Prowler

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thanks, I will take that on board, this bike probably won't go out in adverse conditions again so hopefully not much more corrosion should appear, although condensation can never be ruled out,

 

I now have the wiring sorted out so some more parts can be fitted back onto the bike, the underside of the clock housing to keep the ECU safe and some wiring, the headlight brackets fitted in position, and now I know the length of wiring needed to reach the lights I could tuck the excess between the mounting frame rails and refit the front cover plate,

now the new lights can be fitted back into the brackets, I have fitted new LED bulbs into these

 

bottom plate and headlight brackets fitted, cover plate fitted, headlights fitted

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ok now a question for any one who understands electrics, (I don't)

when I originally fitted lights like these 20 years+ ago they were fitted with H4 halogen bulbs (still are), back then I wired them up to work together,

this was a problem because as the standard set up has one light for high beam and one for low beam it meant only ever having two bulb filaments working at most, with my set up it meant that four filaments were being used when high beam was used as low beam just always stays on, this blew the lighting fuse within seconds,

to get around this and to keep my twin light set up I snipped a wire from each bulb feed and had one light for low beam and one for high beam,

 

on these new ones I have fitted H4 LED bulbs in a hope that as LED lighting draws much less power I would be able to use both lights as low and high beam, and it works but..........

and now my question -

 

can LED bulbs have 'both' low and high filament equivalents working together ?

 

I ask this because I have them all wired up together just as I did with the earlier ones and they work on low and high, when on low beam setting just the low beam shows, but on high beam setting just the high beam light shows and the low beam goes out where as it should stay on, they can be switched low to high repeatedly and only low or high will light up, the same as when the 'pass' button is used, the low beam goes out and high beam comes on, release button and vice versa,

this isn't really a problem as I'll probably never ride at night anyway, just curious