On/off switch for headlight, taillight

[luftkoph]

It wouldn't be difficult to do, run it through a relay getting power off of the battery, that way your headlight would be getting full voltage, at least the headlight doesn't go through the starter button like some bikes, where when you hit the started button, it disconnects the headlight until the started button is released, that's like 4.5 amps running through a contact not much bigger than a pin head, failure will surely happen, everything's a compromise.

[Who Dat?]

Not wanting to kill permanently, just never saw a need to have the large draw for the lights at the same time as the large draw from the starter. Lights off, start eng. then lights back on. Flip a switch, not fooling with a fuse.

If you are comfortable with wiring, you can do this automatically with a relay. Install the relay between the fuse and the headlight, using the NC (normally closed) contacts of the relay. Wire the relay trigger to the starter solenoid, so when you push the starter button, it opens the contacts to the headlight. When you release the starter button, the relay closes and the headlight is ON.

[rphillips]

Yes, that may be what Honda did. My "83" Honda CB1100F light comes on with ign. then while starter engaged light goes off, then back on when start button is released. Within a few yrs., all the Mfg. came up with a solution. Thinking Kawasaki had a system where light didn't come on till eng. started. Don't know how Yama did it, and slightly embarrassing to say but don't remember how Suzuki fixed it. Guess I's just a few yrs. ahead of those big Mfg's.