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Hey guys, Great site!
I have been visiting anon' for a few months and found great tips and tech and decided to join in. I ride a '05 TBA FREAKED, with blue neon lights under the engine and red LED's under the tank.
I was wondering if anyone out there has tried to wire the light bar lights to come on with the high beam switch? I just installed a light bar this winter and it seems unsafe trying to reach so far forward to turn the light bar on/off while riding?

Any tips would be appreciated
Thanx

I did the opposite. My is on all the time and shuts off with the high beam. I also have an overide switch on the console. I suppose you could wire it the way you want. All you'd is a relay. There is a copy of the schematic on the tech vault.

Heya Nickolis, and welcome to the site.

You'll have to post a pic or two of your ride with the neons running - not seen them on a triumph yet.

Yeah the lightbar switch is in a completely stupid place. There's no reason you can't run it off the high beam switch - in standard trim the connector is wired up so they're on whenever either beam's on, but it also has wires there (unused) for both low and high beams, so it's a simple matter of moving a wire to change the behaviour of the lightbar. As a legal issue, in Australia you're not allowed to have extra lights unless they're wired up to only work with high beam.

Several members (myself included) have chosen instead to put a small switch with a weatherproof cover on the tank console and use it for the lightbar instead of the standard one. In fact I have TWO switches there (using an adapter plate made by one of our members to mount one in the clock adjustment position) with the second one wired up as hazard lights.

There's write-ups about both these ideas on my site, which you can find in my signature.

Thanks for the info. I'll post some pics in a while. I was out riding in the sun on friday but today it snowed again. Now I'll have a chance to try this mod.

I did mine a bit differently. I took the switch out of the left side light and put in a rubber plug. I put a switch on the left side of the console and ran a wire from it to the blue high beam light on the console. The other wire out of the switch goes to the switch circuit on the relay that controls power to the lightbar. By wiring it this way it only comes on witht the high beams but I can shut them off completely if I need to. By moving the switch to the console I have much better access to the switch while riding and it made wiring it to the high beam indicator much easier.