There's not a bunch of room in the front headlight area, but there is plenty to host a fused barrier strip power source, auxiliary light switch, and relay. I bought a set of ADV Monster Model 60 LED lights and single throw waterproof push button switch. At 28 watts each I didn't want to just tap into the existing high beam and potentially fry my wiring harness. The stock high beam H4 is pretty pathetic and yellow compared to the LEDs and I could have rerouted that lead to power just the aux lights, but I like to keep things stock and ADD on whenever possible. Having had some experience with power strips and relays on the FJR1300 I decided I wanted to put the lights on a relay and use the high beam as a trigger...along with an inline switch to choose between stock or stock + aux. I ran a pair of 16 gauge wires with a fuse from the battery under the plastic to the nose area as well as running light wires through the clutch and front brake cable slots. I mounted the lights on my Probend handguards several months ago and been very impressed with the solid mounting points, high position, and general looks. Here's what it all looks like in the end since I didn't start taking pictures until half way through my project. The other thing I REALLY didn't want to do was to cut or splice into the existing light harness...so I found some nifty harness extenders on Amazon and bought a few. I stripped down the extender and spliced in a wire to the blue wire (that's high beam one), plugged it into the existing harness, test it all, and then ran the tirgger wire into into a Hella relay (Hella's make a slightly more compact unit than Bosch). For those that haven't done relays before I tend to use this one as my baseline: Key is that #30 is positive from the battery as direct as possible with a beefy wire, #86 is to a ground with the same gauge beefy wire, #37 goes to the thing you want to power, and #85 is the trigger wire (need not be a beefy thing that carries load. This is the ONE thing I did that takes the motorcycle from stock. I....gasp....drilled a hole in the side of my light cluster and installed the waterproof toggle switch. I can reach it with my left hand while riding. Alternatively, I considered a handlebar switch, but didn't end up going this way. I looked for a good way to try and screw the relay to the inside area of the nose, but couldn't make anything work and just dremeled off the tab to make it a little more compact. I then tucked it down behind the right side steelwork. Notice the toggle switch with boot cover on...very discrete and looks factory IMO. I suppose there's a small risk of touching grounding something unnecessarily, but feel pretty confident in the way I covered the relay and tucked it all in the nose. Truth is I've had the power block in for months now as I used it as a source for direct lit lights and my GPS receiver. I used the left side space to tuck a bunch of spare light wire in case I ever want to use the lights on something else. The fuse is supplementary to my Garmin 478 power plug and downstream from the distribution block. And all tucked in ready to put the plastic back on I test it all one last time, tug on wires, and call it good. Once again, these LED flood lights are SERIOUS flamethrowers. You can't turn these things on when other traffic is around, but they're great at scaring Bambi.
If you're using a diode surpressed relay, terminal #86 is normally coil +ve. Watch out for back feeds!
Ack. I forgot the longer shot of it all installed and can't get to my image source this evening. Here's a quick and dirty from my iPhone....on the optional hand guards. The ADV Monsters are very lights and the simple screw fastener has enough threads that I've put many miles on them. If I didn't have the hand guards I'd have probably considered possibly through the plastic of the nose area close to where I mounted the switch....with some decent sized washers. Or alternate views are all over the place in this trip report.
Mounted my M60's in the turn signal holes off the head light. They clear the tank on full lock turn. I'm running Zeta hand guards with the signal flasher in the guards, which frees up where the OEM signals were. Man once you turn these on, it's hard to just run with the front light on low.
No, none. I don't know the intensity of a field necessary to throw things off, but imagine either the position of the lights a bit farther from the cluster on the handguards and/or beefier wiring directly to the battery in what is essentially is an add-on electrical system other than the trigger wire may reduce the possibility. I wasn't aware pulsing LEDs created that much noise.
FYI the white/blue wire behind the head light is high beam switch wire. I used this for on/off switch for aux lights.
I've mounted 2 LED spots on my hand guards. These are rated at 16w a piece. Running both gives me 2.67A draw. I soldered my contacts directly to the high beam wires in the headlight. Been running it for a month issue free.
These are about 2-3 times the high beam brightness! Ether my phone hates me or something in the site. I've rotated my pictures and they still are sideways!
Amazon for $80 a pair Search "motorcycle spotlight 16w" They take about 2 weeks to ship as they come from overseas. For the price these are hard to beat. They completely wash out the high beam.
An FJR buddy of mine* has this website with them (or look VERY much like them) at $80 each. He also has a variety of others including a slightly upgraded and cheaper version than the ones in the OP. *Just a buddy...I don't get anything for referrals...I just know he's easy to deal with and decent prices. We do some riding together and like spewing photons out at FJR nominal speeds in the Nevada desert nights.
Ignaciob, So with that switch, they are just on off, correct? Just curious as why not you didn't opt for ADV's other switch, other than the cost I might kick myself for spending $60 on a switch How is the harness extender tied to your M60/switch wiring? I'm trying to figure out which way is going to be best to install the 30/40 lights i got, plus grip heaters, and future GPS power. Thanks, Clete
