Trying to work out a previous owner's wiring (or my own stupidity!)

[magicmonkey]

Hmmm.... is there a clutch switch for in gear? Guess you'll have it in 'N' anyway. How about the side stand switch? I'm not even sure there is one but good to check. I'm starting to feel your frustration now

There isn't a side stand switch and believe it or not, I have tried various silly things like moving through all the gears (with clutch in of course) to change the lights on the gear selector (they seem to be wired into the normal light circuit from what I can tell and I though that a change on the circuit might have unexpected results, it didn't!) Tried with and without indicators and any other silly electrical changes I could make!

Yeah, calm might well be a good idea, in fact, I think I'm going to take a break for 30 minutes and grab a coffee before I explode!!

[magicmonkey]

fixed it!!!!!!!

Turns out that the switches worked fine once I took them off the bars, when the assembly was tightened uo against the bars the 2 wires to the kill switch were being squished together and must have shorted. I'll be patching them up with a bit of insulating tape in a bit and it'll be right as rain

Thanks for the help guys, I probably would have given up and taken it to the shop by now without it

[CookMySock]

fixed it!!!!!!!

Turns out that the switches worked fine once I took them off the bars, when the assembly was tightened uo against the bars the 2 wires to the kill switch were being squished together and must have shorted.

Well done. That sort of fault is particularly frustrating, which is when regular breaks are really important.

Keep it up!
Steve

[steve_t]

Awesome! And nice work awayatc!

[quickbuck]

fixed it!!!!!!!

Turns out that the switches worked fine once I took them off the bars, when the assembly was tightened uo against the bars the 2 wires to the kill switch were being squished together and must have shorted.

I just found this thread, and was going to say that..... Honest.

Well, actually no.... I wasn't, but suspected it would be simple.

The thing to remember with Kill switches generally speaking is they are designed to work by earthing out. ie make a circuit to kill the engine.
The thing about Suzukis (doesn't sound like the GN though) is that the kill switch kills everything...so the motor won't even turn over.... Can be good... can be a pain.

[magicmonkey]

I just found this thread, and was going to say that..... Honest.

Well, actually no.... I wasn't, but suspected it would be simple.

The thing to remember with Kill switches generally speaking is they are designed to work by earthing out. ie make a circuit to kill the engine.
The thing about Suzukis (doesn't sound like the GN though) is that the kill switch kills everything...so the motor won't even turn over.... Can be good... can be a pain.

well, after I got the sheath off the wires and checked for shorts it turned out that there weren't any, the previous owner had replaced the unit with one which had a dodgy kill switch; I unscrewed it from the housing and the whole switch fell to peices! The actaul fix was to clean the contact block and put the kill switch back together using a cable tie to keep it in place

Works fine now but I'm on the look out for a unit in decent condition as the previous replacement had clearly had a bit too much fun with the tarmac, damned trade me!!!

But yes, something simple and frustrating. Still I've learned something so it's all good