Pleas help me with Headlight wiring! :)

Bought a streetfighter mask for my bike (SEE PICTURE) and it only has 2 hookups per light on the back. But i need 3 i think 1 for lowbeams 1 for highbeams and a ground right? Anyone know how the lights in the picture work? Your help is reall appreciated!!!

 

Don't they come with instruction..?
What color are the wires?

 

Ummm. I thought all wires were copper Long JK

13... I think what you have there is one side being high beams and one side being low beams. When you are running lows, then just the one side comes on so you need two wires going to that particular bulb. The opposing side would be you high beam light. When you switch to your high beams, then and only then does that light come on. But the low beam light should remain on. So basically, you need only two wires for each bulb. A hot, and a ground. The diversion of power to the proper headlight wire likely takes place in the switch itself. The power would enter the switch on a single hot wire, then be shared between the high and low beams depending on the position of the switch. Both lights would share a common ground wire. I believe what you have there is correct.

 

Thats exactly what i was wondering how they would work!!! Thank You i think i can wire em up the way your talkin about its still kinda funky running with just a 1 light on 1 side looks stupid when the lowbeams are on. And when i hit the highbeam the lowbeam turns off and i have the other side on by itself. i think i can play around with it and wire it like your talking about so they are both on to see what its like. I guess i would have to find a contant hot wire for the low beam then huh cause when i hit the high it actually turns off?

 

If your low bean goes out when you switch to your highs, then I think there is something wrong with how it is wired. Your high bem should suppliment your low beam, not replace it. Sounds like you may have your ground wire mixed up there somehow. How my wires come out of the switch and what are their colours?

 

1 green 1 blue 1 white!!! when i hit the highbeam switch the 12 volts switches from blue to white or white to blue and the other has nothing then. the green is hooked up to both lights its the ground. so how do i wire it so both stay on?

 

Maybe that streetfighter mask is designed for low beam only?

What year is the VFR? If I'm not mistaken, 02+ have separate bulbs for high beams, which allows all four to stay on. Earlier models only have two bulbs, which means when the high beams activate, the low beams deactivate. This is all assumption. Unless you need highbeams (which admittedly would be nice), I'd just go low beams to both bulbs. Maybe add some auxiliary lighting for high beam duty?

Unless you can hook high and low beam + wires to the bulb +. Since power's only going through one at a time, I imagine it'd be fine, but I DON'T KNOW, so don't fry your bike based on my ignorance...

 

OK 13. I am stumped. Someone may correct me but I have never seen where a low beam goes out when the high beam comes on. That just does not make sense to me. My 6th gen has a four light system and the lower two are the low beams, and the two upper lights are the high beams. When I have my high beams on, all four are lit. Sorry I can't help. The wires you describe, are they the wires attached to the lights, or are they the wires attached to the control switch. If the lights were properly fused, and you were to do any alterations or testing with the wiring, they worst you "should" encounter is blowing the fuse by drawing too much amperage to feed the two lights. Do not put in a stronger fuse to beat this. That is how bikes, and everything else for that matter, gets cooked.

I would have thought that by now, a couple of our more qualified mechanically inclined people would have jumped in here.

 

What year is the bike, Anarchy?