walmart lights keep blowing out whats going on?

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Ok I'm trying to do the walmart lights install but am having an issue when I let it idle the lights are fine but every time I rev it up the lights immediately burn out.I have the positive coming from the yellow/red wire and I'm grounding to the frame is this not correct?I followed the write up to the letter using the same products I don't understang it.do I have a voltage reulator going out or gone?the bike runs great but the only electrical is the coil.does the voltage regulator have ne thing to do with the ignition?I'm stumped as to what's going on any help would be greatly appreciated.if it matters I tried the lights one at a time not together.does that matter they weren't wired up together.that's the only thing I can think of its obviously getting too much power some how.
 
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Sounds like a bad voltage regulator. The bike will run fine with a bad regulator but it'll just keep blowing out lights. I ran mine for about a year with a bad regulator. As for hooking up one light at a time, that wouldn't make them blow out.

If you have a multimeter, connect it to your power and ground for your lights and see what it reads. It should be close to 12 volts or a little over when revved up. If its bad the voltage will be much higher when the engine is revved up. I hope this helps to solve your problem.
 
another vote on the regaltor, set you meet to dc+, if its a good one that has 10, 100, etc scale you want it on the 10. If it is working it should put out 12-13 volts, if not it will be somewhere around 16-18 volts I believe.
 
:DOk I'm getting irritated.ok here's the new scenario.I go get new bulbs check that wiring as suggested and the y/r wire just ends after a red plug containing a blue wire as well as black.so I traced the black its a ground as is the blue on.should any of these wires end up at that black box?so I go ahead and hook one of the regular 55w bulbs up and it worked no problem idling reving worked great but when I hooked the second one up it would barely lightem both so I shut it off so I didn't burn it up.I'm stumped does that black box limit the voltage to the y/r wire straight from the stator or what I'm a bit foggy on how it exactly works?I'm not a fan of wiring for these annoying little headaches such as this one.I didn't have this much of a problem building the entire bike I can't belive a dumb ass set of lights are hanging me up:o
 
Well I went on ebay and started looking at voltage regulators and it seems that I don't have one.the black box I've been dicking with is a cdi box not a regulator.anyone have a good regulator for super chesp also now how do I go about adding this in pics would help a lot.thanx
 
When testing the lighting system on a blaster, the multimeter reads when set to AC, just as it is instructed to be set to in the manual. Not trying to be a dick about it, but setting it to dc won't help at all.

As for a voltage regulator, the stock one is mounted under the hood on the opposite side from the cdi box. You should see a flat bracket there with two holes in it. That is where the regulator goes. There should be a blue wire under the hood which is the wire that connects to the regulator. Hope this helps.
 
Hes right about the AC thing. I assumed since it was a 12v system it was DC but it is AC.

The manual says to set it to AC. Thats kind of odd. I guess thats why you need a recitifier to install a battery onto a Blaster.
 
Yea its MIA.so I'm hunting one down asap.now when I get this how many wires are there and what do the connect to?again my phone won't download the file on the manual so pics would be great.anyone have a regulator for cheap?
 
I may have an extra one on my second harness. It came with all the boxes and what not, I just wanted the harness. Hit me up.
 
I just had to pipe in here as you guys are kinda looking in the wrong area. the reason your quad won't light them properly has nothing to do with the AC current. I have been placing fog/driving lights on quads for along time. most quads stators will not run 2 55w halogen bulbs. if you look at a stock bulb its usually a 35/55 setup. I went through a phase on my 250R that kept blowing the left light bulb. its because i was trying to power 110w when 70w is about max. If you look at the Lazer Star lights or the trail tech you will notice that they run a 35w bulb. try running just 1 light and see if it changes. or goto Rickey Stator and get the high output stator from them for 125.00. Also the light will be dim until you rev the RPMS up on all direct stator set ups.
 
reefriot said:
I just had to pipe in here as you guys are kinda looking in the wrong area. the reason your quad won't light them properly has nothing to do with the AC current. I have been placing fog/driving lights on quads for along time. most quads stators will not run 2 55w halogen bulbs. if you look at a stock bulb its usually a 35/55 setup. I went through a phase on my 250R that kept blowing the left light bulb. its because i was trying to power 110w when 70w is about max. If you look at the Lazer Star lights or the trail tech you will notice that they run a 35w bulb. try running just 1 light and see if it changes. or goto Rickey Stator and get the high output stator from them for 125.00. Also the light will be dim until you rev the RPMS up on all direct stator set ups.
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if he followed the DIY to the T the first time around, he was using 2 25w bulbs (IIRC). without a voltage regulator those 12v bulbs will be seeing up to 20+ and that'll kill them fast.
 
Well I agree with a lot of people here. You need to make sure you have a voltage regulator. It will smoke a stock bulb fast regardless the wattage. Its the voltage that will burn the bulb out. If it is a bad regulator or wired some way without it, it will not "regulate" the voltage. On the other hand, I think 55watts is the max output for the stock stator. So if you are using 2 55w bulbs, good luck. will be dim, maybe even burn out the light side of the stator. You need to install the 25w or what I found was 20w bulbs. The replace the 55w bulb that comes with the wally lights.

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