Hondaman, yes ,K6 wiring is not a work of art! I finally got the running lights going and everything else working. Final connection was the brown wire to the brown with white stripe. Go figure.
It would have been nice if Honda gave us about an inch more wire at the connections.
Cliff.
Cliff & John,et.al. I beg to differ, probably equivalent to the ravaged minds of some artists who went a bit nuts after a disease was turning their brains to Swiss cheese, kinda like Branden’s brain or Van Gough cutting off his own ear…
Seen Picasso later works? That I think is a warped mind
Maybe the electrical guy had way too much sake every night after work the week he put together that masterpiece…
Electrons find a way to create paths not intended when grounds are not solid and grounds can look fine but hide nastiness.
Friend is requiring a trailer and claimws he is trying to ohm a rereading on the frame inches away from each other and he is connecting to bare metal but meter wont show him a treading. Getting infinity. Told him he is nano at bare metal…
Tails lamps arent working, told him then run a ground wire to them if the trailer is having that much oxidation or ground issues if you are getting enough voltage at the tail lamps. Clean your connectionas. PO had bodged up the wiring in multiple half assed repairs. Told him it was best to rewire with heavy gauge wiring because of voltage loss in wire on a 25-30ft car hauler open trailer.
His responsee complained of the cost of a 100 ft spool of heavy gauge wire… wanna be safe or cheap out. At least it is low power draw using led lights.
It is insane the voltage drop in wire running over 10 ft…arent you glad our bikes aren’t long requiring pounds of copper?
Volvo 240s taught me grounds corrode as do fuse boxes even looking fine…went you step on the brakes and the warning lights flash in center console or other momentary funkinessyou know you are behind on your biannual or annual ground and fuse box clean up. Leaned how to reach down and remove fuse panel quarter turn fastener, pull cover then spoon the open ceramic/plastic open fuse element between the brass contacts in the fuse box. If I nearly burned my finger it was either a 20A fuse or a fuse with the ground issue. So, I would count down from the top to identify the hot fuses.
But they duid a decent job using fuses on Most circuits carrying 5A or more without having lots of functions on a single circuit.
Maybe an electrical problem troubleshooting manual market is out there for vintage bikes…
But, many do not want to pay for information these days, expecting everything for free…
Even if you spent hundreds of hours developing something.
David
