i need a new projector.
07-16-2010, 10:28 PM
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i need a new projector.
long story short, my original projector broke during shipping, the replacement turned out to be a halogen at no fault to anyone as we didnt know what it was either. needless to say the thing spits light and i cant see crap. i came inches away from dumping the bike twice into a gravel shoulder and ditch tonite because i couldnt see the turns were decreasing radius and i came in too hot both times on a road ive been on a million times. clearly my fault for over riding my headlight. so im gonna tear it apart again and i wanna stick in an hid projector with ballast and light right from a car. something i can mount into place, connect the power and ground and be on my way with. what should i be looking for when buying a setup? i dont wanna run a kit bulb anymore as theyre crap, as i said i wanna basically take an entire setup from a car and stick it into my housing. i jsut need a shove in the right direction. its almost 130 here and im tired and wired from my night of riding so im gonna save the search button for tomorrow, i just needed to post this while it was still fresh in my mind
07-16-2010, 10:45 PM
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the ballsts and igniters from some of the kits aren't that bad ifyou mate them with a good bulb and projector. My cheap kit with a Land rover 3 (great wide pattern) projector and philips 85122+. The combo is pretty great.
07-17-2010, 04:05 AM
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good to hear thanks. i found that my current projector was open on all the way so we just used some tinfoil to seal it up and to make a reflector housing with. i think id like to try and find something thats already enclosed just to be on the same side of things. are you using a bi xenon projector?
07-17-2010, 04:18 AM
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http://www.theretrofitsource.com/
Have a look here... I have done about half a dozen VTR headlights using the FX-R projectors... The fit in there nicely...
And if you ask nicely, the guy running that will give you a private eBay auction for a single projector, or one with all the stuff you need...
Have a look here... I have done about half a dozen VTR headlights using the FX-R projectors... The fit in there nicely...
And if you ask nicely, the guy running that will give you a private eBay auction for a single projector, or one with all the stuff you need...
07-18-2010, 05:22 AM
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I used a merc bi xenon loads of them about and the car head lights have a bad habit of breaking the mounting points which is great if you want to rip it apart for a retrofit.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Genuine-Merced...item2eae4ab875
This would be perfect 99p start and no reserve.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Genuine-Merced...item2eae4ab875
This would be perfect 99p start and no reserve.
07-18-2010, 07:15 AM
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07-18-2010, 09:02 AM
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07-18-2010, 11:45 AM
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bidding is done. did you end up winning it? it wont show me the winner when i look at it
from the looks of it its £16, which is around 25 bucks canadian. damn thats a high exchange rate. how much are you guys paying for fuel over there? i just had relatives down from germany and they said its like 1.5 euros per liter. and if i remember right its about 1.25 canadian dollars per euro and our gas now is 95 cents a liter.
from the looks of it its £16, which is around 25 bucks canadian. damn thats a high exchange rate. how much are you guys paying for fuel over there? i just had relatives down from germany and they said its like 1.5 euros per liter. and if i remember right its about 1.25 canadian dollars per euro and our gas now is 95 cents a liter.
07-18-2010, 01:55 PM
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95 cents per Liter?! It's not fair... 1.9 CAD / Liter is the lowest I have seen the last month... Usually it's between 1.8-2 Canadian per liter... Sometimes a bit higher, very, ver rarely below... Since I started driving anything regularily at 18 years of age it has not been below 1.5 CAD / Liter... Never...
07-18-2010, 02:14 PM
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wow, yeah well i guess almost a dollar a liter isnt bad. if it makes you feel better when i got my license in 1996 gas was 40 cents a liter. a few years back when i still had my car gas his 130 a liter for regular, high test was 146ish and i was getting about 8 mpg. lol. i guess we cant really complain though if you guys are paying double what we are. but im willing to bet you guys have some cars out there that probably run all day on a drop of gas
07-18-2010, 09:06 PM
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i guess you get used to it too. a friend of the families was working in dubai and said gas is something like 14 cents a liter. but itll cost you 30 000 to rent a condo for the year so it all somehow balances out
07-20-2010, 08:23 AM
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How to wire a relay for a bi-xenon HID projector...
The diode (1n400*) means that the highbeam triggers the relay just the same as the lowbeam, not cutting out when switching between them and restarting the ballast...
If you haven't got a H4 male plug, using spade connectors works just as good, just make sure to place them in the right order...
Oh, and for you Americans who cant turn of the headlight, a kill-switch after the diode on the lowbeam/triggerwire will let you kill the light so you can crank the bike with full power, without the ballast resetting every time you hit the starter... Unless you swap in a Euro switch gear instead...
The diode (1n400*) means that the highbeam triggers the relay just the same as the lowbeam, not cutting out when switching between them and restarting the ballast...
If you haven't got a H4 male plug, using spade connectors works just as good, just make sure to place them in the right order...
Oh, and for you Americans who cant turn of the headlight, a kill-switch after the diode on the lowbeam/triggerwire will let you kill the light so you can crank the bike with full power, without the ballast resetting every time you hit the starter... Unless you swap in a Euro switch gear instead...
07-20-2010, 12:58 PM
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good news, ive been talking to the guy you recommend for me, trs, and he said that the harness he provides is a plug and play for my oem harness, controls the high beam flap through it aswell so hopefully this is going to be painless. now ill just need to wire in my relay to it and ill be all set. 
thanks for the help guys.
thanks for the help guys.
07-20-2010, 02:12 PM
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Oh... I forgot he sells those harnesses as well... Well with that harness you should get the relay already... No need to wire in another... Just stick the one you get in there, possibly snip of the part for the second headlight if you get a car version... Dunno if he has bike versions?
BTW with that setup, never mind a killswitch on the harness... Just leave it be...
BTW with that setup, never mind a killswitch on the harness... Just leave it be...
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07-20-2010, 03:13 PM
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So why don't I need a kill switch with his setup? Add from what I see he sells single light harnesses. ill let you know when it arrives for sure. I can't wait to get the new setup in but I don't look forward to ripping the old one apart.
07-20-2010, 04:20 PM
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Well... It's not that you don't need it... It's just that you can't add it as easily... But yeah, you can add it... The same as on my schematic, figure out which wire is the trigger wire for that relay and splice it in there...
07-22-2010, 12:42 PM
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according to the tracking number my fxr projector with morimoto d2s 5000k bulb slim morimoto ballast and harness should be in tomorrow. which means on monday i tear into the headlight
07-24-2010, 04:32 AM
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It arrived yesterday as Matt fromthe retrofit source said it would. Annd ita real pretty. Almost ashame to have to stick it into a Headlight lol. I think the old stuff is gonna go into my spotlight. Yup that's right hid spotlight :-)
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