Hella Xenon Micro DE installation

At some point I figured more light for the dark Finnish autumns is needed. Especially when the moose hunting season starts, those huge (and stupid) animals cause a lot of accidents. Most of the fatal for the bikers...

So I found these Hella Xenon Micro DE HID lights that were nice and very powerful and first of all small in size. I had seen people hide their auxiliary lights behind the side panels so I decided to tackle the job as well.

This shows the final installation. Seen from this angle the lights are not 100 % in vertical position but this does not matter since they are not normally stared from this direction. 

There is a horizontal shelf in the plastic inner liner of the side fairings. I did not want to bolt the lights directly to the plastic as I thought it would probably vibrate and in the worst case break. For brackets I used the standard L-shaped steel pieces that are typically used for joining wooden structures together. These can be found in most hardware stores. I trimmed off the corner from the vertical part of the bracket and then painted it black. The LT side fairing has double walls in this place so it was easy to put three screws in the vertical side...

...and then drill a hole through the horizontal plastic shelf of the liner and install the light fastening bolt through the steel and plastic. This picture also shows the HID ballast peeking from behind the inner liner.

...like this.

The ballast is held in place by a zip tie. The power feeding cable for the ballast is also shown here and that was easy to tie in the plastic bracket that is connecting the inner liner to the outer panel.

And here is bike side connector that needs to be disconnected when the side fairing is removed.

And power feed to these was straight forward. I took the main power from my front fuse block through a 10 or 15 A fuse. Pulled this main current to one of my several mini relays and from the relay to both of the Xenon ballasts. The pilot current for the relay was "stolen" (via an extra switch)  from the bike's high beam so these new driving lights operate together with bike's own high beams.