I tried an HID kit on the Tenere but went back to a Philips Xtreme bulb and a set of LED auxiliary lamps from adventure-spec.

If you wire the HID to the dipped beam then there are a couple of issues. The bike switches on the headlight when you crank the engine over. That means that the starter is hammering the battery at the same time as a large inrush current from your HID kit. The HID kit will probably fail to ignite the bulb and the already weak electrical system on the bike will not be happy.

Also, the dipped beam and the full beam are not on at the same time. If you are running on main beam for a while then change back to dipped then there will be a few seconds of darkness as the system gets back up to brightness (or could fail to ignite).

You can run separate wiring for the kit with a switch to get round the issues but that is more potential for points of failure.

Not to mention the fact that you are attaching some electronics that operate at high frequencies and produce thousands of volts at startup with the electronics being of unknown origin, I don't like the idea that they could cause electrical interference to my bikes ECU and instrumentation.

Al


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