Easy install HID headlight

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from the bottom wiring hole- shows the space inside
Easy install HID headlight

Easy install HID headlight



Here is the connector- the wire is fed into the connector, then a hexagon shaped sleeve is placed over, and crimped in 4 places
Easy install HID headlight

Easy install HID headlight


Like most things I could take it apart :lol: by cutting the crimp sleeve off, but then what?
 
It looks as if the cable is nothing more than a shielded 4 wire. It's possible to disassemble the connectors, I've don it before on other types of connectors. On airplanes you often run into special unobtainable connectors, and have no choice to carefully reuse the old one.
 
I would carefully cut off the hexagon sleve, you could use some hobby shop SS tubing for a new sleeve. then the shell and pluc should come apart. You can re-grimp the sleve with a RG6 coax cable crimper
 
I'd take an Xacto blade and slit the outer sheath and have a peek inside. Could be just 4 easily extended wires. You have two that you can't use anyway, right? How about nipping the connecor off one end of one and see if it could be spliced into the other.
 
Ha, that's what I thought too. Didn't know you can't buy cables anywhere. It's more made for harley with a nacelle or a long bullet chopper style light. The lucas shell is pretty small comparitively.
Anyways I ripped one apart. It has 3 wires, then shielded, then metal braid, then outer. Think I'm going to make one if I can get the pins out of the connector
 
I purchased 2 HID kits off of ebay and 2 cycle wiring kits. I bench tested them and they work great. I started installing one on my yamaha. Amazingly it fit inside the shell. I just have to hide the ballast. They ran $50 a bike. For that price I was willing to try it. I looked at the harley one, but couldn't find any deals. It's amazing how bright they are.

Easy install HID headlight
 
yeah, but I have 4 things to mount- horn, regulator, the m-unit controller, and the ballast for the hid- so I figured I'd make some kind of bracket back there to attach everything to in one spot
 
I have LEDs side marker lights on my fastback. just wire them backwards, it works fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkzd0Zn1k60

just skip to 1:00


JimC said:
All LEDs are polarity sensitive. Somewhere I saw some configured for positive ground. I can't say for sure, but I'd bet HIDs, the box anyway, works with negative ground only. If the box is nonconductive it doesn't matter what polarity the ground is. Just wire negative to negative, positive to positive. I'm thinking the box supplies power to the bulb, so that shouldn't present a problem. I think it's a whole lot less confusing to just change the old gal to negative ground, then everything will plug and play.
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Gday Pelican just caught up on this thread,I use HID lights on tractors and harvesters, they are brilliant to say the least!! Give you the best vision next to daylight.Also just wondering if you,ve tried to carefully drill the crimp holes out on the connectors to get them apart? What have you got to loose as they're no good to you anyway being short.
 
I definitely destroyed one lol. I did not drill, but I used a dentist pick to fit under the sleeve and bent it up a little. Then I used my wire cutters to snip it and I pulled it off. The connectors are pretty cool. There's a small plastic part to hold the wires, you set the plastic part in the lower metal connector, and just snap the top part of the connector on.
 
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