Here is what I did with my 700. The 1000 will probably be different but at least should give you some ideas.
I mounted two 18 watt LEDs to the rear bumper. I wanted them to only come on if I had the headlights on, and in reverse.
I started by taking the source voltage ( hot ) from the left rear tail light, and connected the ground to the wire coming from the gear selector switch. Every time you shift to reverse, the gear selector switch grounds the circuit and turns the lights on.
Not sure if the 1000 uses a similar gear selection switch, but this should give you something to think about.
Good luck
I mounted two 18 watt LEDs to the rear bumper. I wanted them to only come on if I had the headlights on, and in reverse.
I started by taking the source voltage ( hot ) from the left rear tail light, and connected the ground to the wire coming from the gear selector switch. Every time you shift to reverse, the gear selector switch grounds the circuit and turns the lights on.
Not sure if the 1000 uses a similar gear selection switch, but this should give you something to think about.
Good luck
Heres what I did on my 700, I bought a mechanical limit switch and mounted it up under the dash near the shifting mechanism. When you put the gear selector in reverse in hits the switch and turns on the lites. My reverse lights are also wired to a 3 position switch on the dash, with the switch in the up position the reverse lites will be on, middle position is completely off and down position they will come on in reverse only. Having the ability to have them on without being in reverse is really handy. I don't have any pics of the switch installed (i'll get some when I put power steering in) but this is what I used
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Find the sub transmission gear position switch wires under your seat.
5 wires - White, Light Blue, Light Green, Gray, and Blue-Red.
They are all ground triggers.
Gray is the reverse ground trigger.
Tap this and use it as your trigger for a relay.
Then... Lights will come on when in reverse.
Run it through a switch if you like for the daytime.
0r.. For small power draw lights. @Springer's method will work just the same.
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I got em installed tonight. Thanks to @Springer and @Hondasxs. I ran two 9w eagle eye LEDs mounted on the corners of the bed. They fire off perfectly when put in reverse.
The ground trigger concept is new to me. I read something about it somewhere else on this forum and I think I got it but still a bit confused.
Can someone confirm:
- the pioneer electrical system uses mostly a positive trigger system.
- some circuits use negative trigger (like the gear position switch)
- all of our add-on's will use positive trigger
I'm about to start wiring my accessories - hopefully I don't need to re-learn what I thought was common sense.
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When using the ground as a trigger (say on a back up light), you would supply the light itself with a constant positive and "switch"the ground. All your light needs is a complete path from positive thru the light to ground, all you need to do is open either side of the circuit to turn the light off.The pos. side would be a pos trigger, the neg. side would be a neg trigger.
I'm at the point of now installing my back up lights. The wiring harness is huge, hate to tie wrap that mass along the ROPS, will be giving that some greater thought today. May go the route described to minimize some wiring. Is the tail lights wiring heavy enough to carry the load of two additional lights? That would be my greatest concern.
Did some research, the draw for the two lights is only 1.45 amps. Feeling better about the option. Thanks for the ideas!
Did some research, the draw for the two lights is only 1.45 amps. Feeling better about the option. Thanks for the ideas!
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Here is the link that hondasxs posted
P1000 - Key On Power, Illumination, and backup source! - Honda Pioneer 1000 | The Honda Side by Side Club!
Looks like a great option but according to the instructions you have to tear apart half the machine to access the wire. I can't believe they made installation such an ordeal - for their own backup alarm. 4 pages of instructions but probably not as bad as it looks.
P1000 - Key On Power, Illumination, and backup source! - Honda Pioneer 1000 | The Honda Side by Side Club!
Looks like a great option but according to the instructions you have to tear apart half the machine to access the wire. I can't believe they made installation such an ordeal - for their own backup alarm. 4 pages of instructions but probably not as bad as it looks.
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does anyone have the part number to this factory harness? If I can tap into it, i'd rather go that route. Thanks!
We often ride at night so back up lights and cab lights are important. I just used some white LED strip lights on the roll bars and blue ones inside the roof. I wired the reverse lights separately so they can double as turn signals.
