Anyone out there know if the buell projector ion lights have any special power requirements to use. Got something I would like to try in mind. here is a pic of the type of light. http://www.airtech-streamlining.com/images/BS1DH1%7E8.jpg


here they are in a fairing. http://www.airtech-streamlining.com/images/BS1DH1%7EBIKE.jpg

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Very cool Ralph. Reminds me of that skull headlight that they sell for 400 bucks.

Pirate

I have pics stevo. Need to know if those high tech gadgets have any special power requirements. Stevo, look at the fairings on the bottom. Just interested in doing something with those kind of lights similar to the Hellcat http://www.airtech-streamlining.com/buell/universalbuell.htm

I think that pic must be on the other side of the web.... it wont show for me... keeps timing out...

There's a few sites that have those issues here and I read somewhere in connection with one site that I can't get to show ..that it has something to do with the larger players who own/run large sections of the web.... was all too technogeeky for me to really understand it tho...

either way I can't see the pic..... so I can't offer any advice... The addy comes up tho ... is it the airtech green/carbon Buell????

I am talking about those funky looking magnifying lights on the hellcat fo example. http://www.confederate.com/CMcommon/images/hc34big.jpg


or checkout the hellcat on this site. http://www.confederate.com/home.html

Man I like that bike....


Not familiar with the lights .. sorry can't offer an opinion...

Although I have small ones in the Gixxer including a magnified low beam ... sorta like the stock buell 1200r's .. and they work well. .... just use normal spotlight type bulbs..

That Hellcat is really expensive. Have you seen the other one. Here she is. Now that is unique. http://www.confederate.com/CMcommon/images/wrpipebig.jpg

yeah read a test on that in a mag ... it's the Wraith I think....



My sorta bike.... raw, different and using modern technology while still keeping lean

I can't imagine how much the wraith costs. It sure is mad max ish. I like it. They are from New Orleans I think and they got wiped out by Katrina.

Anyone out there know if the buell projector ion lights have any special power requirements to use. Got something I would like to try in mind. here is a pic of the type of light. http://www.airtech-streamlining.com/images/BS1DH1%7E8.jpg


here they are in a fairing. http://www.airtech-streamlining.com/images/BS1DH1%7EBIKE.jpg

I've been toying with that idea myself Ralph. Either that or the XB fairing adapted to the Buell front end I'm installing. The tail piece from Storz might go well with either of them also.

I don't know about the power requirements yet so thanks for this post. I don't see where they would require anything as they run them on the Buells. They might need a ballast like the HID lamps but I don't think so. I'll ask the Buell dealer when I go in there.

I ordered a carbon fiber buell type flyscreen and I think I am gonna integrate some of these bulbs in there. I am tired of my headlight so I will do something unique. I really like the three lights on the hellcat.

3 lights sound sweet Ralph, you'll have that fairing to put things out of sight, have you considered the HID lights ?? You'll have a place to put the ballast for them and they'll really light up the road for you. Just a thought.

H-D generally uses the H4 headlight bulb, the Firebolts and Lightnings use H3 bulbs. There are no special power requirements, other than the fact that you have two bulbs now instead of one, one of which is only used on high beam.


H4 60/55 uses 4.3 amps on low beam, 4.7 amps on high beam
H3 55W uses 4.58 amps, so when you have high beams on (both bulbs) , 9.16 amps are needed

I think if I were going to do it, I would put the headlights on their own 15 amp circuit breaker, and leave all the other lights on the original lighting circuit breaker. Otherwise, you'd probably pop the breaker any time you switched to high beam, depending on the other lights on that same circuit (front or rear running lights, tail light running lamp, anything auxiliary.)

HTH

--Chris

I am not sure how I put that on its own breaker but my guess is the wiring diagram will be helpful in clearing that up.

It's pretty easy. We can work it out if you decide to do the lights.

--Chris

That paint job just makes that fairing!!!! I am suprised how much light those lil bullets put out!!

Ralph, it might be easier to run your other lights on the new circuit to take the load off the headlight circuit, Take a look at your fuse block, on my 06 there is a spare fuse. You might be able to terminate the new power wire for your lights there with a 15a fuse, come off the other side of the fuse and splice into the red/black wire (at least on my bike an 06) from the ignition switch to get power to the fuse.

Now the wire on the other side of the fuse can be spliced into the 2 wires providing power to your front turn signals and the rear lighting. These 2 wires are spliced into the original lighting circuit downstream of the Lighting fuse. Just cut them out and splice them to the new power wire.

If you cut those 2 wires out of the lighting circuit and provide them with power from your new wire on it's own 15a fuse this will take enough load off the original lighting circuit to run all 3 headlights in parallel off your Hi/Lo switch as the original circuit is on a 15a fuse to begin with.

Perhaps Chris could look at this and see if I'm barking up the wrong tree, but it looks like a cleaner solution as it lets you retain the original lighting circuit all the way to your Hi/Lo switch and on to the headlight. You can then run a parallel splice from your Lowbeam circuit and run 2 lights with the 3rd coming on with the Hibeam or parallel splice off the Highbeam and run 1 light with the other 2 coming on when you hit the brights.

Then again maybe I should look at this when I'm awake :roflblack :roflblack :roflblack

I also don't know if the harnesses or the fuseblock configuration have changed from your bike to mine, but I would be really interested as I want to run a Firebolt fairing on my bike with 2 lights.