smokinjoe73

You can also do the eastern beaver wiring hook ups for the headlight. Ups the brightness by like 50%. Well worth it.

1971allchaos

I be interested to read , what our forum electrical engineer opinion........

Tweety

Well, I guess I qualify as one of those...

One, neons doesn't add any visibility or safety... Don't fool yourself into thinking that... They are a fashion item, nothing else, and as such there are many opinions on them and their usage... You will see the headlights or driving lights much clearer and further than you can see any neon accents... That's a fact based on the color, intensity and directionality of the light...

Now that we got that out of the way, adding stuff that increases the draw on the charging system is up to a point actually good for the R/R as it's not required to turn as much energy into heat, prolonging the lifetime...

Adding driving lights doesn't really increase the lenght of the beam much, it does widen it letting you see the edges of the road... The thing is, if you get much more and brighter light with this, ie it fills in the shadows in your bleary light, you have a problem with your headlight...

Then you really, really should look into a new headlight harness like smokingjoe73 said... www.easternbeaver.com It will give you more light than stock + driving lights for less money... The reason is that the wiring to the headlight in the VTR is completely substandard, giving you about a third to half of the light that the bulb is capable of...

Then if you still think the beam is a bit narrow, add the driving lights as an upgrade on that... Or go the whole way and stick a HID projector in there... Then you won't need driving lights... Mine gives me light like this... Enough to almost be blinding at night with large white reflective roadsigns... And the beam is more than twice as wide as the stock light...

Acecool

Neons are from previous owner, and are located under the seat in the rear. They do help you "pop" slightly more if no one is directly behind you.

Eastern beaver has only harnesses for the vfr??

Edit: So all they are doing is using a relay to give power straight from the battery? I could create a wiring harness that does that hmmmmm :-P

skokievtr

+1 what Tweety said, get the Eastern Beavers set-up (I made my own with a ceramic plug which drives a Osram 70/55w H4 + a headlight modulator with my own infra-red daylight on/night off sensor) but I also have twin 55w halogens, a red neon (yes old tech but bright as hell) license plate surround light tied to the brake light circuit, LP Type 3 3-wire TS/RL flush mounts with the OEM from TS/RL in the rear with a 3rd wire added for the RL, the OEM tail/stop light assembly gutted with a 10 LED array, heated vest/battery charger hook-up, volt meter, heated grips, radar detector hard-wired, GPS hook-up & stem mount, alarm with switched cigarette lighter socket, CPU heat-sink & fan on VR/R with fresh air intake snorkel to it & exhaust ports drilled in the right rear of the seat cowl covered by a reverse NACA duct, bicycle computer (which uses no power), etc. And my 03-97 OEM battery I finally replaced a couple of seasons ago out of guilt...

Now that's what I call conspicuity & safety mods...