Follow up - Final Headlight Wiring Question

[Koko]

In a quest to bring back the lighting on my '05 EC250, I posted this thread.

http://www.gasgasrider.org/forum/new...newthread&f=19

First question..those with lights, was it typical to have an on/off switch. So just the headlight was on or off. That's it? Is the tailight/brakelight always on?

Reason I ask is because of the following:

I ended up identifying that up front, I have 4 wires being unused.

1 - Yellow w/ green stripe (I believe this is a common ground)
2 - Violet wires
1 - Yellow ( I believe this is the "hot" wire).

Out back, I had one plug, containing a Violet, Yellow/Green, and White wire.

I know that was for the tailight. Yellow green being ground, Violet bringing power and the white wire sending the brake light signal.


I wired my toggle using a double pole, double throw toggle. Figuring the 2 violet wires were for a high and low beam. My results were...meh.

Toggle in center position. No headlight, tailight or braklight.

Toggle switch in the up position. Tailight and brakelight work.

Toggle switch in the down position. Healight, Tailight and brakelight work.

The light really wasn't that bright and got a bit better with revving but nothing stellar.

Should I only use the high beam wire off the headlight (red per diagram)? Or should I wire the high/low wires together off the headlight?

Here's a really rough diagram.


But I don't think that's right. I think one violet is for power the tailight, one to the headlight?