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I've been doing a lot of lighting work on the rear of the NC, so today, I thought I'd use up the WHITE LED strips I bought and do something with the Front of my NC... Here's what happened....
Some very smart people helped me with this today. Thank you.
I was careful about cutting in to the wires that feed the headlight. In short.... I didn't have to.
The three pronged plug that connects all those headlight wires to the headlight... I observed... had a hinged door on it!
Gently prying the clips back to let the door open (careful make sure you get all of them) revealed the wires crimped inside.
There was room next to each to simply wedge in the my wires next to the honda wires. I pushed them in with the same very tiny flat head screwdriver, and the stripped ends make contact with the wires already there.
wedge in one red for dim, one black for ground, and close the door on the fitting. It snaps in and holds the wires exactly where I needed them.
(the wires in the photo are too big... I went with slightly smaller, and that worked much better.)
I removed the plastic plate under the beek, connected the LED wires to the red/black leads I'd attached in the honda plug, and done.
(the LED strips are connected to the leads with removable crimped connectors.)
I laid down a strip of black tape for each LED strip. The reflective black tape sticks very well to the beek plastic, and then the LED strip will bond better with the smooth black tape surface than it would directly to beek plastic..
Here's the opened Honda plug connection....
and here's the finished LED strips in place.
(NB: they are ON when the low beams are ON...OFF when you go high beams! Not sure how'd you'd wire it for them to be on all the time... probably to one of the turn signal running light wires.)
Do I like it? I'm not sure yet.... Nothing is permanent, so if I find I have "pimped my ride" a little too much, I can take it all off with no penalty.
I'm not happy with the LED strips and how they are attached by adhesive ONLY.
It would be more secure to attach them with very small zip ties, but that requires drilling holes,
and that's NOT REVESABLE.
Some very smart people helped me with this today. Thank you.
I was careful about cutting in to the wires that feed the headlight. In short.... I didn't have to.
The three pronged plug that connects all those headlight wires to the headlight... I observed... had a hinged door on it!
Gently prying the clips back to let the door open (careful make sure you get all of them) revealed the wires crimped inside.
There was room next to each to simply wedge in the my wires next to the honda wires. I pushed them in with the same very tiny flat head screwdriver, and the stripped ends make contact with the wires already there.
wedge in one red for dim, one black for ground, and close the door on the fitting. It snaps in and holds the wires exactly where I needed them.
(the wires in the photo are too big... I went with slightly smaller, and that worked much better.)
I removed the plastic plate under the beek, connected the LED wires to the red/black leads I'd attached in the honda plug, and done.
(the LED strips are connected to the leads with removable crimped connectors.)
I laid down a strip of black tape for each LED strip. The reflective black tape sticks very well to the beek plastic, and then the LED strip will bond better with the smooth black tape surface than it would directly to beek plastic..
Here's the opened Honda plug connection....
and here's the finished LED strips in place.
(NB: they are ON when the low beams are ON...OFF when you go high beams! Not sure how'd you'd wire it for them to be on all the time... probably to one of the turn signal running light wires.)
Do I like it? I'm not sure yet.... Nothing is permanent, so if I find I have "pimped my ride" a little too much, I can take it all off with no penalty.
I'm not happy with the LED strips and how they are attached by adhesive ONLY.
It would be more secure to attach them with very small zip ties, but that requires drilling holes,
and that's NOT REVESABLE.
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