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philthymike Serious Thumper Offline Wallowing in my own crapulence Posts: 1413 Philadelphia Area Gender:	How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. 12/10/16 at 20:31:12 I just got a new headlight and it's a European design. It has the tiny parking lamp bulb in it. How does it get wired in normally? Seeing as there is no requirement for this lamp in the States should I not even bother with it?
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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #1 - 12/10/16 at 20:54:11 Mike, You can probably wire it into the parking light circuit if you want it. Some of us have disconnected the parking light circuit because of turning the switch the wrong direction when parking and killing the battery with the parking lights. Kenny G
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hotprops Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 180 fort myers fl	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #2 - 12/10/16 at 22:16:50 kenny g,just how do you disconnect it? i can see a easy add on per the op request but there is NO way to disable the stock rear lite at least on a 2009 up .i have tried .would love to know your secret
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Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight.
Reply #3 - 12/10/16 at 23:10:28

Props,

I think Verslagen told me how to do it.

At the ignition switch you can remove the wiring going to the terminal marked " P* ". I think it is marked P*, anyway when you disconnect the wire you disable the parking light feature. From here on out regardless of which way you turn the key from the "ON" position the ignition and lights are off and you can remove the key......

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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #4 - 12/10/16 at 23:11:43 Back side of Ignition Switch
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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1452	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #5 - 12/11/16 at 06:03:55 Worked on a lot of Euro bikes. Many have that little light. For us, the light is worthless, and wastes a few watts of juice. I wouldn't bother to connect it. Doesn't make the headlight any brighter, only wastes juice.
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18101 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #6 - 12/11/16 at 07:07:55 The little light in the headlight was required for Euro counties where you needed to have marker lights on when you parked. The front running lights on the Savage do the same thing. And since your headlight is always on - you will never see that the small light is operational anyhow.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #7 - 12/11/16 at 07:15:41 he little light in the headlight was required for Euro counties where you needed to have marker lights on when you parked. Someone had a brother in law who sold batteries.
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Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight.
Reply #8 - 12/11/16 at 07:17:17

Power wise it wouldn't be a waste since I don't have the OEM license plate lamp anymore - my new brake light has that built-in.
But if it isn't going to be seen anyway then it's redundant.

I see that the new headlight appears to not have room inside to stuff all of the wiring inside the original headlight so I'll focus on that problem instead of worrying about the parking lamp. This should prove an interesting challenge. Tongue

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #9 - 12/11/16 at 10:54:17 Can't you just remove the bulb? Problem solved?
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hotprops Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 180 fort myers fl	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #10 - 12/11/16 at 11:53:59 versa was kind enough to work through the wiring on a older post after i destroyed a new battery .it cant be done.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight. Reply #11 - 12/11/16 at 12:06:29 But if it isn't going to be seen anyway then it's redundant. I'm not a plumber and I wear my pants up, so, nobody's gonna be seeing underwear, but I don't consider them redundant.. They Might BE redundant, IDK..
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Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight.
Reply #12 - 12/11/16 at 17:28:06

I appreciate all the help! thanks! I figure I have a few watts left now that license plate lamp is gone to play around with. Maybe I'll come up with a creative use. After all I hate to waste anything I paid money for. FYI former navy electriciansmate with a former career in electronics. I design and build my own music synthesizers for a hobby. Give me a fews watts and I'll run with it if I can and have the time.

Thanks to my other half's Vstar 650 refusing to start today and an unplanned trip to the auto parts store for a charge I ran out of daylight for the headlight install. Sad

I'll return back in a few days to update this. Weather permitting and assuming some time to kill while there's daylight I may yet tackle this sucker. It looks cool as heck! It is a Highway Hawk
http://www.meancycles.com/store/parts/view.cfm?partID=220524
I managed to order it before the price jumped up $100. Got it for $119!

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Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight.
Reply #13 - 12/13/16 at 06:55:32

After a bit of thinking and checking stuff out I have a plan for the parking lamp. I'll need to add a double throw relay into the mix.

I want the headlight off but parking lamp on when the kickstand is down. Kickstand up and parking light extinguishes and headlight lights.

Motivation here is to not shine my headlight through the windows of the neighbors across the alley while warming my bike up at night. I see them frequently having to close their blinds and curtains at those times and I'd like to be a better neighbor in regards to my night rides.

There's a switch actuated by the kickstand that cuts off the ignition. I plan to use that switch to also energize the coil of a relay with SPDT contacts. Parking lamp to one side of the throw and headlight to the other.

Anybody see a potential problem with doing this?

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Re: How to wire up Euro Parking Lamp in Headlight.
Reply #14 - 12/13/16 at 07:21:05

philthymike wrote on 12/13/16 at 06:55:32:

Anybody see a potential problem with doing this?

The only problem I see - is that you should not be warming up your bike while it is leaned over on the kickstand. It is far better to sit on the bike, bring it up level, pull up the kickstand, start the bike and let it run for about 30 seconds while you use your throttle hand to keep the idle up about 2,000 rpm - then ride off slowly. You can use the choke if necessary - then turn off the choke as the bike warms up.

Below is a link that discusses the cam damage that can occur with the low idle speed and the bike leaned over on the side stand. The low idle speed does not provide good oil flow, and the leaned over bike seems to starve the uphill cam lobe and rocker for oil.

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1447331708

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