A wire for the high beams

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Someone here has probably already figured this out, so instead of continuing to bend my brain over the wiring diagrams in a Euro manual that might not even match my bike, I'll ask here:

What color wire, located where, is live when you turn on the high beams? It's my understanding (though I haven't yet taken it apart to see) that there's actually a mechanical shade in the headlights, so when you turn on the brights, it moves - it doesn't actually light a second filament in the lights. Does this mean there's no wiring spot that is live whenever the brights are on, and dead when they're off?

I have a Flash2Pass garage door transmitter. Wire it into the high beams, then when you flash the high beams twice, it triggers the transmitter and opens the door. Right now I have the transmitter triggered off my Denali driving lights, and I'm flashing the driving lights to open the door. But it would be more convenient to get it onto the high beams. Heck, if I can find a high beam wire I might just relay the Denalis off it too.

Thanks!
 

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Someone mentions the relay furthest to the left when looking at the right side w/cover off, is the headlight relay.. that's true but I couldn't find a wire there that had anything to do with the high beam. If you take the blue panel off - above the right cover that comes of w/quick turn bolts. You'll see a black boot and a red wire going into that... that one is hot only when the high beam switch is active. That connects to another connector which has a yellow wire w/green? stripe... I did not follow that into the area where it would be accessible w/only the side cover off... hope that helps some.
 

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Mellow has it right, I think. You can tie to the red wire or the yellow at the connection. Look at #75 which is the switch. Yellow goes to # 13 and that is a tie to other yellow wires. You have to tie in after #13. After 13 the yellow goes to a connector and the wire becomes red. This is the power for the dimmer solenoid and it is #85

I think this is correct.
 

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I was a little confused by the description above, here is my description: near the top once the cover is off is a particularly large boot with about 4 module connectors in it. One of them has a pink wire. I was able to trigger my Flash2Pass off of that one.
 

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Hi,
This seems to be a common question, so I traced the wires and took some pictures. Hope they help rather than confuse. My lights were actually installed by the dealer with the bike setup. They are setup to run in sync with the high/low beam. Anyway, there is the large boot about in the middle of everything. Out of that is a yellow wire, that is the high beam. The brown wire is the running light wire. At least that what it looks like to me when comparing to the the Denali installation instructions.
 

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Ulysses said:
Hi,
This seems to be a common question, so I traced the wires and took some pictures. Hope they help rather than confuse. My lights were actually installed by the dealer with the bike setup. They are setup to run in sync with the high/low beam. Anyway, there is the large boot about in the middle of everything. Out of that is a yellow wire, that is the high beam. The brown wire is the running light wire. At least that what it looks like to me when comparing to the the Denali installation instructions.
Hmm having an issue installing my Denalis - they don't come on. It looks like I've probably connected to the wrong brown wire for the running light (there's a dark one and a lighter one). Rather that trust trial and error for this... can anyone confirm which wire to take power from?


ASAP thanks ;D
 

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OK got it! There are actually THREE brown wires in that bundle - a brown/white, dark brown and light brown. I couldn't see from the pics which brown it was... turned out it's the light brown.

I checked the wiring diagram, got nowhere fast... sheesh I hope I don't have to refer to that too often. Anyway, all working now.
 

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elizilla said:
Someone here has probably already figured this out, so instead of continuing to bend my brain over the wiring diagrams in a Euro manual that might not even match my bike, I'll ask here:

What color wire, located where, is live when you turn on the high beams? It's my understanding (though I haven't yet taken it apart to see) that there's actually a mechanical shade in the headlights, so when you turn on the brights, it moves - it doesn't actually light a second filament in the lights. Does this mean there's no wiring spot that is live whenever the brights are on, and dead when they're off?

I have a Flash2Pass garage door transmitter. Wire it into the high beams, then when you flash the high beams twice, it triggers the transmitter and opens the door. Right now I have the transmitter triggered off my Denali driving lights, and I'm flashing the driving lights to open the door. But it would be more convenient to get it onto the high beams. Heck, if I can find a high beam wire I might just relay the Denalis off it too.

Thanks!
I think they've got it covered for ya. In answer to the operation of the high beams, the solenoids that move the shutters receive power while the high beam is selected. This is a yellow or pink wire depending upon what side of the connector you use.
 

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Ok I've read all this and I have located the pink wire for triggering the Flash to Pass but where do I connect the other wire to the transmitter?
 

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ramlin said:
Ok I've read all this and I have located the pink wire for triggering the Flash to Pass but where do I connect the other wire to the transmitter?
Any ground location.
 

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Just installed Denali D2's yesterday and can confirm the wires noted above are effective in using the low/high beam scenario. Thanks for taking the time to post this up. Saved me a lot of trouble.
 

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Ditto on using the yellow for the switch high beam option. Works great for the Denali D2's first wiring diagram option!
 

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Thanks for confirmation of the way I had my unit wired. After talking to F2P it's apparent that my transmitter is faulty. I wil be returning it for a new one. What had me confused was a statement in the instructions which says "Do not connect to chassis ground" well I know enough about motorcycle electronics to know that all motorcycles use a chassis ground system. Anyway, I have used Flash 2 Pass systems on two other bikes for a couple of years with no issue. The shutter system in the S10 is just a little different but in actuality will operate the F2P the same once you run down the connection poits.
Thanks again to everyone's input!
 

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Ulysses said:
Hi,
This seems to be a common question, so I traced the wires and took some pictures. Hope they help rather than confuse. My lights were actually installed by the dealer with the bike setup. They are setup to run in sync with the high/low beam. Anyway, there is the large boot about in the middle of everything. Out of that is a yellow wire, that is the high beam. The brown wire is the running light wire. At least that what it looks like to me when comparing to the the Denali installation instructions.
Thanks! It look longer to look up these pics than it did to wire up the displayed wires. ::026::
 

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::026:: thanks for posting the pics of which wires to tap.-
This was also my first time installing with posi-tap connectors, pretty simple and feel secure.
 

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I love the idea of connecting your high beams to your garage door opener (early in the thread). Did you just open it and solder two leads to the circuit board? How do you know what to connect to?
 

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This thread made my light install much easier. Thanks for sharing the wire details without digging into the schematics.

Had never noticed before the hi beams don't work unless engine is running. Had me scratching my head for a minute thinking I had yanked a wire.

Regards, JC
 

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RAMLIN said:
Ok I've read all this and I have located the pink wire for triggering the Flash to Pass but where do I connect the other wire to the transmitter?
Well, this answer his saved me a lott of work trying to locate this feed towards teh Touratech HID high beam. Had been looking for it over four hours yesterday, finally gave up, posted the question on FB in the XT1200Z group, Paul was so kind to puch me in this direction, and so I'm here, just having connected my extra high beam light. Me happy :p

Grtz, Philip!
 

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Soooooo- installed Denali D2s last night, tapping into the brown wire of the aux light harness so that the D2s are always at max brightness. Buttoned it all up last night - everything worked great. Lights, bike started, all good. Until this morning. Bike wont start. Urgh. Any ideas anyone?
 
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