the_fbi
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| posted on 11/12/06 at 08:48 PM |
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Quick electrical weirdness.
I've not thought about this yet, but figured I'd get it down in writing for others thoughts till I look at it again.
Wiring was almost complete apart from 4 wires.
1 was the rev counter, yellow/green.
The other 3 were all from the single 3 pin connector. Low oil pressure switch, neutral and CTS.
Wired up those three, connected up battery and dash loom to notice that the low oil pressure light was on, all the time, irrespective of ignition
switch.
Rest of the wiring works fine, apart from when I turn on the sidelights, the sidelight fuse goes. Headlight and mainbeam are fine, but then they would
be.
Removed CTS and one of the others (yes I know I should have noted which) and it still blew the fuse.
Removed the last 2 and its all fine again.
So, given that the low oil pressure light was on, even without the ignition being on I'm thinking thats the one causig the problem.
That said, looking at the blade wiring diagram the rev counter feed comes from the CDI (sensible!) yet the one I'm using was in the engine
loom......
I need to go double check the colours and what goes where.
Seeing as I've just directly run the wire from the low oil pressure switch to the dash light I can't see why its on, as the dash (Acewell)
is off with the ignition off.
Its all too odd for my head today.
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mackei23b
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| posted on 12/12/06 at 09:46 AM |
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Well as ever there are a few options here:
As you have 2 problems and if everything else works one potential mistake in the wiring would give this:
Have you wired the sidelight +12V to the oil pressure light and the sidelight to the oil pressure switch, this combination could leave the oil
pressure light on all the time and blow the sidelight switch which is what you describe. By no means the final answer but worth look at first.
If this is not the case it sounds like you have a constant +12V supply to the Acewell if you are saying that the oil pressure light is on all the time
and is correctly wired. I'd check with a meter, or failing that a test lamp and test all the wires into the Acewell to see if you can find where
the +12V is coming from.
Hope this is helpful for a starter for 10, let me know how you get on.
Cheers
Ian
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the_fbi
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| posted on 12/12/06 at 01:26 PM |
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Turns out the only problem was that I'd wired up the switched live for one side of the Acewell to a perm live, hence why the low oil pressure
light was always on. (also the neutral would have been on but I'd not wired that up after all).
Fixed this to a switched live and all is well.
Clearly this wouldn't have created the sidelight issue so I must have had a brain fart yesterday with the wiring, but its all OK this morning
with the correct wires in the correct places.
Thanks for the thoughts Ian.
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mackei23b
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| posted on 12/12/06 at 09:54 PM |
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Good to here all is well!
Cheers
Ian
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