

I'm in the A/C business and I have certainly known them not to.

 

[dan filipi]

Well the time delay is before the HID relay controlling the low current close side of the coil which I can hear close after the delay period.
I have tried to get the HID working without the delay inline and connected directly to the battery but no go.

 

[chilidawg]

Okay, so my guess is that you have the time delay in the wrong place.

Perhaps you ought to put it in the main feed to the light.

I'm looking at one now, delay on make. & It, is not designed to work below 19 volts and that's AC volts.

As far as your coil is concerned I didn't even know it had one.

All I do know is, my fix works.

 

[joedrum]

well chillidawg im glad you got it ..ive never used one yet ...

 

[chilidawg]

Have at it Joe!

They are cheap and people see you.

You cannot mistake a light, that bright, coming down the road!!

 

[dan filipi]

DC 12 volt timer delays are out there pretty cheap.

 

[Ansimp]

So far the headlight HID kits that are wired to the battery that I prefer to use are working fine even with the starter interrupt circuits. I did have a failure with the cheap $12 kit that I initially installed on the Rats Nest ( and Dad's 82) but that was wired through the original headlight plug (main current runs through all the old switch gear instead of just signal current)

 

[joedrum]

ive been looking for misplaced oldwing parts all day still at it :Egyptian:

 

[skiri251]

I once had a HID on my oldwing. I had a dedicated power from the battery but hi/lo was through that stock switch and I didn't have any issue with that. Or did I also have dedicated ON/OFF switch? Can't remember.. scary.. (old age)

I removed the HID because it generated HF interference to my stereo.

Nowadays I am thinking about putting LED head bulb I picked up cheap from eBay.
I use it in my CL125A (6V electrics) and it is as bright as or brighter than H4 halogen on 12V.
And it draws only a few amps (even CL125A's tiny AC generator can handle it.)
No ballast, no ignitor, no solenoid for hi/low switching.

 

[C5Performance]

My friend uses an LED headlight on his cafe racer and its great, but I've seen some that really don't have much brightness.

HID lights are crazy bright. How are they for durability? I'm worried in snow, rain, and mud an HID might now hold up?

 

[Ansimp]

Can't vouch for snow but it still seems to work fine after heavy rain and hail!
[video]https://youtu.be/I9Eb3ohfAVk[/video]
GPS speed is not too accurate in heavy cloud etc as you can tell by acceleration and gear changes that I was travelling faster than 50 kph :whistling: :moped:

 

[joedrum]

ive got some time in this type of riding .... :doh: :BigGrin:

 

[chilidawg]

I'm thinking your vision had to be a little better than the cameras was! :whistling:

 

[dan filipi]

If that was a warm rain it would be a blast!

 

[Ansimp]

8 mins and my back pockets were wet as well as the rest of my jeans, half an hour of rain riding down Yosemite only provide wet boots and jeans from the knees down. The hail certainly wasn't warm even though the day was and 2 hours after it was fairly hot again

 

[slabghost]

That was like the rain that caught my wife and I the first time out on my first wing. We stopped under a bridge to dry out the spark plugs and watched a stream go by us 2" deep. My wife didn't complain a bit really. But we both poured the water out of our boots when we got home.

 

[Ansimp]

Too bad there isn't any footage of the dreaded driveway in full river mode with the Rats Nest heading upstream :yes: