Hi guys, I recently had a R/R burn out & cook the battery on a longish trip which could of easily been prevented with a simple voltmeter, well they arrived today, without instructions. Now as I understand it, the negative can be earthed anywhere like a frame nut/bolt yes? But where should the positive wire go? I only want it on when the bike is of course so im assuming its the ignition yes? If so there is 7 wires in the ignition, 2 always have power,2 never have power, & the other 3 have power under ignition, would any of those 3 be ok to connect to? Hopefully its yes to all.cheers
Yeah sound's right. Run the earth wire to a decent mounting point, bare metal with a smear of dielectric grease on it. Is the brown the + power all the time and white is the switched + power coming off the ignition switch ? The other switched power wire's off the ignition might be lighting etc so may show a slightly lower voltage when the ignition is on A charged battery should be reading above 12.6v minimum
The 2 white wires always have current, the blue and red on the right never have current, which leaves the yellow orange and brown as the switched wires, so should I not use the wire that runs the lighting?
I just looked at the wiring diagram again, running the red off the brown should be ok as it's before the light's
Cheers mate, the brown it is then. How and where along the wire would you connect up? Can it be soldered straight to the ignition?
I would tap into the wiring either off the lead coming from the switch, or off the main harness if your meter wiring is long enough You can get a crimp on terminal that will crimp onto the brown wire, then you can plug in a male spade terminal on the end of you voltmeter lead That way you can disconnect it easily if you need to at some stage Or you could strip back the insulation off the wire and solder on a short wire lead with a female crimp on terminal and insulate where you stripped it
These little voltmeter's look good too, $5.60 delivered and are waterproof http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/17222750...49&var=471052877236&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Yeah I had too heat shrink my voltmeter cause there was no backing on it, can you get those crimp on terminals from supercheap or autobarn
I use the Narva one's, they're called Ezy Tap terminal's Supercheap have their home brand one's - http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/Pr...-Take-Off-Blue-6-Pack/299028?menuFrom=1021623 And Autobarn sell the Narva one's (top 2x) - https://www.autobarn.com.au/narva-wire-tap-connectors-3mm-4mm-56060bl Repco probably have them as well
I've been using one of those little volt meters on my Dominator for years. Be aware that they are not waterproof, but it comes back to life after it dries out again.
Hi Sharky, Bit late for me to chime into this thread, but I run my voltmeters straight off the battery with a simple on/off switch in one of the wires. That makes it easy for me to see what the battery is doing if the engine is off. They don't draw much current...I know because I accidentally forgot to turn one off once and 3 days later the battery still had enough charge to do the job. Cheers Frank
Sharky, I tend to tape them to where ever I can (handle bars, other instruments etc), so they don't exactly look the best but they work fine.
