Question about wiring in after market lights

[600xc4me]

I am wanting to wire in my trail tech lights, but am not sure where to tie in? What is the power wire on the stock light harness? can a guy ground them anywhere or do I need to tie into the ground wire in the stock light harness as well? Which one is the ground wire? I can't start the sled to test for the power wire as it has no draw without lights hooked up right now. So any help would be great.

 

[HUNDO]

Can you just use the stock wiring (will it reach to where you're mounting the lights)? If so, you can push the female spade connectors out of the plastic plug and crimp some male spades onto the Trailtech wires...that way the light are easy to disconnect in the future. The center wire on the plug is the ground (I believe it's brown) and the high and low beams are on either side (yellow wires I think). If you're mounting somewhere else, just make longer pigtails.

You can either wire them both on at the same time or so one is on low beam and one is on high beam (good protection for the electrical system if a single light is enough draw). That way you don't accidentally hit the high beam switch and shut off the lights during a day ride and kill the stator (done it). If you install the resistor/capacitor made for running without light, it doesn't matter how you set em up.

Hope this helps.

 

[600xc4me]

Can you just use the stock wiring (will it reach to where you're mounting the lights)? If so, you can push the female spade connectors out of the plastic plug and crimp some male spades onto the Trailtech wires...that way the light are easy to disconnect in the future. The center wire on the plug is the ground (I believe it's brown) and the high and low beams are on either side (yellow wires I think). If you're mounting somewhere else, just make longer pigtails.

You can either wire them both on at the same time or so one is on low beam and one is on high beam (good protection for the electrical system if a single light is enough draw). That way you don't accidentally hit the high beam switch and shut off the lights during a day ride and kill the stator (done it). If you install the resistor/capacitor made for running without light, it doesn't matter how you set em up.

Hope this helps.

That helps yep! EDIT: I looked again and the green wires are on the bottom, brown on the left, and yellow on the right. Does that mean the green is the ground? Thanks. But no I can't just use the stock wiring, my gauges are up by my bars, and the head light plugs are tried in right by the gauge. I have the lights mounted on the hood, so I'll be running quite a bit of wire to get to the stock harness.

I noticed there are two wires going into each connector in the stock plug. (six total) Whats the reason for this? Can a guy run a resistor and lights both? Does the resistor only take up whats extra? The lights are 35 watts each, so it is already less draw than if I was running the stock lights. But I ran 35 watt HID bulbs all last winter and it worked fine, so as long as these are both on it should be fine. But yes, wouldn't want to hit the switch and not notice....

Lets say I want to run both lights off of the high beam, should I tie them both into one of the stock plug ins? Or should a guy go one light per plug in like it is stock?

 

[hammerj2]

Brown is the ground. Green is low beam and yellow is high beam.

 

[EricW]

You can put external 12v power to your sled through the harnass. Up by the left/PTO side shock tower under the hood you see the hanass with a couple different connections dead ended there.

If I remember right the 3 wire connector is for the Digital Wrench but the 2 wire red/brown is a place you can supply 12v and power up the sled without the motor running.

This one is the Digital Wrench Port

This 2 wire red/wht & brown is the place where you can hook up from a battery I believe

I would wait to see if Mt horse or SuperDave3 or one of the other guru's chimes in just to be sure, its been a while. The sled in the pics is an 08 D8. EW

 

[600xc4me]

Gotter figured out! I had to try a few different ways before I figured out that brown IS the ground. I just started the sled and let it run just long enough to get the gauge to come on, then I would shut it off. Tried it a few times and the lights wouldn't power up, till I went ground to brown, then it worked fine. Looks like I could have come on here for one more check and I could have saved me the trouble. lol

I'm useless when it comes to wiring. So thanks for the help!

 

[harrysmith500]

Have you thought about running HID's???

 

[600xc4me]

Have you thought about running HID's???

I ran HID's in the stock head light last winter after seeing your topic. This year I went to an after market hood, so I had no lights, I added these to replace what I lost. They are HID as well