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Bunged a set of aftermarket H7 & H9 Bulbs in the mutha.
Still not enough luminous grunt. Figured I could do better.
3 days time will be swapping the H9 high for one of these, then travelling north to the state were you are almost fairly compensated in court if you get wiped out by a drunk driver. But not a roo.
Will let ya know.
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were up north are you moving to ??????
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Shane
Hmmm, I'm interested in seeing how you go wit these mate, as it's one of the mods on my list to do!! Make sure you put up some pics!!
Bit hard to photograph luminous grunt.
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bassmaniac69 Wrote:Hmmm, I'm interested in seeing how you go wit these mate, as it's one of the mods on my list to do!! Make sure you put up some pics!!
HIDs are a fantastic addition bloke. heidi and I have them on our bikes. Certainly worth the $Dollars. The only limiting factor with the high beam is that it takes a couple of seconds for it to go from cold to bright when you go from low to high beam.
Max
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Ive written a how to on installing HIDs on a Gen 1 which has been successfully followed by a Gen 2 owner.
Its on the How to Do it Yourself section called Headlight - HID Installation
Good luck with it
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Hi,
My thanks to Steven for his info, just made fitting easy. The only problem I had was the H7 bulb. The bulb fits into a piece them the wire plug goes in that piece. With the HID H7 bulb you cannot use the piece and you need to re bend the wire clip a lot more to hold the HID bulb in. And if you have big ballasts they have to be standing up and back as far as they can as they will hit the head light piece on your front headlight cowl. Other then that as I said easy to fit and work great. I used 35 Watts for low beam and 55 Watts for high beam and never had a problem with any one. 55 Watts for low beam is to bright and you will have cars hitting high beam on you, where as 35 watts seams to not be a problem.
My 2Cents
John
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Hi John,
I agree with you on the low beam being a 35w.
Ive got the 55w and it is too bright with cars flashing even during the day. When you are behind a car during the day and they dip their internal rear vision mirror to stop the glare your lights are too bright.
The idea is to be seen, not to annoy and the 55w annoy - and yes my lights are aimed properly.
The 35 HIDs will throw more that twice the light of the normal globe anyway.
I will update the How To to reflect this and you advice to move the larger ballasts back a bit.
Cheers
Steven
Here's ya pretty picture.
Had to move the ballast (the silver thingymajig) to another spot.
Cut off the stock connector. Keep it and crimp on 2 x male quick connects if ya want to use a stock H9 bulb later.
Cut the 2 x (only good for initial testing spade connectors off the red & black wires not in advert picture. Bung ya quick connectors on.
Then install ya bikehps Crash Protectors & Bob's Ya Uncle.
Then do the most miserable job on the Gen 2--reinstall the fairing.
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Hi Again,
I found out that there are small ballasts that you can buy now, you then can do the fitting like Steven has shown. Not all companies have small ballasts you have to shop around. When I take off my front headlight cowl I'll take a few shots to show where I had to hang my ballasts as they were very big.
Cheers
John
Thanks John
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piperjon Wrote:Hi Again,
I found out that there are small ballasts that you can buy now, you then can do the fitting like Steven has shown. Not all companies have small ballasts you have to shop around. When I take off my front headlight cowl I'll take a few shots to show where I had to hang my ballasts as they were very big.
Cheers
John
Mine are the larger ballasts, they sit on top of the right intake tunnel.
Do smaller ballasts work as well as the larger?
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Hi,
That i cannot tell you, but I'm sure they would work. I suppose to ask the sellers or look up HID Systems on the Internet and go from there.
hope this helps
John
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I think the smaller ballasts are the same as the larger ones just newer and smaller components ie size of mobile phones 3yrs ago versus now.
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