Givi Trunk

[peterbaron]

I have a Givi V46 (I think it is) on a Honda Rack. Mounted like Jambo shows. I bought the light kit directly from Givi in North Carolina (they also have a place out West) and it came with all the spring connectors. I don't like them but the connector for the rack to box works well. I had trouble with the one for the box to lid for the lights. So much trouble I finally just hard wired that one. The Givi on my ST works just as Givi designed it though. I will say I HATE those connectors. They are difficult to work with.

The lights themselves are LED. Each side on mine consists of an LED panel that has the LEDs wired in 2 groups with each group fused with a small surface mount fuse. So if one group of LEDs pops a fuse you still have at least half of the lights on that side.

That happened to me. The bad thing is that you cannot buy a Light by itself. You have to buy a new kit.

I wired mine as brake lights but there can be other options that they don't mention but the LED card is wired for.

Funny story. Being a tech and working with techs, I took the bad card in to work. One of the techs grabbed it and said he was going to figure out what was wrong. I said one of the LEDs is shorted and the fuse for that bank popped. Not good enough for him. So he jumpers the fuse and hooks up the card to a bench power supply, turns it on and a WHOLE LOT of magic smoke appeared. Burned the card up! Jeez dude, that blown fuse should have told you something. Maybe you had to be there but it was funny.

Lol... we had a guy in our shop, who used to use needle nose pliers to check for a circuit short.
He inserted pliers in place of a fuse and was checking where the circuit was smoking...making harness a fusible link...and resulting in burnt harness replacement..

He earned a nick name of mechanico-electrico and after two tests, we replaced him permanently!!