Big ? on Electrex Wiring

[suzukizone]

Hi, I have mounted a new Electrex stator & R/R on my '81 GS 850 G/

I had run the 3 yellow leads from the stator direct to the R/R.

I see in both the wiring diagram & on the bike that the WHITE/GREEN lead from the stator goes to "some rectangular object", makes an abrupt "U" turn, transmogrifies itself into a WHITE/RED lead and then returns to the R/R. At least that's what the 2 diagrams I have show. I have not dug into the wiring harness to follow it in real life.

Questions-

1. Can I just bypass this interesting routing & run that lead direct to the R/R without doing harm? (I have not run the bike nor even hooked up the battery yet)

2. Is that rectangular box just a plug of some sort or does that WHITE/GREEN lead perform some magic inside the little rectangle like connecting to something else in the system. Both diagrams show it as a longish rectangle with a line running horizontally across, by me it signifies a plug.

3. If nothing is really going on why on earth would they do this?

Thanks for your help, & thanks to Keith for the noble attempt to teach me basic electric theory. I do have more questions for you but have to get running here first.

Thanks![-o<

DH

[Boondocks]

1. Yes

2. It's just a connection. It serves no purpose. On bikes with a headlight switch, this stator lead is switched on and off with the headlight so that it charges the battery only when the light is on. On a bike with an "always on" headlight, this stator lead follow the same route to the headlight shell, but because there is no headlight switch it is always connected.

3. It's a totally unnecessary wiring scheme for bikes without a headlight switch. I can only speculate that it was easier and more economical for manufacturing inventory control to use a single wire harness designed to be usable with a headlight switch than to design a separate harness with a slight difference.

[suzukizone]

Big ? on Electrex wiring

Thanks Boondocks!:-D

[Hap Call]

1. Yes

2. It's just a connection. It serves no purpose. On bikes with a headlight switch, this stator lead is switched on and off with the headlight so that it charges the battery only when the light is on. On a bike with an "always on" headlight, this stator lead follow the same route to the headlight shell, but because there is no headlight switch it is always connected.

3. It's a totally unnecessary wiring scheme for bikes without a headlight switch. I can only speculate that it was easier and more economical for manufacturing inventory control to use a single wire harness designed to be usable with a headlight switch than to design a separate harness with a slight difference.

Excellent answer


Hap

[bwringer]

Clear, complete questions, clear complete answers.

I just LOVE it when the universe hums in perfect balance like this...

[gridrunner]

Aye, bin the headlamp loop, waste of time, I've been running an Electrex RR with the loop bypassed for a few months now with no problems (I've chucked the trickle charger in the cupboard).