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New switches. Hi- beam not working.
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I tried changing out the bulb but it's still not working. By not working I mean the high beam is really dim and the high beam light on the dash doesn't light up.
It was working when I first got everything installed but now I can get it to work correctly at all. Is it possible that the new switch can't handle the load of high beam and I need a relay?
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GPzMOD750 wrote:
It was working when I first got everything installed but now I can get it to work correctly at all. Is it possible that the new switch can't handle the load of high beam and I need a relay?
If it can't handle the load it's already burned out. Hopefully that's not the case.
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Where in the loom should I put the relay? Just before the headlight? Before the dash light? Will this mess up the reserve lighting system?
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I wired the headlight through 20A Mini relays. It worked the first 2 or 3 times I switched back and forth. After that no high beam. I swapped bulbs and relays same result. I can hear and feel the relays working but I have no clue what's going wrong.
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I had some of the wires mixed up. I had a long day yesterday and it dawned on me this morning that I might have put the wrong leads in to the wrong sockets.
Works great now!
Now all I have to do is fab up mounting points for everything and put it back together.
BTW. I got the micro relays and sockets from Cycle Terminal
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The relay set up isn't working now and I'm strangely getting continuity between the dedicated fuse and the high beam trigger wire with or without switch on. I have checked and double checked every wire in every way I can think of. The only thing i can think of is that fuse box is bad with a short between the spare circuit and the main circuit.
if I disconnect the relay circuit and plug a headlight into the original socket it works BUT my battery is low, under 9v right now because I'm having issues with my new R/R set up as well.
FML.
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I'm actually thinking this issue is caused by my other issue. I had it on the chager for a few minutes and I did the random, hope-and- see-if-anything-happens, fiddling around and the low beam started buzzing.
Working theory: my relays have a trip threshold of 10v or they ain't workin'.
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GPzMOD750 wrote: I'm saying.
I'm actually thinking this issue is caused by my other issue. I had it on the chager for a few minutes and I did the random, hope-and- see-if-anything-happens, fiddling around and the low beam started buzzing.
Working theory: my relays have a trip threshold of 10v or they ain't workin'.
Are the relays in the right way around?
www.kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/594313-csr1000-project-build
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CB500/4 (1972)*
KZ1000CSR (1981)
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TDM900 (2003)
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