grip heaters only work with hi-beams on!!

[danduvall]

i noticed on my 06 900 sb that the heated grips only work when the hi-beams are on!! WTF!

i have hid headlights. plugged into original h4 socket and im gettin my +&- battery feeds for the hid's from the spare projector headlight plug,

i have a 12v outlet, and a heated shield plug wired into the the aux 12v harnesses next to the coolant/oil resivoir! those are the only elec changes i've made to this sled! problem still remains if i unplug the 12v outlet and the heated shield wiring , havent tried unhooking the hid's! any insight would be great!! thanks guys

 

[danduvall]

Anybody!?!? I know my situation sounds kinda crazy... but I promise,its for real lol

 

[Z-Man]

I think you have found a new thing no one else has had happen. Just going to throw this out there again because in troubleshooting you always start with the simplest things. I know I say this in a lot of posts but did you take a meter and check the ground on your hand warmer wiring? I have seen on cars were a ground goes bad and it grounds back through the headlights. Maybe what is happening is when you turn your headlights on it is completing the circuit for your hand warmers through your headlight.

Not sure if I explained that so it is understandable, anyways check this first. Unplug the wire to your hand warmer switch and test ground with an ohm meter and then test the power wires to a ground on the tunnel with volt meter.

If there is no ground figure out why not, clean ground connection and check for broken wires.

If there is no power and then when you turn the headlights on there is, you have a very strange issue. If possible plug your original headlight in since this is the only thing you changed right? Then see if they work, unless Polaris did some very weird wiring I doubt this would fix it.

 

[BIGGDAWG]

check for broken shorted wires up on the handle bars more than likely you have broken shorting wires up there you will have to inspect each wire including taking the master cylinder off and looking where the wires plug into the switch assy.

 

[danduvall]

ok guys, good advice thankyou! but i found the culprit... its the HID headlights!

hid's install like this- a relay that switches the hid's from hi to lo plugs into ONE of the stock H4bulb harness plugs, leaving one of the original headlight plugs unused! then the hid's require a constant hot and ground wich i aquired by taping into the aux projector headlight plug, so when i first installed the hid's the hi beam indicator on the mfd was always on. then i noticed the grip heater issue!

soooo i removed the under dash panel and left the hid's all wired up, then i plugged one of the original halogen bulbs into the other unused headlight plug and everything works just fine! wtf haha! the hi/lo indicator switches as it should, and the grip heaters work as the should! i guess i need something plugged into the other headlight socket that will mimic a bulb, but what?! a resistor!! essential thats all a bulb is is a resistor correct!?!?!?

 

[danduvall]

i need to find out what size resistor i need to replace the factory 12v 60w H4 bulb. i tried jumping the unused h4 socket over to the other socket and saw no change, apparently the relay that plugs into the one h4 socket doesnt draw enough juice to let the system operate properly?!?!

 

[danduvall]

Ttt for me

 

[BIGGDAWG]

i need to find out what size resistor i need to replace the factory 12v 60w H4 bulb. i tried jumping the unused h4 socket over to the other socket and saw no change, apparently the relay that plugs into the one h4 socket doesnt draw enough juice to let the system operate properly?!?!

Do you have an ohm meter? If so measure the resistance of the bulb. Get a 5 Watt resistor that matches the bulb