06-08-2015, 01:29 PM
Here's where I'm at. I'd like to set up, as an alternate running light, a couple of LED aftermarket running-light units. I think I have the mounting issues cracked.
These are not to be IN ADDITION to the headlight; but IN PLACE of them. I envision a toggle switch - either/or.
I want the Flash-To-Pass trigger to work always.
Why? I live in a cuckoo town where they have stoplights set up SO...SLOW...the cycles take over four minutes. With daytime traffic (it being a prosperous little town) your wait at a light can be over ten minutes.
Air cooled? No fan? Kill the engine.
But...given that these signals don't follow a PATTERN (as traffic-sensor signals don't) I can be called to jump to move. Meaning a quick start.
Meaning, sometimes, SEVERAL starts and stops at these lights. Dead ten minutes and starting and stopping. I like to keep the key on so the turn signals, brake lights...all that rot...stays on.
Hard on the battery.
LED running lights with low current draw...better on the battery.
SO. I want to have a toggle or rocker switch...LED running lights or low-beam. I want the flash-to-pass high-beam working at all times; I use that EXTENSIVELY. More effective when low-beam is out.
Advice on wiring this? I had wanted a headlight relay; but maybe, since I seldom ride after dark (safety in a deer-and-bear area) the relay isn't important. Will one more toggle in the flow from battery to bulb, add that much more impedence?
Advice? Thoughts?
These are not to be IN ADDITION to the headlight; but IN PLACE of them. I envision a toggle switch - either/or.
I want the Flash-To-Pass trigger to work always.
Why? I live in a cuckoo town where they have stoplights set up SO...SLOW...the cycles take over four minutes. With daytime traffic (it being a prosperous little town) your wait at a light can be over ten minutes.
Air cooled? No fan? Kill the engine.
But...given that these signals don't follow a PATTERN (as traffic-sensor signals don't) I can be called to jump to move. Meaning a quick start.
Meaning, sometimes, SEVERAL starts and stops at these lights. Dead ten minutes and starting and stopping. I like to keep the key on so the turn signals, brake lights...all that rot...stays on.
Hard on the battery.
LED running lights with low current draw...better on the battery.
SO. I want to have a toggle or rocker switch...LED running lights or low-beam. I want the flash-to-pass high-beam working at all times; I use that EXTENSIVELY. More effective when low-beam is out.
Advice on wiring this? I had wanted a headlight relay; but maybe, since I seldom ride after dark (safety in a deer-and-bear area) the relay isn't important. Will one more toggle in the flow from battery to bulb, add that much more impedence?
Advice? Thoughts?