Topic: DDM hi/lo HID kit... did they screw up or am I an idiot?

[nicks2319]

Hey everyone. Just got my DDM HID kit in the mail yesterday. Went to piece it together and realized that the harness they gave me seems to have a few extra connectors and plugs in odd places in general. I contacted their crummy support system and they quickly said I had the right harness, but it doesn't seem to match up.

Does anyone have this kit, and can tell me if you simply don't use 3 of the connectors?

Here's the kit: http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/DDM-35W-55W-Single-HiLo-Motorcycle-HID-Kit

This seems fine:





But then I have two large 9006-style connectors on the harness, one of which plugs into the previous photo, but then another that goes nowhere.



Thanks for any opinions.

[flybox1]

The harness needs to be wired in to allow your bulb to actuate and change beam pattern when your hi-beam switch is activated.
lemme look on their site to find the installation tutorial. 

Here you go... download the .pdf  Its for a car, but the function is the same.
https://www.ddmtuning.com/support/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=11&nav=0,1

[wrenchmuch]

They talk about the harness being able to connect to 2 drivers. That's what the second set of connections is for. I just installed my kit from them yesterday. It came with no instructions. I ended up using the shorter harness and cutting the longer one off leaving just enough to
Put heat shrink and tape on the individual conductors. I mounted the relay just ahead of the coils under the tank , put the driver up under the upper triple clamp and put the transformer ( last box before the bulb ) in the headlight shell. In retrospect I should have used the longer leads as I ended up extending the shorter ones by about 4". I ran 2 14 gauge wires from the battery. I took a black from the battery neg to the headlight shell and red from the top of the starter solenoid on the battery side. I put an in line blade type fuse holder with a 15 amp fuse on the red behind the left side cover. I tapped into the red to power an ignition coil relay under the tank to save my kill switch from the increased load from Dyna 3 ohm coils and then took the red up to the headlight shell to power the lights. Everything works !
Hope this helps
Mike

[nicks2319]

The harness needs to be wired in to allow your bulb to actuate and change beam pattern when your hi-beam switch is activated.
lemme look on their site to find the installation tutorial. 

Here you go... download the .pdf  Its for a car, but the function is the same.
https://www.ddmtuning.com/support/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=11&nav=0,1

Thanks, yeah I figured that, but I was just confused as to why I had double connectors.

[nicks2319]

They talk about the harness being able to connect to 2 drivers. That's what the second set of connections is for. I just installed my kit from them yesterday. It came with no instructions. I ended up using the shorter harness and cutting the longer one off leaving just enough to
Put heat shrink and tape on the individual conductors. I mounted the relay just ahead of the coils under the tank , put the driver up under the upper triple clamp and put the transformer ( last box before the bulb ) in the headlight shell. In retrospect I should have used the longer leads as I ended up extending the shorter ones by about 4". I ran 2 14 gauge wires from the battery. I took a black from the battery neg to the headlight shell and red from the top of the starter solenoid on the battery side. I put an in line blade type fuse holder with a 15 amp fuse on the red behind the left side cover. I tapped into the red to power an ignition coil relay under the tank to save my kill switch from the increased load from Dyna 3 ohm coils and then took the red up to the headlight shell to power the lights. Everything works !
Hope this helps
Mike

Yes, this is exactly what I needed to know. I just wanted to make sure that those extra plugs weren't needed before I went chopping this thing up. That info helps a ton. Thanks!

[exf5003]

I put an in line blade type fuse holder with a 15 amp fuse on the red behind the left side cover. I tapped into the red to power an ignition coil relay under the tank to save my kill switch from the increased load from Dyna 3 ohm coils and then took the red up to the headlight shell to power the lights. Everything works !
Hope this helps
Mike

Hey wrenchmuch I'm soon going to have mine to try and connect and your method seems great. Only problem is I'm pretty useless with electrical problems.  I get how u wired the negative and put an in line blade fuse holder to positive but lost me from there. Any chance you get explain it to a child... and if you have pretty pictures that would help
Thanks

[wrenchmuch]

I'll try and get pics of what I did this weekend . Probably Saturday .