Well, the saga continues. Pulled the fairing last night, and swapped the blue lead from the fender circuit to the other side of the yellow wire, and nada. Obviously both being on the positive side, there was no short concern, but the spots wouldn't work at all. So I connected it back the other way and the spots again worked indepentantly with the low and high beams. However, the Garage Door Opener won't work.
I thought YOU guys above said this route would NOT effect the Garage Door Opener???
So I did some testing. Not that it should make a difference, but I have the HD HID headlamp. So when checking the leads from the Garage Door Opener, the Yellow goes to the Headlamp socket LB Yellow, the White goes to the Headlamp socket HB White, the Black goes to the headlamp socket Grd Black, and the Orange stripped goes to the loose Orange stripped 12v lead that's right there. When testing this all, the Orange is the constant 12v, and the black is obviously the ground. When the spots are wired correctly, the white and yellow alternate power with the dimmer switch. I guess that cycle is the trick that makes the GDO (Garage Door Opener) work.
After doing the Spot 'mod' with the blue to yellow wire, I checked the headlamp socket, and yellow wire now stays hot all the time under LB and HB. Obviously the blue is feeding constant power two the switches and back to the LB yellow at the socket. The white does cycle. So I figured I'd try swapping the GDO white and yellow leads to the socket. Meaning Yellow to white and white to yellow, hoping that only one of the wires is the trigger. No dice. Seems both wires must alernate power to make this thing work. Damn.
So at that point, I do some more reading on the posts listed above, and saw the remark about using the horn circuit, but I'm not sure how that would work unless it had an alternating flip-flop of the 12v for the white and yellow. Seems strange they would create this thing that has two alternating triggers, instead of just one, which then would work with the horn or something else. I just cannot fathom what other circuit I can use that works in this manner?
At the end, seeing I value the Garage Door Opener more than having the spots with the High Beams, I reluctantly restored everything back to stock. That said, I have to say, in closely reviewing the various previous threads, there is an awful lot of contradictions, in what does and doesn't work. In addition, I found many of the posts obviously got brutalized with the forum change, with deleted comments that could have shed some more light on the matter. One guy says the yellow to blue doesn't effect the GDO, the next guy says it does. Everyone says the left handle bar housing route is not compatible, but the HD-Dude switches under the panel route is another toss up - with no real comment one way or the other. Sure would be nice to get some definitive guidance on this so people don't have to hack everything up with a wink and a prayer, and perhaps delete some of the incomplete and confusing older posts? Did everyone just sacrifice the Garage Door Opener, or what was the trick??