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Offline Tinky

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Headlight stays off till engine running
« on: June 18, 2022, 19:06:10 »
Temp Wired till tomorrow my headlamp to switch on when bike running and not evrytime you turn ignition on.


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Re: Headlight stays off till engine running
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2022, 19:21:58 »
Private video. Or, I can't see owt 'cos the headlamps off.

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Re: Headlight stays off till engine running
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2022, 19:25:54 »
Is it working now ?

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Re: Headlight stays off till engine running
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2022, 20:23:21 »
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Re: Headlight stays off till engine running
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2022, 00:38:19 »
I must tell you that I an Not an auto electrician but I can get by.
So if anyone is intrested in doing this mod heres a wiring diagram of what I have done.
It will probably work on other models but you may have to find another trigger wire 86 to activate the relay. The trigger wire can only be live when engine is running and not when the ignition is turned on.
I did this by wiring the relay in first then I used a length of wire from 86 on the relay wrapped around a sharp prong which I could push into the connector at back of dash while engine was running once the headlight came on I then tried it with just the ignition. If the headlight comes on with the ignition then its no good so try again.

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Re: Headlight stays off till engine running
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2022, 08:42:54 »
I'm surprised this isn't standard on the later vstroms .. ?
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Re: Headlight stays off till engine running
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2022, 10:06:47 »
Why a 5 pin relay, or was it just that you happened to have one?

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Re: Headlight stays off till engine running
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2022, 10:23:11 »
I did have 4 pin relays as well but didn't know if I would need to wire it as normally closed instead of open depending on what I could use as the trigger any way all done now just putting dash back on