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Oil pressure light and various other woes

Started by judokia, March 07, 2009, 04:40:54 AM

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judokia

last week my neutral light bulb blew,not a problem temporary swapped high beam bulb and then ordered replacement LED bulbs.

Caution ! don't be stupid like me and leave the high beam bulb holder empty as this causes a short and with blow the main fuse as i discovered when i knock the switch when leaving the bike and when i returned and tried to start there was nothing. I quickly found the fuse and replaced every thing was fine as i had already flicked the switch to low beam. I didn't realise the fault i had caused until i changed the headlight bulb to Xeon and when to test sure enough the fuse blew again. Thats when i dawned on me what i had done. Changed the fuse fitting LED bulb in  holder everything working and nice bright indicator. Great lets change the rest. Neutral changed no problem. Indicators only work in one direction i now realise it is the wrong type and i will have to get another. Pulled the oil pressure bulb out and went to fit the LED no light,put the original bulb back no light,pulled the bulb from the flasher indicator still no light. I no the bulb is OK as it works in the other holders. The light had been working fine until i went to change the bulb. Is this light fused and if so where is the fuse. I have a 2005 gs500f by the way.

Hope yous can help

Cheers

the mole

#1
A single LED panel light will only work one way for the fleashers because an LED is a Light Emitting Diode. Diodes only pass current one way. You need to use the standard bulb or two LEDs, wired in opposite directions. One will work for left, the other for right. Don't know why you're having trouble with the oil light, it should work OK. Maybe while you were fiddling you shorted the wire to earth and fried the oil pressure sender? AFAIK its not seperately fused.

bill14224

You already found the only fuse your bike has, and the oil pressure indicator gets power from the same orange wire that powers the neutral light, so you have an open connection in the socket.  Before you re-insert the bulb, bend the little wires out a little so it'll make a better connection.
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judokia

Thanks guys just removed pulse generator cover and  ground wirng to chassis and LED now lighting up. So new pressure switch required. Will do this at next week when i do an oil and filter change.

As for the indicator warning light i am sure that i saw on the wiki somewhere that there is an LED that will work as i would love this lamop to be as bright as possilbe. May a time i've be unaware of my signal not being cancelled.

Thanks again for your helpful suggestions.

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