Soldering required? I also have none of those types of tools and experience (yet)
CoLight Aux Lights - Fitting & Thoughts
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Jimmybeaumont
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I used solder free connectors, so just a bit of heat and wire strippers.
Same, those connectors with the solder already in that you just heat up.
For now mine are just connected with Wago’s while I’m testing different configs out
Interesting - I must look into some videos that show this. Would love to fit a pair.
Yes please!
Oh no joke - you're the stammering biker? Awesome haha
I've been watching your video on how to do the B6 light as I have one coming!
I'm about to fit the same, 4 circuits with the amber doubling up as indicators. To be honest I have no idea how to wire this up, if at all possible would you drop me a sketch please ? My assumption is 2 plugs used per side , one being just for the amber & the other for the main & dip ? Or are they all wired into one plug(per side) and set up in the EzCan
Any advice appreciated, I can't find any YouTube info on the actual wiring up the plugs.
Thanks, Mark
Brilliant , I'll keep a look out, much appreciated
sorry, link won't open
Strange it works for me, I'll link the full video when it's out on Monday but I've done some wiring diagrams for the 3 different ways I'd potentially wire it up (my opinion entirely). I've gone with the 4 channel setup as I currently don't have anything else running off the EzCan. One thing that helped simplify it was finding out the earth wire doesn't need to go to ALL of the EzCan channels, just one which made the whole process much easier.
Please bear in mind I'm not an auto electrician nor am I a wiring diagram expert haha
Thank you so much, that's perfect and makes perfect sense to me now. Lights are due today so looking forward to getting it all sorted.
I really appreciate your time with this, I have 0% electrical/technical knowledge and was really nervous about making a pig's near of it. Advice has been priceless , thank you again
That is a great description of the different ways to wire them up. Only wish you'd done it before I fitted mine!
Finally got my video out, apologies its a bit long and waffly, I filmed it in chunks over about 6 weeks as life has been a bit upside down so the video doesn't flow quite as well as I'd have hoped.
One of, if not the best how to clips on the D09 pro. The wiring and set up is brilliant.
Thank you for sharing and giving up your time.
No fears installing now, mine are going on the crash bars
Sorry for being thick, but I can't work out what you actually purchasedAdded some pics - but if I'm honest, I think the actual value here is nothing to do with pics to look at.
The value is that I'm a materials scientist (not an influencer, not a youtuber, not a dealer). I don't sell these things, or have any interest in anyone else buying them. But I am super fussy, and completely understand what quality looks & feels like. That's my day job.
I've compared these colight d09 pro lights directly in the real world with my own previous Denail d7 lights (non pro), and my pal's brand new motolights. In real life.
My final thoughts are that I see no difference in quality of materials (none - these are 100% up the physical build of the premium brands), and light output is also much the same (I didn't measure lumens - but they are all idiot levels of brightness).
Just like the motolights, I think the amber ring DRL isn;t really bright enough to be anything other than a 'pretty gimmick' TBH - I will run the DRL as amber ring + low beam (as seen in photo 4). The amber ring is virtually an exact match for brightness to the handguard indicators - likely what they were aiming for when designing these. But to my eye - it's just not enough to stand out as a daytime running light. My mate (on a multistrada v4s) feels the exact same about the motolight DRL - just not bright enough during the daytime.
All features / multiple brightness / strobing with horns etc is determined by the hex ezcan - so the colights can do all the fancy stuff.
Amber ring is seperately controllable / in low beam only the bottm 4 LEDS light up with diffuse spread / high beam you get the top 4 TIR LEDS, plus a central projector.
I think the main step up is the fact you have 3x seperate circuits - so you can make your own mind up about low beam / high beam / DRL / indicators etc - I think the motolight is the only other light out there that gives this flexibility.
There is always that question mark about reliability I guess - they are Chinesium. But, I'm pretty certain that the working parts of every single premium light out there is also Chinesium, and colight has been selling aux lights for cars & bikes 10+ years with a decent reputation & I cannot find anyone complaining about failures - so I'm happy enough.
At this point I just don't see what you get for the extra money. Light pods alone these are £115 delivered. The Denali's something like £700, same for the motolights. All will need brackets & a controller - so that's moot.
So - I've taken the chance on them, you can make your own choices
They are fantastic IMHO.
Can you put a link in to what you bought, please
