I currently have an 8" round on my streetfighter. I bought an Acerbis Cyclops cheap off craigslist.

The round has three wires: green, white w/blue stripe, and blue. This is a wrapped set coming from the bike.

The acerbis has a pair of green/white for low, a pair of green/white for high, and a set of orange/brown for Euro 5w parking light.

Not worried about the parking light but how do I combine the two pairs of green/white on the acerbis while retaining high/low capability?

As an aside, will the stock electrical system on the Hawk handle 110w if I decide to mod the acerbis to run both lights on "high?"

PS, green = negative in this case, right?

 

Alright, so I was reintroduced to the idea of a common ground. Trial and error showed me the blue wire is for the high beam, white w/blue stripe is low, and green is ground. I touched bare wires on the Acerbis and everything worked the way it should with each light connected individually.

I crimped the wires together with butt-connecters, combining the two grounds from the headlight to the single on the bike. Now it won't light up at all. I had to go to work so I couldn't do anymore on it, but any suggestions in advance would be welcomed.

Also bumping for knowledge on both lights on high/110w feasability.

 

Alright, took apart my connections from yesterday to do some bare-wire testing, make sure I didn't do something stupid, and I can't get anything, AND it won't start. Brake/tail, blinkers, horn, all work fine. Killswitch is set to RUN, it's in neutral, sat on it and pulled up the kickstand - nothing. WTF did I do?

this is really frustrating.

 

a fuse is blown somewhere so check those. Also instead of connecting two lights to one circuit, or ground it would be better if you created a second circuit to handle the added load of 2 lights. You can do this by adding a relay circuit off of you battery. Then you connect one light to the new circuit and one to the original wiring harness.

 

mine did the exact same thing when I was working with my headlight wiring. I found I blew the headlight fuse and the bike was completely dead, would not start until the headlight fuse was replaced.

 

Ironically the headlight is connected to the same fuse as your starter, I once blew the fuse on a trip, didn't have an extra fuse so I ended up have to bump start the bike in second, what PITA

 

That was exactly it, I wouldn't have guessed the two were off the same one so I was freaking out wondering what the hell I did this time. For all the crap Honda engineers get about their CCTs and R/Rs, I sure as hell am glad they put a spot for an extra fuse right in the box, just saved me a 20 minute drive to the hardware store.

Thank you!