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Old 12-07-10, 12:56
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Originally Posted by Brewers Whoop View Post
Converted both dip and main on mine to 35W HID, and wired the dip so that it is permanently lit by running a wire straight to the battery and taking a feed off the rear lamp wiring to trigger a relay. I did this to avoid the five seconds or so of gloom while a HID comes up to full brightness, when switching from dip to main or vice versa.

In fact, the dip HID on it's own probably throws out enough light to make the need to also convert the main questionable, but with both dip and main HID lit I can nearly cause an eclipse.

Converting the main was a bit more of a faff than the dip because the bulb holder is different, and requires a bit of resolute dremeling. Not difficult, just fiddly.
how did you get around the fact that the stock low beam only comes on when the bike is running ??

I imagine this is to avoid any current draw on the battery while starting