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What circuit comes on when ignition is on?

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Detman101

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The reason I need to know is because I recently bought one of these...
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and I need to wire it into the bike full time. I don't know yet what circuit or fuse link to wire this into for it to function when the bike's ignition is turned to "ON". It's waterproof so no worries about it ever getting wet.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks,
Dm of mD
 
Wire it directly to the battery with an inline switch on the positive side so you can turn it on when you want. That way it won't be drawing current when you don't want to use it, and when you don't have the bike running.

Harrison
 
Ah ha!!! Thanks bud. I'll do that. Do you know of any waterproof switches I can buy from somewhere?

Dm of mD
 
Not offhand. Try a marine electronics store or maybe even RadioShack. Or, you could put it under your seat out of the weather. Then, when you wanted to see what was going on, you just stop, raise the seat, and turn it on.

Harrison
 
Hmmm...I think I'd actually rather have it wired into the bike so that I don't have to hit a switch to turn it on and it just comes on with the bike like how I have the analog voltmeter set up on my vulcan 750. I just want to keep it simple and not have too many wires running everywhere with possible resistance points. I'll reference my Vulcan750 clymer manual and see where I wired it into that bike. Then I'll do the same for the GS. Power drops are power drops. They should be relatively the same.

Dm of mD
 
Find the tail light wire, it turns on when the bike is on, and is easily accessable. If you want a more direct connection to the battery, use a relay.
 
Kewl, I'll wire it into the tail light then. This thing only uses 8 led's so it doesn't need a whopping amount of power to run a relay.

I take it the tail light wire is constantly powered yes?
I wouldn't want it coming on only when I hit the brake.

In case you were wondering...yes, I do turn my lights off on the bike until I replace the charging system this saturday.

:)
Dm of mD
 
Make sure you get the tail light wire, not the brake light wire. It will be on whenever your lights are on, which should be all the time.
 
See the above posts.
It is a Voltmeter that displays the charge of your system in bright LEDs.


Dm of mD
 
lhanscom said:
Make sure you get the tail light wire, not the brake light wire. It will be on whenever your lights are on, which should be all the time.
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Hmmm...tail wire. Given the multitude of wires in the GS and the lack of a clymer manual onn my part...I'll just wire it into one of the upper fuses.

Dm of mD
 
Hi :lol:

I have a little Voltmeter made off 3 leds (red Yellow Green)
I put it inside the black idiot light box between the the clocks.
Made it on veroboard,2transistors-2zenerdiodes-3diodes-5resistors.

Einar

GS1000GLx
 
question

question

Hi Einar,
Is there a possability that the amount of led's could be increased to say....5-6 so you could have 12.5, 13, 13.5......voltage indicated. I don't think 3 would give you a big enough range....Mike
 
Hi :lol:

The volt indicator:Red only up to 12.0 Volt (draining)
Then Yellow starts and at 12.5 only Yellow Red is off.
Then Green starts and at 13.0 Only green , Yellow is off . (charging)
This means that at idle with all lights on I got a Yellow or Yellow and Green
Led.When driving I always got Green Led
To me this work ok,But it could been a 4. LED that started at 14.v indicating overcharging

Einar
GS1000GLx
NMCU
Senior MC Norge V-Agder
 
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