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The PHID ignitor (blue in color, as seen below) is built directly into the back of the lamp, which is extremely convenient in that the ballast are now free to be placed anywhere on the bike the user sees fit. |
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The PHIDs are assembled such that the wire inputs to the ignitor emerge from the right side of the lamps (viewed while facing the rear of the lamp, as above). This is great when mounting the left lamp (as you sit on the bike), since the wire harness emerges inboard toward the cowling bodywork. However, when mounting the right lamp (again, as you sit on the bike), the wire harness to the ignitor now faces outboard, which results in having to immediately bend the wiring 180 degrees and route the harness back across the body of the lamp before continuing on into the cowling area.
Fortunately enough, it's a fairly simple process to "flip" the ignitor itself 180 degrees, so that the connector faces inboard. With both connectors now facing inboard toward the bike, this makes for much cleaner-looking installation.
"Flipping" the Ignitor
Placed a small flat-blade screwdriver to pry up the black aluminum latch that hold the retaining tab (pointed to by yellow arrow below) on blue ignitor body. Insert some folded matchbook cardboard (or similar material) under aluminum latch to keep it up and away from retaining tab. Repeat for the retaining tab on the opposite side of the ignitor. |
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GENTLY pull ignitor body straight back out. NOTE: it may take a goodly amount of force to do this.... work carefully, slowly and methodically!
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| {Regarding above photo:) Initially though I had chipped a tiny part of the base next to original notch (yellow arrow above). However, a careful, thorough search of the immediate area (was working over a white sheet just in case parts came flying out) and also inside the lamp housing itself did not reveal any chipped base remnants. Looking at internal housing layout (next to last picture below) also did not reveal how anything could have cause the chip upon retraction. I'm now fairly convinced it was always chipped, perhaps from original assembly... no big deal, as far as I can tell.
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Yellow arrow above point to area marked with Sharpie that must be cut out to form new notched area to reside within lamp housing
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As you can see after the first pass with Dremel above, you have to use a teeny-tiny grinding wheel to cut notch, and even then, I hit the ignitor housing lightly a few times (yellow arrow points to inadvertent grind marks).
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Several more passes to "square off" notch and clean off rough burrs... looking pretty good here.
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Here is the lamp housing tang that aligns with the notch on HID bulb base. Note rectangular rubber gasket that forms weatherproof seal against the elements once ignitor body is re-inserted into lamp housing and aluminum tangs are locked down over retaining tabs:
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| FINAL RESULTS! True "mirror opposites"... "left and right" lamps respectively (standing in front of bike), ready to install!
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