Led lighting , whats needed?

[coolx2]

In the process of making my own version of a Prolite, Going with the headlight delete and got a rigid led. I was told I need to get a rectifier and a small battery to keep the light from surging. Is this true? What are they doing on the real prolites? I'm sure they don't have a battery in them. Thanks In Advance.

 

[catothom]

I have mine connected into stock headlight wire plug. Have a fuse holder on + wire.
Minus on led right into the stock connector and red into fuse, then into connector. Only use one of the two for the sled.

Or you can wire it into the 12v wires the same way

 

[mountain_tamer]

I tried to wire my rigid into the lights and it surged, but I had mine grounded to the frame which may have been my issue.

I rewired it into the 12V accessory port on my sled and it has worked flawlessly since

 

[catothom]

My led light surge a little at idle, but at soon I hit the throttle it goes away
If I connect it to the 12V wires, I don`t going to bother putting a switch on them, and have light all the time

 

[matt159]

LED install m800

Resurrecting an old thread since I couldn't find this info when doing my LED install.

On my 2013 m800 (no battery), the headlight circuit puts out AC power so you would have to rectify it... but it only put out 8.5 volts AC at idle and only came up to 8.9 volts AC with increased RPM.... so if you don't have electric start, it appears that you will have to use the 12v accessory power for your LED project.

My 12v accessory plug was 13.4v DC at idle and 14.2v at rpm... so make sure your LED light will handle more than 12v. --Matt

 

[catothom]

That is not all correct. I have a cheap China led on my 13 Ltd and I have just used cable connectors from led straight into socket from stock headlight. I have no problems at all at idle. It is a 36w 12v led. I use the stock box for turning light on and of. Yes it will dim a little at idle but nothing major

 

[nosajlleb]

Currently wiring up a Rigid dual function LED light on my prolite. The BDX one is $13 on ebay and is a flood light with no forward projection at all beyond 10', didn't work for me. BDX had there light hooked to a auxillary power wire that is in the harness that plugs into the gauge. The white headlight wire was cut along with the blacks and the blue and taped up. I used the white wire for power and didn't notice a surge but haven't ridden it yet.

 

[matt159]

That is not all correct. I have a cheap China led on my 13 Ltd and I have just used cable connectors from led straight into socket from stock headlight. I have no problems at all at idle. It is a 36w 12v led. I use the stock box for turning light on and of. Yes it will dim a little at idle but nothing major

Just sharing my experience & observation. I really wanted it to work from the stock headlight plug so I could turn it on & off with the Hi-Low beam switch... but 8.5v AC power wasn't going to get me very far.

Catothom... I think your sled's electrical system is different than mine since yours came with a battery & electric start... but i don't know for sure.

 

[catothom]

About that I don't know for sure. But I do have removed everything that the electric parts of the e start kit comes with

 

[carlc]

I have a 14 w/o battery or e start, and hooked my led light directly to my bright headlight wire for positive, and the negative to the ground, both from near the headlight socket. Everything works as it should.

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[Pandoras Box]

I have a 14 w/o battery or e start, and hooked my led light directly to my bright headlight wire for positive, and the negative to the ground, both from near the headlight socket. Everything works as it should.

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I did the same, works great and easy to do.

 

[coolx2]

I have a prolite now and today I pulled open the harness to see how it is wired up. They took the white headlight wire and the ground wire and that's it. They cut the high beam wire and covered the end of it.

 

[brandriet]

So correct me if I'm wrong but plug in/splice the positive lead of LED to one of the white wires on old headlight plug and the negative lead of LED to the black wire of the headlight plug, And just leave the blue? Thanks in advance!!

 

[ReaperMotorsports]

At least if you plug it into the high beam side you can turn the led on and off with the high beam button on the bars and the blue led turns on the gauge