How to hook up an hour meter?

**Jay GTI** · 23rd March 2011, 18:20

Originally Posted by Crisis management

Shouldn't...... The wire around the sparkplug from the hourmeter is simply picking up the spark / impulse to generate a recording on the hourmeter.

Use Google to research your hour meter and there may be a means of testing it for operation.

PS. your photo last week was impressive, keep it up!

Yeah it works on the principle of induction, certainly a wrap of insulation tape won't stop it from working... however a shielded plug lead, as part of a low-noise/noise-suppressed ignition system, would.

**CRF119** · 23rd March 2011, 19:08

I think wrapping around the plug lead is a waste of time. It gets in the way looks untidy and can stop working at times with water etc. I hard wire mine into the kill switch loom. No chance of bad connection looks tidy and doesn't get in the way.

**D3ALN** · 23rd March 2011, 21:56

how do i do that on my 03 wr250f?

**CRF119** · 29th March 2011, 15:41

Depends on the wiring loom and type of hour meter.

2 or single wire hour meter?

**D3ALN** · 29th March 2011, 16:17

single cheers

**CRF119** · 29th March 2011, 18:12

Mine is a 2 wire job and i have wired the wire that is normally meant to be wrapped around the plug lead into the live side of the kill switch and the ground to the frame.

For you id try unplugging your kill switch and just strip a little bit of wire off the hour meter wire and twist it around it. The meter should start to flash or come on depending on what brand meter it is. It it works the wire it in for good. If not then its back to the old way. It should work i am sure i have done a single wire one like that before but many years ago.

Good luck let me no how it goes

**D3ALN** · 29th March 2011, 18:49

at the moment its coming on just the hours arnt clicking. will have a look at what you suggested this week whenI go out to do my after trail ride maintenance.
Will using a test light find the live side?

**CRF119** · 30th March 2011, 20:43

Unsure, i dought it would have enough current to make it glow. use a multi meter.

If it has an hourglass in the side it should flash when running

**D3ALN** · 30th March 2011, 21:00

It has the hour glass how do you mean flash have wired up to the black white wire in the kill switch.

**D3ALN** · 31st March 2011, 19:42

Still dont know if its working yet? I havent ridden it for an hour yet but when I put my test light on the black and white cord with the hourmeter hooked up to and the bike died

**CRF119** · 1st April 2011, 18:31

Yea at least you got the right wire then. Your test light is doing the same as the kill switch. completing the loop to ground. If your hour meter still isn't working hooked to that then u may have to go back to the old spark plug way or consider it maybe faulty and trade up to a Motominder type with 2 wires.