Has anyone tried to wire the stock headlight so that the hight and low beams are on together? Be nice to run low on street then be able to flick high beams on and keep the low beam powered as well.
I'm not sure how you can do this with a single bulb, the only set ups I've seen like this are on lights with seperate bulbs for low and high. If you simply took a feed from the highbeam wire to the low the current would backfeed and power the high when the low was on so I guess you'd need a diode of some form to stop this happening. You also have to consider you would be doubling the load through the standard wiring and switch which may cause you a problem. On the standard 35w bulb then this would only be approx 6amps instead of 3 so I'd assume the wiring would be up to it but you can't guarantee this. Maybe easier to upgrade the headlight unit to something brighter? Dave
i got an x2 halogen from motorsportz and wired the low beam to parking light and left high beam on high beam feed. So when you turn key on low beam comes on all the time and when you switch to high beam both high and low come on. It is like a car going through the woods,even single track is not a problem, i am really happy with x2 ,what a joke the factory light is ,your better off taping a mag light to the fender I have done many 5 hour plus night rides with both lights on and my stator seems to keep battery charged good.The parking ,low ,and high beam wire feeds on my 08 te250 are all the same size so i can't see wiring getting overloaded. You are still only running one bulb on each feed. I can only imagine what the hid x2 is like with both on!!
