Wires in headlight pot

[chris6888]

I have 2 wires with nothing attached to them in my headlight pot. They are a brown wire that has power and 2 black with a white line on it that go into one connector. Just wondering what this might be attched to

[sedelen]

I have 2 wires with nothing attached to them in my headlight pot. They are a brown wire that has power and 2 black with a white line on it that go into one connector. Just wondering what this might be attched to

Believe that brown wire comes not hooked up for a possible add on accessory, and the two black with a white line are ground wires.
What bike is it?

[Nessism]

EDIT: Steve posted while I was typing.

Black/white is ground. Brown is accessory. This info is in the service manual. Basscliff has free manual downloads for most GS models.

[chris6888]

1983 katana 650

[Redman]

Ground wires. One of the first thing to understand.

I have 2 wires with nothing attached to them in my headlight pot. They are a brown wire that has power and 2 black with a white line on it that go into one connector. Just wondering what this might be attched to

To confirm what others have said:
- Black/White are ground wires.
- On the bikes I am familiar with (850G and 1100G); Brown is the tail light circuit



And further more:

When talk about black/white wires need to make a distintion between the black/white wires comming from the wiring harness as opposed to any black/white wire comming from some device, say, the headlight.
The black/white wires from the wiring harness should go thru the wiring harness and be connected to many more black/white wires in the wiring harnes and have one that comes out and is connected to frame (near battery box usally) and an other one come out and connect to battery negitive.
And any black/white wire from devices such as t/signals or headlight or instrument lights (hey!) should be plugged into a black/white wire from the wiring harness.


On the bikes I am familiar with (850G and 1100G); Brown is the tail light circuit, and often is a spare connector made available up front for future use. But if you use that for some accessory, say, a radio, keep in mind if you blow that fuse you also loose your tail light (and instrument lights, hey!). And, this also involves the park position of the key switch (but I probably have yammerd on too much already.)

You find a schematic yet?

Dave

[Sandy]

Black/white are ground and the brown is actually for the parking light/tail light circuit. It's used in some countries where parking lights on both ends are mandatory like England I think.