wiring spotlights..
 

can you wire a pair of spotlights direct to the high beam switch on the ten,,
thanks in advance..

I would be supprised if it would be reliable. What usually happens is the excess load causes the dip switch to weld together.:011:

I woud use the mail beam to drive a rely with enough rating to carry the current of the spotlights and run a direct fused line from the battery.

I am no Sparky but I did what you are wanting to do to my 1275GT Mini many moons ago and ended up with a burnt out dip switch and no lights. I was then given a diagram wiring up Dip Main beam and the spotlights using relays so I had normal dip or mainbeam, dip and spots.

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Just take a feed from the main beam to run your spots, or from thing like the horn, tail light etc etc anything that run has power fead to it when the ignitions turned on.

If you run it from the high beam you will only be able to use the lights when you have high beam on and for most riders they never really use this, or if they do by the time they switch it on its off again

Colros has it bang on.

You need to use the main beam as a feed to drive a relay - here's a picture, although it is for an auxilary circuit, the wiring is the same.

where it says 'power for accessories', that would be your spot lights,
Where it says '12v feed', that would be a feed from your main beam

http://www.smokingtailpipes.com/Gallery/AuxCircuit.jpg

would you be able to have an option of having spot/driving lights on with DIP or lights on with HIGH beam using a on/off/on toggle switch does anyone know?

To do this you wouldn't be able to use the main beam as a trigger feed for the relay, you'd have to use another suitable switched feed. This could be brakelight, sidelight (live with ignition) or the main feed to the headlight switch from the existing headlamp relay (which is live when the motors running regardless of dip/main switch position).

Yes, its very simple.

you need a on/on switch, this will have three terminals - usually in a line, normally you put power to the middle one and then the switch position determines which of the outer terminals the power goes to.

You're gonna use it in reverse - put the wire from the dip beam to one of the outer terminals, the wire from the main beam to the other outer terminal, and the centre terminal then feeds the relay. The switch position now determines which of the two inputs switches the relay.

You can also do this with a on/off/on switch if you want the additional 'off' position, wiring is the same.

hope that helps.
Pete.

I use a switch, and the main beam - but not in the manner you are asking. The main beam triggers the lights, but these can be switched off by a switch. So I can have main beam, with or without lamps.

You could wire a set of lights up to work from either a switch or main beam in a more automated way that Pete has suggested, it would require multiple relays and some thought. But I can't see a situation why you would want to have them operated by switch....

thanks for the help guys on this and now to get sorted at last.

Just for curiosity's sake, whwt way y' thinking of? I'm just strange- I enjoy thinking about circuit diagrams:) it's the multiple relays I'm puzzled by.