gv550
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Another 2 days of riding, rain and miserably cold here in Ontario, but I did get 700 kms in and the cruise worked perfectly and no fault code. I'm confident the new front brake switch assembly has fixed my flashing cruise light problem.
My Super Tenere is now tucked away and in storage until April, Kawasaki is loaded and we're headed to Florida in the morning, for 5 months. I will enjoy the winter knowing S10 is fixed and ready to ride when we get home in the spring.
For anyone else experiencing a flashing amber cruise light, and cruise won't set, I recommend the first thing to do would be check for fault codes. If code 90 is stored ( brake switch failure) I'd say the odds are good that you really do need a new brake switch. In my case it was the front brake light switch that failed but the same code would be set if the rear switch had high resistance.
A couple things add confusion to this failure and its resolution, it was the cruise control that failed and set a fault code but there was nothing wrong with any of the switches involved with the cruise, a failed light switch was the culprit. And the light switches operate opposite to normal, they are both normally closed and hold a relay powered whenever the key is on. Activating either brake opens the switch to release the relay which then turns on the brake light. The onboard diagnostics has procedures to check every switch on the bike, and all the cruise and brake light switches passed the tests, even though one light switch had too much resistance to perform properly.
Thanks to Mebgardner and Crew Chief and others for the help and suggestions, this place rocks! ::015::
My Super Tenere is now tucked away and in storage until April, Kawasaki is loaded and we're headed to Florida in the morning, for 5 months. I will enjoy the winter knowing S10 is fixed and ready to ride when we get home in the spring.
For anyone else experiencing a flashing amber cruise light, and cruise won't set, I recommend the first thing to do would be check for fault codes. If code 90 is stored ( brake switch failure) I'd say the odds are good that you really do need a new brake switch. In my case it was the front brake light switch that failed but the same code would be set if the rear switch had high resistance.
A couple things add confusion to this failure and its resolution, it was the cruise control that failed and set a fault code but there was nothing wrong with any of the switches involved with the cruise, a failed light switch was the culprit. And the light switches operate opposite to normal, they are both normally closed and hold a relay powered whenever the key is on. Activating either brake opens the switch to release the relay which then turns on the brake light. The onboard diagnostics has procedures to check every switch on the bike, and all the cruise and brake light switches passed the tests, even though one light switch had too much resistance to perform properly.
Thanks to Mebgardner and Crew Chief and others for the help and suggestions, this place rocks! ::015::