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Author Message   Barkbuster Posted on Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 04:22 pm:        Ist picture ever uploaded by me from iphone. led lights mounted from turn signal post.spot on pass side flood on driver side. These things work great and seem bright coming at you but not dazzling if there aimed discreetly. I have them separately switched so I can run them independently or all on.   Etennuly Posted on Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 05:26 pm:        I got your lighting right here! One of these rotating beacons is all you need!   Natexlh1000 Posted on Friday, November 26, 2010 - 09:57 am:        You have to use that beacon when towing?   Etennuly Posted on Friday, November 26, 2010 - 12:12 pm:        Well yes. When using it as a wrecker it must be turned on when on the way to the scene of a wreck and when any vehicles are in tow behind the towing vehicle. Ya gotta love a Uly!   Lt_adderall Posted on Friday, November 26, 2010 - 01:05 pm:        Hey Gang; NOICE Lights! Currently I need to work through my "Punch List" to clear up / tidy up some of the reliability issues I have had with my 2006 XB12X in a recent post.....all of which seem to be electric related in some way. Thanks for all the help and advice; I would sure hate to get all these problems finally fixed...only to "dump" a cool bike. But there are some "sport touring" upgrades I would really love to do to my Ully. Before my Ully started acting up on me I started thinking about ADDING ON H.I.D Auxilliary lights like I see here; nice! It is a project I want to do "Ideally" to ride long range into my sales territory on my 2006 Ully I want to wire in my Gerbing Electric Heated Jacket controller I just got, be able to run my Garmin GPS, be able to run my Passport Radar Detector, and flip on my HID Aux Lights when needed on dark unlit roads. Running the Garmin GPS by itself does not seem to be a problem; and I have not mounted up the Passport Radar Detector yet and ran both at the same time. But I have a few "questions / concerns" about doing this; its seems that our beloved Ully's are "electrically challenged"? I'm doing my homework, digging through the threads and picking up pointers about one stator/rectifier being more powerful on one year than the other....and folks adding Voltometers and "monitoring" the battery / charging level. Having said all of this; and BEFORE I buy all these accessories the Aerostich catalog is teasing me with...... Is adding all of these farkles "TOO MUCH" to ask of a Ully?   Gamdh Posted on Friday, November 26, 2010 - 01:20 pm:        I pretty much have or have had all those on my '06 at some point. - Both headlights on for High - Gerbings heated jacket liner and gloves - GPS - XM Radio - Aux Lights Started with standard 55watt driving Then went to HIDs (Trail Techs) Now Clearwater light LEDs. I have FB's voltage monitor so I can see when I have issues. On a normal commute in the winter... Both headlights, Heated jacket liner and gloves, XM Radio, LED lights works just fine. If I sit at alight, I sometimes see it drop a bit, but I also have my idle set low (900-950). When I see it go to yellow I just touch the throttle to around 1100 and everything is good. Note that the jacket and gloves are rarely on @100% power, so they never really hit their full draw. (Message edited by gamdh on November 26, 2010)   Gamdh Posted on Friday, November 26, 2010 - 01:43 pm:        If all the above were at full 100% power, you would probably have a problem. Common Operating Load Components Watts Amps Headlight 110 9.16 License Plate lamp 5 0.37 Brake/Tail Light 3.36 0.28 Instrument Panel 6.37 0.5 Computer 25 2.08 Fuel Pump 72 6 Cooling Fan 72 6 Electronic Ignition 50 4.18 Common Operating Load 343.73 28.57 Alternator @3000 rpm 481 34 max 494 38 Excess capacity Extra's watts amps min 137.27 5.43 Jacket Liner 77 6.42 max 150.27 9.43 Gloves 27 2.25 LED Lights 12 1 Total 116 9.67 Min Left 9.27 -4.24 Max Left 22.27 -0.24   Etennuly Posted on Friday, November 26, 2010 - 03:05 pm:        I run: GPS - heated jacket - heated gloves - heated grips - 4 aux LED marker lights - phone/MP3 charger - both headlights(except for when I need low beam after dark). It can require(on a really cold long ride) keeping the rpms above 3500 to stay warm. Hitting 5000 for a time will get you really warm. I do not run a voltage indicator light set up. I did remove the "77" connector before it could kill my VR and Stator. I have fixed many shorts in the wiring harness. The '06 Uly has the most powerful charging system of all of the Uly's if I remember correctly.   Rfp52 Posted on Friday, November 26, 2010 - 03:35 pm:        Here are mine... Trail Tech HIDs   Drunk_uncle Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 12:46 pm:        You have headlight load at 110 watts, is that with the both lights on with hi beam mod? I don't have that so at most I am running 55 watts and about 4.5 amps all the time weather I'm runnning hi or lo beam? If that is so I should be fine and you didn't mention how much power the heated hand grips use that are factory installed on 08+ bikes which I have and use regularly now that the temps have dropped.   99savage Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 03:13 pm:        If one wants to power the auxiliary lights on a separate, fused line where is the best place to connect the line to? Is it necessary to go all the way back to the battery cable?   