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Liquid-Darkness
Ok Pete, you need to have good working bulbs on and connected in the front and rear to get the lights working. Make sure your AC regulator is between the rear lights and your power source. You can check your Alternater lighting coil with a good mulit-reader. Its the white cliped plug where your engine connects to the wireing harness near the carburetor. Check the plug that leads into the engine. Get your self a multi-meter and set its range to the lowest ohm setting. Put your red on the VMA and your black on your COM ground. Tap the red and black metal sharp tips to create a current, then quickly toutch the black on green and the red on the yellow. You should get your lighting coil reading. The resistance should be between 0.1 and 1.0 u.
You can also set your multi-reader's range to the sound option and check your wireing continuity. If it beeps, the wires are not broken and are intact. If there is no beep, there might be a damaged wire somewhere.
AC= alternating current
DC= direct current
These bikes are DC because they create their power and use it, like a battery. The power does not come and go, like AC power in a house for example.
To check your thumb switches, set your mulit-reader to the same beeping range setting for continuity checks. Unplug your thumb switch plug from the wireing harness. The on/off button for lights checks as follows:
toutch the black tip to the green wire, and the red tip to the white/black wire. With those toutching, click on your lights power switch. Your multi-reader should beep if there is good continuity.
The dimmer switch/high-low beams is the same method and readings are as follows:
High beams should beep with the red tip toutching the brown wire and the black tip toutching the blue wire.
Low beams should beep with the red tip toutching the brown wire and the black tip toutching the white wire.
brown= positive
green=ground
blue=ground
white=ground
Your AC regulator should read as follows:
Resistance should read right at 100k ohm's. Set your range to 200k on the green ohm setting.
Toutch your black tip to the green wire, and toutch your red tip to your white wire. Remember to tap the red and black tips togeather on your mulit reader quickly before you take your reading. This creates a current. Good luck dude.
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