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KTM Duke 390 is one of those bikes in which a lot of owners are finding it hard to find a spot to effectively install a fog light without spoiling the looks of the bike.
I had 2 goals from this mod, The First was to increase the nighttime visibility since the stock lights were useless at night and the second was that the bike should not look ugly with the mod.
Although there were lights with multiple LEDs I wanted something as small and sleek as possible. Therefore I got HJG mini fogl ights.
The next step was to determine the position of the light. I wanted to position it as high as possible to make the light effective.
I found out that there are so-called aluminum fork clamps which were manufactured by Chinese manufacturers.
Price 850/pair.
Fan for cooling the LED. It seems to be variable speed as the sound tend to increase on certain modes.
Price for the clamp. Rs450/pair.
The light has 5 modes and it cycles through them on power on and off if done within 5 seconds. First is a red DRL, then a white low beam, yellow high beam, white and yellow and medium power, white and yellow strobe, and finally red strobe. It is 20W per bulb.
As for me the most useful and the one I am going to use is the white low beam which is excellent in lighting up the road and not causing any glare to the oncoming traffic.
Instead of getting a ready-made fog light wiring kit, I made a custom wiring setup using a 1mm2 wire, a relay, and a switch. To summarize it, the power for the light is drawn directly from the battery through a 30amp fuse and a relay which is normally closed. To trigger the relay, I took the power from the accessory port of the bike under the seat and ran it through a switch that was mounted on the handle. Simple and efficient setup.
Thankfully the bike had enough space under the left tank panel above the charcoal canister to accommodate the relay.
There are 2 relays in the bike, one is for the dual horn setup and the black one on top is the newly added one for the fog light. It was a tight fit since this is a naked bike. Faired bikes have tonne of space to do mods.
How to look when everything is back on.
The Uno Minda handlebar switch for the light.
Final look.
I have not tested out the light since it's still daytime and I am writing this blog literally after finishing up the work.
I will test it out tonight and do the final alignment of both lights to make them as effective as possible and post the results here.
I had 2 goals from this mod, The First was to increase the nighttime visibility since the stock lights were useless at night and the second was that the bike should not look ugly with the mod.
Although there were lights with multiple LEDs I wanted something as small and sleek as possible. Therefore I got HJG mini fogl ights.
The next step was to determine the position of the light. I wanted to position it as high as possible to make the light effective.
I found out that there are so-called aluminum fork clamps which were manufactured by Chinese manufacturers.
Price 850/pair.
Fan for cooling the LED. It seems to be variable speed as the sound tend to increase on certain modes.
Price for the clamp. Rs450/pair.
The light has 5 modes and it cycles through them on power on and off if done within 5 seconds. First is a red DRL, then a white low beam, yellow high beam, white and yellow and medium power, white and yellow strobe, and finally red strobe. It is 20W per bulb.
As for me the most useful and the one I am going to use is the white low beam which is excellent in lighting up the road and not causing any glare to the oncoming traffic.
Instead of getting a ready-made fog light wiring kit, I made a custom wiring setup using a 1mm2 wire, a relay, and a switch. To summarize it, the power for the light is drawn directly from the battery through a 30amp fuse and a relay which is normally closed. To trigger the relay, I took the power from the accessory port of the bike under the seat and ran it through a switch that was mounted on the handle. Simple and efficient setup.
Thankfully the bike had enough space under the left tank panel above the charcoal canister to accommodate the relay.
There are 2 relays in the bike, one is for the dual horn setup and the black one on top is the newly added one for the fog light. It was a tight fit since this is a naked bike. Faired bikes have tonne of space to do mods.
How to look when everything is back on.
The Uno Minda handlebar switch for the light.
Final look.
I have not tested out the light since it's still daytime and I am writing this blog literally after finishing up the work.
I will test it out tonight and do the final alignment of both lights to make them as effective as possible and post the results here.