little help -- high beam wire

[Shovelhead]

can someone confirm the wire color and best location to tap it for wiring in a skene controller.
I've read where it's a pink wire. I've also read that some wire colors have changed on the newer models, This is a 2015 ES.

Is this it, and is this the best place to tap in to it? The other side of the connector has a yellow tied to the pink.

Thanks

 

[hojo in sc]

Sorry, I don't know which wire, but since you have the plug exposed, why not get (not costly) a 12 volt probe tester and find out for sure which wire is what your looking for...after you have connected the probe tester to a good ground, touch each of the wire spades with the high beam off, take note which is comes on, then turn the high beam on, and then see which spade becomes 'hot', then you can be certain which one is the real wire you want.

 

[Shovelhead]

Yeah I agree, testing with a meter or test light is fine but as far as I know and the one thing I do not like about this bike is you can't run the lights without the engine running. No different than when I was adjusting my headlights, the engine has to be running.
That's f'n stupid to me.
You ought to be able to have switched power for just these reasons.

I got wires disconnected and ain't in position to test electrical shit with the engine running.

I may try hooking battery back up and ignition on and see if I get voltage to that plug and toggle the high beam but I don't know.

I wired my own home and shop and another motorcycle but I'm low tech with this machine.

 

[Juan]

High Beam/low beam uses one and the same electrical wire. The difference between the high beam and low beam is that the low beam activates a shutter which partly shields the bulb (hence the clicking noise which you hear when you toggle between low and high beam).

 

[RIVA]

Read post by twin rider in following topic (Reply no. 12)
http://www.yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?topic=8134.0

 

[Shovelhead]

Tead post by twin rider in following topic (Reply no. 12)
http://www.yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?topic=8134.0

Read the last reply.

Don't believe twin rider has a 14/15 model.

Can anyone tell me if the wire I'm lookin for is the one in the photo I posted.

 

[Checkswrecks]

I have a 14 non-ES and used the pink, which was the trigger for the high beam.

 

[Shovelhead]

I have a 14 non-ES and used the pink, which was the trigger for the high beam.

perfect... ::008::

Thanks!

 

[WJBertrand]

Same for the '15 ES. When i installed my Flash2Pass I did notice though that the pink wire is powered when the lights are on low beam and powered off when on high beam. This is the reverse of what I expected.

 

[Shovelhead]

Same for the '15 ES. When i installed my Flash2Pass I did notice though that the pink wire is powered when the lights are on low beam and powered off when on high beam. This is the reverse of what I expected.

Well now you got me confused, more.
I need to tap the wire that's hot when high beams are ON.

It's pink, it's not pink, what color is it??? ::010::

I'm 1 bowl of Raisin Bran away from tapping the pink wire or jacking up my wire harness.

 

[WJBertrand]

It's pink, as in the posts above, but only hot when the low beam is on. Don't know if there's another wire that behaves oppositely.


-Jeff

 

[Shovelhead]

Thanks Jeff, got the light bar, fuse block and Skene installed and wired.
At the point of no return with pink dude.
We will know shortly if I'm lit, or if I open the bar early today.

I'll get lit either way. ::013::

 

[Shovelhead]

Worked like a Champ ::003::

Thanks ::008::

 

[Shovelhead]

::26::

 

[Checkswrecks]

Remember that the fender will come up 7.5" from full extension!

 

[Shovelhead]

Remember that the fender will come up 7.5" from full extension!

yessir, that did cross my mind. I'm 3/4" under that.
How common is it to bottom out the front end on these things? Reckon it only takes once don't it.

 

[Checkswrecks]

It depends on how much preload you have in the forks. That said, if you don't ever use that last 3/4" when hitting pot-holes or especially off-road or on gravel, my guess is that your forks are going to be too stiff.