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Hey folks,
Somewhat new here....lurked for some time now, but finally posting with a pretty specific question I'm pretty sure hasn't been covered before. Thanks for any help in advance....
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So, Just installed a new set of Symtec heated grips with a Heat-troller.
I've read a bit on how people power these things on FZ6's, and found it's usually done with a relay and 'switch power' from the headlights. I liked the way they advised to install the pair, so I did as they instructed. Used a relay, used the headlight circuit as the relay 'switch', ran power directly off of the battery through the realy, and tried both grounding out the relay to the front-fairing-frame, and to the neg battery terminal itself (not simultaneously).
When I say that I wired into the headlight circuit, I mean that I spliced the low power relay switch terminal (#85 of bosch style relay as seen in diagram) with the black and green low-beam wire of the wiring harness on the fairing side of the harness connector (not frame side...not that I think that matters...just being descriptive).
Both of those ground-hookups resulted in no headlight turning on.
No low-beam headlight I should say.
Yes I know that you need to have the bike running to get the lights to turn on. When the bike runs, the relay is 'switched' by that power wire I spliced and the heated grips heat (very well I might add)....all functions as it should including the high beam light on the right when the bike is running, except for the left low-beam.
Any ideas?
Dead bulb maybe? Haven't tried swapping that out for an old spare yet....
Something I'm not seeing?
I really have no idea here....not sure why splicing into this circuit just for a relay switch would kill the light.
I'm going to go out tomorrow and unhook the #85 'switch' wire from the low-beam power wire and see if the low-beams go back to working again....in the mean time, I'm wondering what ya'll think?
Hear is the schematic that Heat-troller gives you for this install....its actually really helpful. I'm very impressed by this....just simple enough for non-electrical-engineers, and just technical enough that it will scare away the layman who shouldn't be getting him/her-self into such a project! haha
http://www.warmnsafe.com/content/warmnsafefile/heated_grip_kit_instructions.pdf
Somewhat new here....lurked for some time now, but finally posting with a pretty specific question I'm pretty sure hasn't been covered before. Thanks for any help in advance....
-------------------------------------
So, Just installed a new set of Symtec heated grips with a Heat-troller.
I've read a bit on how people power these things on FZ6's, and found it's usually done with a relay and 'switch power' from the headlights. I liked the way they advised to install the pair, so I did as they instructed. Used a relay, used the headlight circuit as the relay 'switch', ran power directly off of the battery through the realy, and tried both grounding out the relay to the front-fairing-frame, and to the neg battery terminal itself (not simultaneously).
When I say that I wired into the headlight circuit, I mean that I spliced the low power relay switch terminal (#85 of bosch style relay as seen in diagram) with the black and green low-beam wire of the wiring harness on the fairing side of the harness connector (not frame side...not that I think that matters...just being descriptive).
Both of those ground-hookups resulted in no headlight turning on.
No low-beam headlight I should say.
Yes I know that you need to have the bike running to get the lights to turn on. When the bike runs, the relay is 'switched' by that power wire I spliced and the heated grips heat (very well I might add)....all functions as it should including the high beam light on the right when the bike is running, except for the left low-beam.
Any ideas?
Dead bulb maybe? Haven't tried swapping that out for an old spare yet....
Something I'm not seeing?
I really have no idea here....not sure why splicing into this circuit just for a relay switch would kill the light.
I'm going to go out tomorrow and unhook the #85 'switch' wire from the low-beam power wire and see if the low-beams go back to working again....in the mean time, I'm wondering what ya'll think?
Hear is the schematic that Heat-troller gives you for this install....its actually really helpful. I'm very impressed by this....just simple enough for non-electrical-engineers, and just technical enough that it will scare away the layman who shouldn't be getting him/her-self into such a project! haha
http://www.warmnsafe.com/content/warmnsafefile/heated_grip_kit_instructions.pdf
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