Alan1963
Registered user
OK, so I've just bought back a nice set of PIAA 004XT lights from my trip to the US - great value. Mounted them to my R1200RT on some dinky little brackets also from the US.
http://www.cyclegadgets.com/Products/LightKits/detail.asp?bike=R12RT&kit=EZ-R1200RT
Usual high quality PIAA stuff, and the brackets were easy to mount too. All set up and working in a morning with just the one connection into the wiring loom.
But I have a problem that is really confusing me.
Wired exactly as PIAA suggest ~ 3 wires to connect. Main power to the relay (from the battery (+), earthed to the battery (-) and the last wire (that goes to the PIAA switch) from an ignition controlled live feed so the lights go off with the engine or iginition.
So I get the multi-meter out and check the wires on the back of one of the dipped lights ~ sure enough 0V with the ignition off, 12+V once you fire the engine. So I'm tapped into that, but now the PIAAs are on all the time, unless I switch them off.
I could probably take the main power off the battery and find another ignition controlled live, but I'd really like to understand why this isn't working. I did a similar installation on my GS and had no problems at all. And I simply don't understand why, when the feed comes from the back of the dipped beam, which goes on and off with the engine, why the PIAAs aren't doing the same thing?
All suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks, Alan.
http://www.cyclegadgets.com/Products/LightKits/detail.asp?bike=R12RT&kit=EZ-R1200RT
Usual high quality PIAA stuff, and the brackets were easy to mount too. All set up and working in a morning with just the one connection into the wiring loom.
But I have a problem that is really confusing me.
Wired exactly as PIAA suggest ~ 3 wires to connect. Main power to the relay (from the battery (+), earthed to the battery (-) and the last wire (that goes to the PIAA switch) from an ignition controlled live feed so the lights go off with the engine or iginition.
So I get the multi-meter out and check the wires on the back of one of the dipped lights ~ sure enough 0V with the ignition off, 12+V once you fire the engine. So I'm tapped into that, but now the PIAAs are on all the time, unless I switch them off.
I could probably take the main power off the battery and find another ignition controlled live, but I'd really like to understand why this isn't working. I did a similar installation on my GS and had no problems at all. And I simply don't understand why, when the feed comes from the back of the dipped beam, which goes on and off with the engine, why the PIAAs aren't doing the same thing?
All suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks, Alan.