recon lights.....?
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i bought my new recon today, gave the sales men like 20 bucks fr moose trail lights, brought her home and now i wanna install them.... but, theres some questioning, where? theres not much room on the recon... and how, there are no instructions on mounting the switch, or this little thingy peice with pick of a light on it, not listed in instructions,,, worse than legos....
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10-03-2004, 09:08 PM
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You can't use any kind of wire. Try to get the closest to what came with the kit, probably 12 gauge stranded copper. Just wire the black wire of the lights to the frame for ground, and the white wire to a fuse, switch, and battery. put the fuse as close to the battery as you can. A 7.5 or 10 amp fuse is good if the kit didn't come with any, but it is important to use a fuse if you don't want to start a fire.
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10-03-2004, 09:41 PM
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i had custom fog lights heres what i did i mounted 2 on the plastic on the handel bars,2 behind the grill made a custom bracket,2 on the front of the front racks drilled a hole where the bars connect and i had a reverse fog lamp under the trunk and had 1 spot light on the right front fender bout this 3 prong togel switch @ autozone its like 3 bucks a peice held up wello and i throw in an extra batter in the trunk just incase but never needed it! get some pics in every1
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i think im going to drill some holes in the dash to install the switch, shoudl fit nice. i see im definatly goin to need more wire. you would think they thought of this already. o well, its off to the hardware store tomorrow. ... Or can i splice into the existing lights, and have the halogens turn on with the regular ones? ....anyone? anyone? bueller?
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10-04-2004, 01:13 PM
recon lights.....?
You won't have any problems wiring the black wire of the lights directly to the frame, it saves you wire because the frame is grounded, and will do the same thing as attaching the black wire of the lights to the battery. There are a few problems with wiring your new lights with the factory lights. The first problem is that the stock wiring can't handle the current flowing through 4 lights at once, and if you wired it into stock lights you would only have your new lights turned on with the high beams, or the low beams, but not both. Another problem I have run into is that the battery can go dead if you have too many lights running for too long, so it's good to have them on a seperate switch so you can use them when you need them only. I wired my lights to a switch, which I put in the pop-out panel on the dash.
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10-04-2004, 01:29 PM
recon lights.....?
Originally posted by: recon99
You won't have any problems wiring the black wire of the lights directly to the frame, it saves you wire because the frame is grounded, and will do the same thing as attaching the black wire of the lights to the battery. There are a few problems with wiring your new lights with the factory lights. The first problem is that the stock wiring can't handle the current flowing through 4 lights at once, and if you wired it into stock lights you would only have your new lights turned on with the high beams, or the low beams, but not both. Another problem I have run into is that the battery can go dead if you have too many lights running for too long, so it's good to have them on a seperate switch so you can use them when you need them only. I wired my lights to a switch, which I put in the pop-out panel on the dash.
You won't have any problems wiring the black wire of the lights directly to the frame, it saves you wire because the frame is grounded, and will do the same thing as attaching the black wire of the lights to the battery. There are a few problems with wiring your new lights with the factory lights. The first problem is that the stock wiring can't handle the current flowing through 4 lights at once, and if you wired it into stock lights you would only have your new lights turned on with the high beams, or the low beams, but not both. Another problem I have run into is that the battery can go dead if you have too many lights running for too long, so it's good to have them on a seperate switch so you can use them when you need them only. I wired my lights to a switch, which I put in the pop-out panel on the dash.