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Old 06-07-2009, 08:41 AM   #1
samkjr   samkjr is offline
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Electrical lighting problem

Hey all. I am getting rather pissed with replacing fuses.

I'll lay out the problem. Try and tell me what you think.

When I bought my bike I had the cobra lightbar installed. They wired into the brake / tail light.
When one of the spotlights when out. I replaced them both with 55watt sylvanias.
Ran that for 8 months and hever had a bit of trouble.
When my brake light went out last month, based on forums reccomendation, I went with the 235 instead of stock 1157. Everyone said that would be fine. I just forgot and noone knew that I already had the 55W spots.

I blew six fuses within 10 days of riding.

Went to Advanced and got stock 1157 buld to put in for the 2357.

Here's the kicker, I am now back to the setup that worked for 8 months and have blown two more fuses this week.

I also have a a crack in the lens of a spot light and am thinking of replacing them with Sealed beam. Kinda like Trip's amber beams but want good visibility too.

Any solutions for my problem? opinion/part number and wattage for sealed beam?

By the way, I am not comfortable with trying to rewire the spots differently I, have looked at it and cant see how to do it. I had a hard eough time just doing a direct replacement installing my Stebel horn.


Thanks for reading and helping.



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