Modern Vespa

I added a Scooter West / Admore Lighting top case light set to my wife’s 2012’s top case and really liked the increased visibility. Older Vespa top cases had the reflectors on them that made it easy to hide the added LEDs; newer Vespa cases don’t have them. This is what I came up with and at a fraction of the cost.

Some observations; the light’s wiring comes out of the end of the light. I removed material approximately a square centimeter in size from the bottom wire end of the bar so I could bend the cord to pass through a hole under the end of the bar. Thus hiding the wiring hole. Once mounted I filled in the divot that was left with silicone. The light’s wires are very fine, 28 gauge I think. I painted mine to blend in but after the fact I think it would have been fine. The price is such that I’ve ordered a couple extra to keep as spares.
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Brake and tail lights.

Turn signals on the ends.

i actually installed the same exact one on my cutdown at the bottom of the frame... picked it up on ebay for a whole 2 bucks

Nice! Suddenly a new item on my project list.....

Good tip! And the eBay tip too...I can wait a few weeks for the parts to arrive.

Nice!

How did you wire it in? I guess you had to splice into the wiring harness? Or is there a reversible way to use an unused connector, or something like that?

Nicely done!! By any chance do you have pictures of how the wiring was done? I just bought a Primavera and was about to buy the AdMore led bar that I installed on my LXV, but Imlove your solution.

My apologies, apologies, I haven’t looked at this thread since starting it. There have been a couple of good questions posted.
The wires coming from the light bar are very fine, like 28 gauge, so I soldered them directly to a 5 pin automotive all weather connector. I use An old video cable to go from the wiring harness to the connector. Soldered that side together too. I used, and squeeze on splices to connect the wires to the wiring harness. Before I attached the connectors I used crimp on spade connectors to function test every thing. I happen to have a lot of spade connectors handy; if you don’t have spade connectors handy you could just twist the wires together for a functions test.
I put the connector in so I could remove my top case. I take it off in the summer time. If you plan on leaving it on all the time you could skip the connector and just solder the wires together And tape them out of the way in the topcase.
Also, a long, old VGA cable works well between the light bar and the harness. The cables I had were five wire and 22 gauge. That’s in between the light bar and harness wire gauges.


Used step drill bit to optimize hole size

Down for photo. Velcro’ed to the bottom of case


Last edited by usmusket on Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:14 am; edited 5 times in total

Nice work! I would use the connector in any case. Never know when you might need to remove the top case.