Can you cut and re-solder high voltage wires on a hid bulb?

[mr_magicfingers]

Spent this afternoon starting the conversion to HID of my micro DE fogs and FF50 spots. The Micro DE's are done (bar the glueing of the rubber back) but I have a question about the FF50's.

HID bulbs have the connectors attached, and they're too big to go through the hole/grommet that the standard wires go through. This leaves two options:

1. Drill a bigger hole in the body of the lamp and feed the wires through that

2. Cut the high voltage wires, pass them through the standard grommet and re-solder them.

Option 2 would be much neater but I'm not sure if it's reasonable to do that with high voltage wires. I know it's possible to get arcing if the insulation isn't sufficient.

If I do this, my plan would be to offset the cuts in the two cables so there isn't two weak spots next to each other and, after soldering the wires back together cover each joint with 2 layers of heatshrink.

Any electrical people care to suggest if this is a reasonable plan or if I should leave the wires alone and go with drilling the casing out.

Cheers,

J.

 

[Attleborough]

My initial reaction is yes but then I'm a fully qualified numpty when it comes to electrickery.

Suggest you contact Les Wassell of this parish who may be found in the vendors section.

Good luck!

A.

 

[ghiribizzo]

I drilled the back out mine although that was the script as I got a kit already made up with grommets from Les W, our man on here.
No doubt the difficulty with cutting the wires is whether Mr.Average would manage it and re-insulate successfully.

If you ain't Mr.Average no worries but where you'd get suitable materials I dunno... A bit of black PVC tape ain't gonna do it!

 

[NeilDD]

Spent this afternoon starting the conversion to HID of my micro DE fogs and FF50 spots. The Micro DE's are done (bar the glueing of the rubber back) but I have a question about the FF50's.

HID bulbs have the connectors attached, and they're too big to go through the hole/grommet that the standard wires go through. This leaves two options:

1. Drill a bigger hole in the body of the lamp and feed the wires through that

2. Cut the high voltage wires, pass them through the standard grommet and re-solder them.

Option 2 would be much neater but I'm not sure if it's reasonable to do that with high voltage wires. I know it's possible to get arcing if the insulation isn't sufficient.

If I do this, my plan would be to offset the cuts in the two cables so there isn't two weak spots next to each other and, after soldering the wires back together cover each joint with 2 layers of heatshrink.

Any electrical people care to suggest if this is a reasonable plan or if I should leave the wires alone and go with drilling the casing out.

Cheers,

J.

Hi Jus

Yes you can cut the HT wires to the bulb unit, but why not just remove the connector shells.
Pull out the red locking tag, then using a small screwdriver release the catch and the shell comes off.

HTH

Neil

 

[Les Wassall]

PM sent

 

[ducatiparts.110mb]

Yes, done it myself. Just insulate the wires afterwards with either tape or heatshrink.

My initial reaction is yes but then I'm a fully qualified numpty when it comes to electrickery.

Why do people say things like this? To give an opinion and then say that actually I haven't a clue seems a bit strange to me.

Mark

 

[hank]

Because he is a fully qualified numpty.

 

[STUBBS]

did you manage it