KLR650 Aux lights

Aux lights

When installing Aux lights I had to consider the following:

Beam > Narrow, wide, angular, distant.

Price (As always)

Look and feel

My reason for wanting aux lights was not as much for me seeing more clearly although that is an added benefit. My main reason was for other road users to see me more clearly.

I have been keeping an eye out for a set that would feel right to me and finally settled for the ones that I believed would look good on by KLR. It was a set of wide beam driving lights. I purchased a set of LED globe replacements that was a tight fit into the aux light fittings and I was off to do the install.

The install itself is pretty straight forward and the first thing you have to do is decide where you will mount these bad boys and if you will need to make an extra bracket for them to sit on. In my case i mounted them straight on the fairing as can be seen on the picture.

Stuff that you would require are:

some quality gauge for wiring

soldering iron

aux lights

LED replacement globes

standard relay

some cable ties

shrink tubing

connector plugs that fit on the spades of the aux housing wiring

diagram of the wiring that you will be doing

Blue locktite (per usual)

Below is an example of a simple aux lights wiring diagram:

Wiring diagram

Do not connect the Aux lights directly onto your existing headlights as this will draw too much current an either burn out the wiring or blow out a fuse. Instead run a heavy gauge wire for main power directly from the battery with a main line fuse and use the headlights to trigger the relay that will complete the circuit for the heavy gauge wire. This will ensure sufficient power is routed to the aux lights without any possible melt down and also its a plus because you wont be cutting into your bikes factory fitted harness\wiring.

If you are installing high output spot lights then you would want them to only come on when the high beams are on so then you would use the high beam as the relay activator so that they are not always on.

I have incorporated a 3 way toggle switch also just so that I have the option of switching the aux lights off when i want to and also to be used by future mods, but it is not required.

Be sure to disconnect the positive battery terminal while you are tinkering with the wiring or else you will blow a fuse.

Remember to put blue locktite on each bolt as you don't wan't to loose your lights mid flight.

Blue Threadlock is your friend

Pics with aux lights installed