7873jake Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 04:33 pm:        I don't know if it is necessary (someone with more EE knowledge will have to speak up) but if you have to go all the way back to the battery, the Uly is one of the easiest bikes to do so on. I did just to keep the load off of any original loom circuits and to keep me from messing up/around with what was already working without issue. It was almost too easy.   Gamdh Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 09:24 pm:        Drunk_Uncle Yes, the 110 is for running both headlights on when on high beam. This is for an '06, so no heated grips. Also note that the '06 stator puts out more power than the newer ones.   Gamdh Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 09:27 pm:        I have power directly from the battery to this Then I run all my accessories off the fuse block, including the LED lights (and the HIDs before that)   Panhead_dan Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 10:06 pm:        Lt_adderall, Here's the bottom line as I see it; The more crap you add to your Uly, the more you will have to deal with. If you want reliability, achieve that first and only then consider changing anything. If even then. Dan   Blugorilla Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 11:08 pm:        So I found reference to Treadmark's deathray conversion.. found the thread, but the pics are toast... anybody got pics of it for us to see in this thread?   Hangetsu Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 11:50 pm:        Here are a few. Palmer light bar, PIAA 1100X Halogens, 30W HID low beam and a 55W HID in the high.   Xbimmer Posted on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 - 11:18 am:        Hella FF-50 Driving Beams on GME's bar: 55w H7 bulbs, excellent lights. First ran them on a Ulytility bar that shook itself apart, then ran them on the GME bar and the original mounts shook themselves apart. Hence the bulky blocks of 6061 but they're steady as hell now, some day I'll finish detailing them.   Sweetfish89 Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 09:34 am:        Gamdh- Do you still have to run a relay with all of your accessories then into the fuse block or does the fuse block act like a relay also?   Gamdh Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 10:16 am:        There is a relay in the circuit. I'm using an earlier version of this from Eastern Beaver "30A Dual Circuit Fusepanel Relay Kits - PC-8 or AP-2 ". You can find the details here... http://www.easternbeaver.com/Main/Products/Fusebox es/Wiring_Kits/wiring_kits.html   Electraglider_1997 Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 12:13 pm:        http://www.jegs.com/p/Painless-Performance-Product s/Painless-Auxiliary-Fuse-Blocks/750150/10002/-1   Electraglider_1997 Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 12:16 pm:        This look good http://www.cyclegadgets.com/Products/product.asp?I tem=CEN   Gamdh Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 02:40 pm:        EG The one in my pic above is a Centech AP2 Only difference is the AP2 has both switched and non switched power.   Mikef5000 Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 06:11 pm:        I used this fuse block for $9: http://www.jegs.com/i/Painless+Performance+Product s/764/30002/10002/-1 Add a standard relay for less than two bucks http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partn umber=330-073 And a standard relay socket for two bucks http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partn umber=330-075 And you have basically the same setup as the $50 one posted above for under $15.   Rwven Posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 06:25 pm:        Resized pic so y'all can see it. PIAA 510s on Palmer bracket Picture taken on Phantom Canyon Road somewhere between Canon City and Cripple Creek Colorado. (Message edited by rwven on December 02, 2010)   Doncasto Posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 11:29 am:        PIAA 1100X Halogens on home built aluminum angle bracket PIAA 1100X Halogens on home built fork brackets (shown on S2T)   Drunk_uncle Posted on Friday, December 03, 2010 - 12:45 pm:        Well I am about to try and upload pics. I have the denali LED's from Twistedthrottle.com. I also have the Touratech 41 litre, Barkbusters, wheel stripes and so far that's it I think. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31200320&id= 1518528263 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31200320&id= 1518528263 Well so far all I can do is put in links to my facebook album with the bike.   Xb9er Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 03:15 pm:        Thanks everyone for the ideas. Today myself and Toona came up with a new lunicraft aux light set up using the Hella Optilux 2500 Angel Eye Light Kit. 1st we cut a section out of aluminum angle the same width of the original mounting bracket that came with the light. Then we shaped it and drilled holes for the turn signal to mount on it and then bolted the custom bracket onto the bracket that came with the light. Painted them with some black crinkle paint So the lights didnt rotate we cut the heads off 1/4 screws and JB welded them into the turn signal. They use the same hole as the original little peg on the turn signal low beam hight beam   Florida_lime Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 04:47 pm:        Before someone else says it -- "low beam on all the time mod" needed !   Itileman Posted on Saturday, December 04, 2010 - 05:01 pm:        I now have garage envy.