Tail and Head Light Modulator
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:22 pm
I promised myself I would buy a headlight and taillight modulator for the new bike (Rear end me once, shame on you, rear end me twice, shame on me.) Got it from Comagination, they had a package deal if you bought both. I feel safer already 
Hopefully I am safer. It's hard to judge what people are thinking with the flashing tail light, but I can definitely see the reaction to the flashing high beam. I can see people looking and checking their mirrors when I go down the street or come up behind them. I think I get more people moving out of my way when I come up behind them. Maybe they don't like a flashing light in their mirrors, or they think I'm a cop or something (I guess having the ED 80 colors doesn't hurt that illusion). Mission accomplished.
Tell you what, if you do get the Comagination headlight kit, be prepared to do some wire splicing. The Rock, being that it has two separate lights, doesn't have the usual headlight connector. So, what would normally be a plug and play operation turns into a wire tracing and splicing job.
I thought about the best place to splice the unit in (it's not very large, about 1" diameter by 1" high), decided that I didn't want a wire mess right behind my headlight, so decided to pull the tank and splice under there.
The pain was tracing the wires so that I could cut them and splice in. The positive was relatively easy because it was the only white wire running through that wire lume, but there were like five grounds, and of course since they are all connected... (Ah... to ground) trying to probe with a multimeter to trace the wire didn't work. So, had to manually trace the wire, which pretty much meant slitting the casing off the lume almost along it's entire length from the headlight to under the tank.. So, what should have been a 15 minute job turned into a couple hours by the time I had the wires traced, the unit spliced in, and the wire lume taped back together.
Hopefully I am safer. It's hard to judge what people are thinking with the flashing tail light, but I can definitely see the reaction to the flashing high beam. I can see people looking and checking their mirrors when I go down the street or come up behind them. I think I get more people moving out of my way when I come up behind them. Maybe they don't like a flashing light in their mirrors, or they think I'm a cop or something (I guess having the ED 80 colors doesn't hurt that illusion). Mission accomplished.Tell you what, if you do get the Comagination headlight kit, be prepared to do some wire splicing. The Rock, being that it has two separate lights, doesn't have the usual headlight connector. So, what would normally be a plug and play operation turns into a wire tracing and splicing job.
I thought about the best place to splice the unit in (it's not very large, about 1" diameter by 1" high), decided that I didn't want a wire mess right behind my headlight, so decided to pull the tank and splice under there.
The pain was tracing the wires so that I could cut them and splice in. The positive was relatively easy because it was the only white wire running through that wire lume, but there were like five grounds, and of course since they are all connected... (Ah... to ground) trying to probe with a multimeter to trace the wire didn't work. So, had to manually trace the wire, which pretty much meant slitting the casing off the lume almost along it's entire length from the headlight to under the tank.. So, what should have been a 15 minute job turned into a couple hours by the time I had the wires traced, the unit spliced in, and the wire lume taped back together.
