rewiring...

[hubcapsc]

Just got home from helping Gary rewire the driving lights on his Valk... previous owner had wired them
up by just cramming the hot wire into the accessory fuse in the fuse box, had a 10 amp fuse
in there...

We mapped out what was there, and ended up keeping most of it, but now it gets power
through a relay and has a proper connection into the side-cover-accessory lead... and
a 5 amp fuse back in the accessory fuse slot...



Driving down the road in a few minutes to collect a bunch of hay bales (it's hot here  )...

-Mike

[RALANDRY51]

I need to do that. I just replaced my starter switch on the handlebar and the tech said it went out so quick (15k mi) because it was wired incorrectly in the head light housing. Said I need to get a relay to do it correctly. Can you give me any pointers on how to find out a good way to do this. I figure on connecting it to the Aux connections which are fused already at the side cover but i don't know much about relays as far as what to get, where to get and how to wire them.

Rich

[Gear Jammer]

Rich,  Got to  http://www.rattlebars.com/mtz/starter.html   Not too difficult, just take your time.  And the "BLUE with White" wire you're looking for, is a "ROYAL" blue, not the "SKY" blue wire.  Don't ask.

[Cleaner Man]

does this mean I've got a problem?  I just installed a new set of accessory lights on my '97 Standard...and I connected my relay to the sky blue w/white line, not the darker blue w/white line.
I haven't had a chance to ride yet, but everything seems OK (blinkers, dims, hi's, horn, etc).  I won't tell you how many hours this project took...do I need to re-do something?

[hubcapsc]

I started working today on installing the awesome Rivco lights, that I got from Gear Jammer (thanks!).

This picture pretty much shows what I have in mind, and is pretty much the same idea as what we
did to Gary's bike back whenever I posted the first message in this thread... notice that in this picture,
the wiring for accessory driving lights is totally separate from the wiring for the OEM headlight. The
switch in the picture is an added switch, just for the driving lights...



If you right-click on this image and "view image", it'll get bigger, the VRCC message board scales
pictures..

The basic idea is that you don't want to draw a bunch of amps from your accessory lead, you
just want to use your accessory lead (or what ever hot wire you choose) to drive a relay, and
hook your added lights (or whatever) straight to the battery (through the relay)...

Reading between the lines on RALANDRY51's post, I thought he meant that he or someone had
added some kind of accessory that was trying to draw current through some wire in the switch,
instead of using the wire to trigger a relay... hopefully the rattlebar page (rattlebars has an awesome
relay de-mystifying picture) or the picture I got from Rivco will help clarify everyone's questions...

-Mike