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Electrics / Re: H4 headlight
« Last post by banquo on September 24, 2020, 12:42:52 pm »
I took a live feed and earth directly from the battery, with the live feed going to a micro relay triggered by a feed from the brake light switch, so it switches on with the ignition. That feed is taken all the way to the headlamp shell, where it feeds another two micro relays, one for main beam, and one for dip. The relay coils are fed from the main beam and dip feeds from the dipswitch, respectively. That way, I have a heavy cable from battery to relays to minimise voltage drop, and remove the headlamp current from both light/dipswitch and ignition switch. The easier way would be to divert the feed from ignition switch to the light switch to the relay inputs, thus removing the load only from the light switch, but it was easy to bring a dedicated feed from the battery, and I thought that unloading the ignition switch was probably a good thing to do. Bringing a heavy earth cable from battery to the bulbholder also minimises voltage drop.
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Electrics / Re: H4 headlight
« Last post by Rob vW on September 23, 2020, 10:09:19 am »
I am sure that the Honda CB350/400 light fits fine. The CB 350 was never officially imported into the UK and would have the wrong dip beam for us here anyway. Also, the CB400/4 headlight tends to be rather expensive when compared with the Hella light from a VW Polo mk1.

I am interested in which relays you fitted and how you connected the wiring.  Did you need 2 relays, 1 for dip beam and 1 for main beam?
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Electrics / Dynastarter conversion for NF Militare
« Last post by Rob vW on September 22, 2020, 01:43:29 pm »
I am thinking of converting my NF Militare to a dynastart.

Does anyone have a  wiring diagram to show the correct connections and extra wiring?
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Electrics / Re: Poor Headlight
« Last post by Feistko on September 22, 2020, 09:35:29 am »
Hi,
I bought on ebay for 40EUR
https://www.ebay.de/itm/Honda-CB-350-Four-CB-400-Four-H4-Einsatz-neu-Reflektor-154mm-reflector/362968712928?hash=item54829f06e0:g:n6sAAOSwQTVV~BdD

Fits allmost perfect. BUT I recommend using relays between the original switch and the H4 bulb. H4 consumes about 50% more current. The switch contacts will wear out sooner. I mounted two switching relays, one for the short and the other for the high beam.
Regards
Feistko
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Electrics / Re: H4 headlight
« Last post by Feistko on September 22, 2020, 09:31:22 am »
Hi,
I bought on ebay for 40EUR
https://www.ebay.de/itm/Honda-CB-350-Four-CB-400-Four-H4-Einsatz-neu-Reflektor-154mm-reflector/362968712928?hash=item54829f06e0:g:n6sAAOSwQTVV~BdD

Fits allmost perfect. BUT I recommend using relays between the original switch and the H4 bulb. H4 consumes about 50% more current. The switch contacts will wear out sooner. I mounted two switching relays, one for the short and the other for the high beam.
Regards
Feistko
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Newbies say hello / Re: Just to say hello.
« Last post by Feistko on September 22, 2020, 09:21:26 am »
Hi, on my Falcone I have Mitas H 03 and I am very pleased with them. ;D
I’ve also talked to colleagues who have oldtimers and a lot of them drive Mitas tires. Good tires for moderate money!
Regards
Feistko
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Electrics / Re: H4 headlight
« Last post by banquo on September 19, 2020, 12:35:27 pm »
That's a useful tip Rob. I read of someone else fitting another headlamp unit, apparently without much modification, but unfortunately can't remember what it was...  >:( For mine, I kept the original, as the reflector is still good, and fitted a halogen bulb with the same Bosch pattern. That improved things, and I've recently improved it a bit more by adding relays for main beam and dip (with the added benefit of taking the load off the unreliable CEV switch) and run a completely separate and dedicated feed and earth directly from battery to the relays and the light.
That's as good as it gets on the stock light, but the beam pattern and focus is quite poor, with a lot of beam spread.
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Electrics / H4 headlight
« Last post by Rob vW on September 18, 2020, 10:32:30 am »
If you want to improve the headlight on a Nuovo Falcone, you can use the headlight unit from a mk 1 VW Polo.  I got one made by Hella.

It is not an exact fit.  You will find that the headlight rim sits on the new headlight glass.  You can fit rubber edging strip onto the rim to give a seal.  You will also need to remove the adjustment brackets from the headlight as they are not needed, and grind off the glass alignment pip at the bottom of the headlight.

The W clips will be a very tight fit to hold the headlight into the rim.  You might only be able to fit 3 clips, but they should be adequate.

Be careful about connecting the headlight wires and get the polarity right.  When you look at the back of the bulb, there are 3 spade connections in an upside down U formation.  The left vertical spade is earth, upper horizontal spade is low beam and right vertical spade is high beam.  As the original wire terminations are bullets, I simply made short wires colour coded according to the originals, with a spade connection for the new headlight end, and bullet connections on the opposite end to go into a joining socket to connect to the original wiring. And if you use a double socket you can wire in the yellow/black wire from the high beam warning light.

As the original CEV headlight reflector on my bike is going rusty, I thought it a worthwhile conversion.
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Wanted and For Sale / Re: Info Wanted s’il vous plaît, ajusteur Dynamo.
« Last post by monohorizontal on August 30, 2020, 12:20:02 pm »
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Wanted and For Sale / Re: Info Wanted please, Dynamo adjuster.
« Last post by philb on August 30, 2020, 11:28:06 am »
I will start to  save some money.
Because I will buy you a beer (or two)   for your help with this.
Hopefully both in Mandello and in the Isle of Man
Best wishes  ,  Phil
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