• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

2005 TE450 LED Headlight Advice

T

The Mayor

Husqvarna
Hello,

Rebuilding my 2005 TE450, and have a Baja Designs Squadron Sport headlight I'd like to use. Looking for advice on how to best wiring it in (and keep it as simple as possible).
  • BD Headlight is rated at 26w/2amps
  • Bike electrics/harness are bare minimum. No key. Start and Kill switch. Acerbis LED tail/brake run off AC.
  • My understanding is that the stator output is 100w AC / 30w DC (or there about).
I'd like to keep the light on the AC circuit, and not have to wire in a switch. Also think putting in a AC to DC converter for the headlight would help it last and remove the flicker. However, that's as far as my "knowledge" goes.
Is using an AD to DC converter that possible? If so, any recommendations?
Or should I just wire it to DC/Battery using a switch?
Fuse? Relay?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
Possible, Yes.
I was planning to use what's called a buck converter. search "AC/DC to DC Buck Step Down Volt Converter 3.3V 5V 9V 12V 24V 6A Rectifier Filter" in ebay. Less than $10 shipped and should be good for double what you need power wise. Just need to build a custom enclosure to protect the circuit board. Circuit protection is always a good idea; not much provision provided with the stock loom, so you'll be on your own for that portion.

The crappy part is BD has a version of the Squadron that can run off of AC, but they will not sell the module separately...

Cyclops sells an AC to DC rectifier to use with their LED replacement blubs that will also work if custom is not your cup of tea.
https://www.cyclopsadventuresports.com/Rectifier-for-LED-Light-Module_p_85.html
 
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