09-08-2014, 12:04 AM
Copied from the UK Forum....
Thanks for that fellas. Ridem thats great. I know that it would be un-usual for the wires to switch colour.. but it looks like they do on my bike.
I striped the new indicators from White House to check that they weren't shorting somewhere and checked all the cabling. No shorts and all good.
So, I took a risk and switched the polarity of the tails I'd made to the new indicators. The White House Indicators come with short tails and bullet connectors, not hard wired, long tails with the Honda connector on, like the stock indicators.
I had to chop the long tails off the original indicators and fit some in-line connectors, to use with the WH Ind.
That meant I could just switch the Polarity around at that end.
They worked.
Which means, as far as I can work out. My 2014EX was wired incorrectly at the factory.
I went back to the original indicators and stripped them. They are wired correctly. Green - Ground and Orange - Live and Blue - Live.
That makes me think the loom is wired wrong and they flipped the colours in the connector under the seat to make the Ind. work.
That seems very odd to me and I'm going to go back and check it now. I left it late last night and I'm just having a cup of tea and a think about it.
Worth having a check on a few other machines tho.
I'll report back after another look this morn.
Electrics is not my forte, so if I'm being a dunce, please feel free to correct me. I may be missing something....
ta
Kev
I'll continue this on the UK forum, save doing it twice...
Here:
http://www.cb1100.co.uk/index.php/topic,437.6.html
ta
Kev
Thanks for that fellas. Ridem thats great. I know that it would be un-usual for the wires to switch colour.. but it looks like they do on my bike.
I striped the new indicators from White House to check that they weren't shorting somewhere and checked all the cabling. No shorts and all good.
So, I took a risk and switched the polarity of the tails I'd made to the new indicators. The White House Indicators come with short tails and bullet connectors, not hard wired, long tails with the Honda connector on, like the stock indicators.
I had to chop the long tails off the original indicators and fit some in-line connectors, to use with the WH Ind.
That meant I could just switch the Polarity around at that end.
They worked.
Which means, as far as I can work out. My 2014EX was wired incorrectly at the factory.
I went back to the original indicators and stripped them. They are wired correctly. Green - Ground and Orange - Live and Blue - Live.
That makes me think the loom is wired wrong and they flipped the colours in the connector under the seat to make the Ind. work.
That seems very odd to me and I'm going to go back and check it now. I left it late last night and I'm just having a cup of tea and a think about it.
Worth having a check on a few other machines tho.
I'll report back after another look this morn.
Electrics is not my forte, so if I'm being a dunce, please feel free to correct me. I may be missing something....
ta
Kev
I'll continue this on the UK forum, save doing it twice...
Here:
http://www.cb1100.co.uk/index.php/topic,437.6.html
ta
Kev