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Post by hopwheels on Feb 13, 2007 11:18:42 GMT -5
In my haste to kick my '79 into starting last night after the small taste of ignition... I didn't wire the fuse back into the pos lead on the battery eliminator (shows how much faith I had that it would start!). After starting it up a second time I noticed no indicator lights or headlamp working. I checked all the connectors and nothing's burnt, and they're all secured. What did I muck up?
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Post by miker on Feb 14, 2007 10:19:20 GMT -5
See if the bulbs are burnt out (i.e. multimeter shows infinite resistance). If so, probably the voltage went too high for them. Seems like the regulator shouldn't allow that...
miker
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Post by hopwheels on Feb 14, 2007 10:52:02 GMT -5
Thanks Mike. If I killed all the bulbs that will blow  . Haven't opened up the daytona lights to see what bulbs they take. Sounds like you're thinkng a bad or faulty voltage regulator? |
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Post by miker on Feb 15, 2007 9:51:46 GMT -5
Faulty regulator would do it, but I was more thinking of wiring issues since you mention not having replaced the fuse etc. - did you change wiring? Probably time to start measuring voltages here and there - kind of hard to deal with this in a batteryless system I suppose.
miker
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Post by hopwheels on Feb 16, 2007 21:22:38 GMT -5
So, ran the bike for a little while today and guess what? All the lights and horn worked. Does the battery eliminator (capacitor) need to store up power or something? Not sure why it would work all of a sudden. All lights got brighter/dimmer with the revs. Common with bat-pac?
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. Haven't opened up the daytona lights to see what bulbs they take. Sounds like you're thinkng a bad or faulty voltage regulator?