The DOT is Halogen, just a clipped beam that works better for street. The HID is the flamethrower of the X2 line. The most expensive, needs 70 watts of regulated DC and is the most expensive. But, it is by far the brightest. The HID is the best for max light off road. the DOT is the best for DS riding, the standard X2 halo is the best bang for the buck for standard trail riding. If you are going to do a good amount of street the DOT is best as the others all have a wide pattern and blind oncoming traffic. These are all very good well designed lights.
I have a 07 610 and ride very little street, mostly I need a good light for getting home late on dirt..... so it looks like HID is what I need. Expect an order in the next few days.
Sounds good. That is a very bright light. Your 610 is all setup to power it so your good to go. Thanks.
Order placed is there any way to get quicker shipping(with extra pay of course)??? I have a big weekend coming up.
Hi I have just order an X2 as well, I am curious is it a simple plug and play or will I need to pull out the soldering iron and crimpers? Thanks for your assistance. Cheers Craig
For my 610 I needed to cut the stock blade connectors and crimp heat shrink the provided quick disconnector. Real simple. I changed things a little and wired both lights on and high beam off alltogether.I also got rid of the 3 watt parking light. The hid is WAY bright. Great light that opens the night up!!!
Hi again Light arrived and fitted, I chose the Halogen , looks great, but: I first set it as just the large light as low beam and both lights as high, low beam is fine, unfortunately when I select high beam both lights come one but the lights fade. What have I done wrong? Thanks for you assistance. Cheers Craig
Perhaps your stator is not capable for that degree of energy draw. I have been trying to figure out the stock stator outputs of the various Huskies for just this reason.
I had assumed that to be the case, I was hoping I had done something wrong that I could fix. I really need to upgrade the light, does anyone have any ideas. I thought a LED tail light may lower the drain, does this sound like an option? Cheers Craig
My other favourite website has the answer, http://www.dirtbikeworld.net/forum/showthread.php?t=64981 Cheers Craig
The HID and Halo are both about a 70-75 watt draw. The HID will run only regulated DC and takes more to light off. the Halogen with work AC or DC and takes nothing to light.
I had this issue: The black wire is not ground at least on my te510. Try switching the wires. Trailtech helped me on this. On mine it is either/or, both lights do not come on. The small light is the "low beam". Others please correct me if I'm wrong.
I noticed that the ground wire on the X2 is the same size as both of the low and high beam hot wires, and all of the wires are smaller than the leads off the bulbs. It could be the ground can't handle the draw from both lights being on at the same time. An easy test would be to turn both lights on for 5 minutes and see if the ground wire gets hot.
On the TE610 the blue wire is ground. If the low is normal, and turning high beam on makes both lamps go dim, you most likely have swapped the ground for a headlamp low beam wire, putting the lamps in series. Check if your black (low beam) and blue (gnd) are swapped. A little theory to explain if interested Wrong connections casue this wiring situation: 12Vhigh beam power -> High lamp -> +12V low beam power -> low lamp -> gnd Correct lamp wiring: 12Vhigh beam power -> High lamp -> Gnd -> low lamp -> +12V low beam power Gnd needs to be between the 2 lamps. :-) On the stock 610, power is only switched to one lamp at a time, so you are just applying power to the middle (wrong connection) or only one end (correct connection) of the stack of lamps.
