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Rahbert
Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 05:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I notice that some Ulys show both headlights lit. Mine only has one
lit at a time: Left is Hi beam, other
is Lo beam. Is there something wrong with my 08 or is there a secret switch I haven't
found yet?
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Bigkuri
Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 05:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You've missed it....

I don't have link to hand, however:

Open the left hand control
Careful of things popping out (not too bad, just be aware)
Look at the circuit board of the light switch
solder a jumper across the two wires on the board.
Put back together.

Thats it. Neat, and tidy. Takes 10 mins even if you cannot solder well.
There is another way which is changing the wires in the loom, however it sucks.

Cheers!

Ah - found it...

http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/142 838/329497.html?1200110631
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Tipsymcstagger
Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 06:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

There is another way which is changing the wires in the loom, however it sucks.

I'd have to say to each their own on this one. I swapped the pins up front in about five minutes. All you have to do is make sure you open the top of the connector, as pictured here:


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Once you do that, you can look right down into the connector and see the little plastic barb that needs to be displaced. Just use the smallest jewelers screwdriver you have, push the plastic barb out of the way and pull the pin right out.

Swap yellow pin (low beam) with the orange/white pin (Euro light lead), put it all back together and you'll have both lights on when you select the high beam.

Tipsy
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Bigkuri
Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 06:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Ah - I should have said that I'm in the UK, and so in Europe we use the parking light thing (not that I actually do, however there is a working light bulb in there, so I leave it alone).

The loom method uses the parking light circuit to power the dip beam. The handlebar mod crosses the two dip and high beam circuits and so leaves the parking light alone.

Cheers

(Message edited by bigkuri on May 29, 2008)
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Atoms
Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 06:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

And there is a much discussed and perfectly feasible method of getting both lights on by manipulating the rocker switch to stay in the middle. It works, but over time vibrations may set it to one setting or the other.

Perhaps it is from having old bikes with delicate charging systems, but I don't like the idea of changing this permanently.

Perhaps I am just lazy?
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Rahbert
Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 10:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Thanks everyone for the tips.

I'd hate to hit an elk going home because
of not enough light!
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Johnboy777
Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 10:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

...or one could duct tape the flash-to-pass switch down (in the on position) with a narrow double thickness piece of duct tape, if one were, ahem, too lazy to solder the switch connections properly.


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Gwis2
Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 08:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Now THAT was funny right there!!!
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