IronMick
12th February 2005, 23:53
My turnsignals on my 1998 ALWAYS cancel too soon, or inconsistently. So i am finally checking them out.
There is an extra black box in the circuit. It is about 3" X 1,3/8" X 3/4". It is solid resin [or whatever] so there is no possibility of seeing inside. It has no markings of any kind on it. It has one black wire going directly to a ground, one brown wire tied into the right rear turn signal wire [at the connection from the wireing harness], and one purple wire similarly going to the left rear.
This box gets warm if i leave the signals running for a few minutes. The black wire going to ground has a couple of frayed strands where it connects to the black box, but otherwise appears to be good.
The bike has custom turn signals with tiny bulbs [plug in not screw in]. I have replaced the tiny bulbs with same style but larger for better visibility. The new signal lights are self grounding so they do not use the ground wire from the harness.
The turn signal controller is the gray box mounted on the back fender. It has an 8-wire connector [different from the 10-wire described in another thread]:
1 - ground
2 - +ve volts
3 - right output
4 - left output
5 - input from speedo
6 - unused
7 - right input
8 - left input
Questions:
1. What is the extra black box?
2. the pin 6 appears to have a reset button; the manual says it is unused. Is this really a button?
3. Any clues to inconsistent signal behaviour?
There is an extra black box in the circuit. It is about 3" X 1,3/8" X 3/4". It is solid resin [or whatever] so there is no possibility of seeing inside. It has no markings of any kind on it. It has one black wire going directly to a ground, one brown wire tied into the right rear turn signal wire [at the connection from the wireing harness], and one purple wire similarly going to the left rear.
This box gets warm if i leave the signals running for a few minutes. The black wire going to ground has a couple of frayed strands where it connects to the black box, but otherwise appears to be good.
The bike has custom turn signals with tiny bulbs [plug in not screw in]. I have replaced the tiny bulbs with same style but larger for better visibility. The new signal lights are self grounding so they do not use the ground wire from the harness.
The turn signal controller is the gray box mounted on the back fender. It has an 8-wire connector [different from the 10-wire described in another thread]:
1 - ground
2 - +ve volts
3 - right output
4 - left output
5 - input from speedo
6 - unused
7 - right input
8 - left input
Questions:
1. What is the extra black box?
2. the pin 6 appears to have a reset button; the manual says it is unused. Is this really a button?
3. Any clues to inconsistent signal behaviour?