Disable Signal Dynamics modulator on low beam?

 Ok reeky, I need your help. I purchased and successfully installed a
Signal Dynamics Diamond Star headlight modulator, but it has this
stupid feature where it HAS to be connected to the low beam circuit
(for their "special" burnt-out bulb detector). I don't want my low
beam to modulate, ever, so I wish to defeat this feature. (It's only
the high beam that I want to modulate, and I don't care about the
other fancy things this device can do.)

I can't just leave the low beam leads unconnected, because the
modulator will think my low beam is burned out and will helpfully
switch to an unmodulated high beam all the time. No good. So... how
else can I make it so that my low beam never modulates?

The way this thing works is, it has four leads -- two for each beam.
For each beam, you put + on one lead, and the headlight on the other
lead. I assume the modulator senses the amount of voltage or current
between these two leads to check for a dead filament? If that's the
case, can I just tee into to the low beam wire for the + and then
connect the other side... where? I'm pretty sure sending it to ground
will be a fuse-blowing short, and teeing BOTH leads into the low beam
wire means the modulator will see voltage but no current (but... maybe
that will still successfully defeat it?).

Thoughts?

 

If it doesn't see current through the low beam circuit, it will turn
on the high beam... no way around that.  Perhaps you can connect
both circuits to the high beam... you might blow stuff up, though.

Here's the best thing to do... use the manual off switch.

http://www.signaldynamics.com/products/DiamondStar/dshm.asp

"Toggle Modulation ON and OFF -  The modulation of the headlight can be
toggled on and off by the user at any time. When the bike is started the
default is modulation ON. To turn the modulation on or off simply switch
your bikes high low beam switch to the opposite position, and then back to
the original position within one second (this can be done with the switch in
either the high or low beam position)."

No big hairy-ass deal.
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Steve
'06 FXDI
KI5YG
DoD 627
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Hm, nice, there's an idea that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks!


Yeah, so here's how that'll work. I ride with my low beam on, but I
see a left-turner up ahead. To enable my modulated high beam, I switch
to high, then low, then back to high. Then to get back to my
unmodulated low beam, I have to flick the switch three more times. My
thumb says no thanks.

 
So sell it, and buy a Kisan.

And next time, do your research *before* you buy.

 Stephen Cowell wrote:

If one wants only the high beam modulated, then that's the wrong modulator
to buy.

Personally I don't see the big deal--if I'm using a modulator I want it to
modulate all the time unless I tell it not to.