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Hey all
2013 cbr500r

Hoping to find some people with expertise in the electrical field, forgive my ignorance as I’m a beginner at this

long story short, aftermarket headlights both shorted out one day, found the ground wire that had an open circuit, cut off and recrimped new connector for the ground prong for the h4 bulb. I believe the original reason the ground wire melted was one connector from relay was loose (bought identical replacement and planning on glueing back together like previous owner), (before and after)
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google tells me (in my case yellow=low white=high and black ground/neutral position) for h4 prongs… is what I did the right positioning?
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Lastly both headlight bulbs have the same the wires like the picture above, do I need to connect up the highbeam bulb yellow wire to the (black wire) power if all I need is the highbeam? (Black wire is constant voltage, assuming it’s the low beam)
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Before I pulled apart the wires and relay, when I switch the highbeam on, voltage shows lowbeam goes to 0v to save current, and guessing the highbeam powers both? Now when I switch highbeam the voltage doesnt Go to 0, whys that?

thanks in advance, any help is appreciated

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From the 2013 factory service manual

There is an electrical cable that runs from the bike's main electrical harness to a 4 wire connector in the headlight area. This connector carries power for the two headlights and the small "position" light.
The aftermarket installation probably plugs into this connector or crimps to its wires.

This factory cable has the following colors
green = ground (goes to all three bulb sockets)
blue = high beam
white = low beam
pink/blue = position light

The blue wire goes back to the headlight relay and the high-beam dash light.

The factory headlight relay does not disconnect the low beam when it activates the high beam.
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If you know the model and brand of the headlight conversion, perhaps someone else has used it and can offer specific advice.

Since a wire melted, check the rating of the physical fuse in the fuse box. Someone may have installed a way-too-big rated fuse to "fix" occasional fuse blowing due to the bad wiring you mention.
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Note that we don't know how this "conversion" is supposed to work. It's whole point is that it is different from the stock system. somehow "better" (or not).

I suggest you try to find someone local to help.

If nothing else, you could remove the entire conversion (which might include the 3 pin bulb sockets?), buy the stock Honda parts + correct bulbs, put them in the bike, and have a working headlight system. One we could compare with our bikes if there is a problem.

There are online sellers of Honda OEM parts who have better prices than a local dealer. They show the factory part diagrams so you can order the correct parts.
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