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[Glenncarp]

I posted a question last week here (http://www.cvoharley.com/smf/index.php?topic=61091.0) and today I was brave enough to remove the fairing to see what I could find. After the HID headlights were unplugged I switched on the high beams and the garage door began to close. switched to low and then high.....door opened. Soooooo, I plugged the headlights back in and the opener no loner works. I'd like to fix this while the fairing is off and the probelm I am having is that the opener kit  (91558-01A) was installed in the factory and the wires from it come right from the trasmitter into a wiring harness and weave throughout the fairing.

Does anyone have any idea why a ballast would interfear with the signal from the transmitter? How do I work around this? Does anyone see a problem if I wire the transmiiter to the "out" of the ballast before it reaches the HID lights?

Any help would be apprieciated.

Thanks

[Twolanerider]

Don't put it on the downstream side of the ballast.  Only thing on that side of the ballast is the HID bulbs.  It's not standard DC12v on that side of the ballast.

[Glenncarp]

Thanks for the reply and whereas I would agree with you regarding the down stream side of ther ballast, the high beams are not HID, they are regular bulbs and they have two separate wires to them that come from the ballast but are not the same guage as the wires to the HID bulb. When I turn on the highbeams, the light changes form the super white of the HID to the normal yellow tint of a regular bulb, they are just aimed higher.

I think I will photograph the tramsmitter, the wire harness from the tramsmitter, the stock headlinght connectors and the HID set up inside the fairing and take that along with the HD wiring instructions to my trusted audio electronincs shop and see if they can figure it our for me. I can make all the wiring changes, solder the connctions and heat shrink the wires, I just don't want to hook it up wrong and fry something!

I am a little dissapouinted that this thread was viewed 30+ times with only 1 reply,

 thanks twolanerider.

[hdbrad03]

I have HID light on a Roadgilde but hi/low HID. I wired power direct to battery and the kit came with a relay. The only thing my original headlight wiring does is change bulb from high to low. Garage door opener stll functions.

Take a multiple meter and measure voltage at harness into garage door opener the white and yellow wires the volts should toggle between white and yellow ref to ground. Also ther is a led that should light when toggled.



  

   Brad

[Twolanerider]

I am a little dissapouinted that this thread was viewed 30+ times with only 1 reply,

No reason for disappointment.  That's still 30 guys who took the time to look at your question. 

You've got an odd behavior coming from the bike that is likely coming from some subtle mistake in the installation or a glitchy error in the parts.  That's not the kind of thing that everyone is going to have an answer for.  Quite frankly the only real answer is ever going to be "without seeing the bike in front of us we can't know for sure and can't check it out so the only way you're going to fix it is check everything over again and hope you find it."

[HD4CPA]

I installed ballasts on both low and high beams initially but lost the use of my garage door opener.   I removed the high beam hid and it worked again.  Must be electrical interference I assume.   I located the ballast on the opposite side of the garage door transmitter.  Hope this helps.   Good luck.   Mine was completely plug n play.

[Glenncarp]

Thanks for the help. My local audio shop sent one of the techs to my house in in 35 minutes he had the problem solved. He added a power relay and hooked to to the high beam leads after the ballast. He used a simple plug so it can be disconnected as easliy as the headlight sockets when I remove the fairing next time.

Speakikng of that.....how to heck does anyone replace the fairing by themselves?? With the tech and myself, we struggeled for 20 minutes before we got the fairing on the hooks! I am still trying to align the inner and outer fairing before tightening the screws to 12 in pounds! What a hassle

[Twolanerider]

Speakikng of that.....how to heck does anyone replace the fairing by themselves??

That's a "feel" thing.  After you've done it a time or two it's no big deal and you'll be popping it on and off in seconds.  But you do have to learn the feel of how hard to push and getting everything in place. 

Congrats on achieving a fix for the GDO also.  So what's the next project?