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Dual lows with LED headlights?

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#1 ·
I'm looking to switch out my HID and halos I have on my 09 with green LED parking lights and 6000k LED headlights. My only concern is when I switch to LED's I'll lose my dual low beams I got when I installed my HID's. The OPT7 LED headlights I'm looking at look identical. says both bulbs are H11, H8, and H9.
 
#5 ·
I figured it's be easier to post this here and not make a new thread. I'm trying to fix my HID lights and keep the LED as spares. They both went out unexpectedly the other day. Pulling my bike apart and I found this. Could it be the cause? And way to fix this?


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#6 ·
^^ looks like moisture got into the connector... see how it's got that greenish tint mostly at one end, and the salt like stuff in the same area? That's all corrosion, meaning the metallic surfaces are degraded somewhat.

The cause for that is likely that the connector is not weather sealed in any way.... someone washed the bike, water got in there, and because the gaps are so small the water never evaporated out. Stayed wet, and rusted.

You might get lucky, and be able to scrape enough of the ookiness off of the pins, to allow them to make contact. Tough to do that on the female pins, buried in the connector body.... If you can get good enough metallic contact, that might not matter.

This is the reason I suggest that everyone who owns a motorcycle should also own a tube of dielectric grease. Any quick disconnect in the wiring harness that you unplug, you should flood the inside of that connector with the grease. The grease is non-conductive, so if it's in the way, you can't get a short circuit. the point to point contact of the pins will pass the signals and current as intended... the grease will stop any water or air from getting to that contact, so it cannot corrode any further.
 
#7 ·
Thanks for the input RJ. I cleaned tthe connections up and noticed the fuse was shot as well with corrosion as so I replaced it and cut the wires and added new connections to them. The lights work perfect! I also added in a switch so I can turn my halos on and off.


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#8 · (Edited)
just Installed my OPT7 LED in both sides, 13zx6r Yuge improvement I can see something now with that poor designed headlight beam pattern. The OPT7 look sweet too, Fan inside red color on back of the Bulb.
 

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So another problem.. shoot me lol. Bike started fine yesterday, and fine this morning headed to the gym. Get out from the gym and it's dead (didn't leave anything on). Got a jump and it does again (both times it was reading 11V) so something was draining the battery. I made it home after the second jump. This was 3 hours ago. I just went out and started my bike up like it was nothing. Not sure what's going on. If it was a loose connection it wouldn't have drained the battery right?

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