1150 Adventure Electrickery Issues

[Robster]

So, the recent very wet weather seems to have taken it's toll on my hitherto trusty steed. I've had the 1150GSA for over 8 years now and have racked up 80k+ miles with only the "usual" issues.

After riding home in several particularly heavy downpours the other week, which saw me having to navigate a few large puddles on the road of 1.5 to 2 feet of standing water, my Foglights and both accessory sockets seem to have packed up, along with my hardwired Satnav which has been on the bike and working without issue almost as long as I've had the bike.

The Foglights are CREE LED's, wired in to the existing circuitry from the (massive and crap) OEM Fogs that were long ago broken off up a mountain somewhere in the Pyrenees... again, the LED replacements have been working flawlessly for years and years. I stripped back one side of the Foglight wiring and hooked it straight up to the battery and it lit right up.

The 2 accessory sockets are dead too – particularly annoying as I plug my Optimate in to the one down by the starter. I know the one up by the bars piggybacks off t'other one, but I'm guessing the issue is water ingresss elsewhere as there are multiple bits and bobs not working.

I've pulled, checked and replaced all the fuses and (sadly) there was no "smoking gun" in the form of a blown fuse as I was hoping for!

That little excercise pretty much accounts for my scope of knowledge in terms of the electrickery... anything else obvious I should be looking at?

 

[Deleted account 220427001]

use a multimeter check for broken wiring

 

[Steptoe]

Fuse 3 provides power to the accessory sockets.

But that's with standard wiring, yours could well be a bag of shite wired up with no method or reason.

 

[Grim Rider]

I would probably just strip out the wiring for the lights and start again - at least you will know what goes where and how it is supposed to work.

 

[Robster]

Thanks chaps.

Sounds like a bit of task then. I must admit, I was hoping for something along the lines of "Oh it'll be the secret fuse hidden behind that easy to reach panel" as opposed to requiring to pull the whole lot out and start again!

Nothing's ever that simple eh?!

 

[Robster]

Sooooo... little update on this. Spotlights, Accessory Sockets and Nav now functioning again.

I eventually found the time to whip off the cover down by the lower accessory socket where there lies a little nest of wiring and where I suspected the issue might be.

Straight away the problem was evident – all the connectors in there were pretty well corroded. There's a sort of "Y-Piece" cable that piggybacks from the lower socket up to the cockpit socket and, on inspection, that turned out to have detached itself from one side of the connector. Also, where the main wiring connector for the accessory sockets drops down from, presumably, the fusebox, there was another semi-detached wire.

So, a little head scratching later, the terminals were all cleaned up and I'd managed (don't ask how! ) to reattach the detached wires and, one blown fuse later, power was restored.

When I've got a little more time I need to whip the tank off and sort the cable wrap out as the majority of it from down in that are just disintegrated on touch – I'm not happy about "naked" wires down there!

 

[Grim Rider]

Best to sort out sooner than later - nothing worse than having problems on the road and thinking, wish I had spent a couple of hours sorting that out properly; from too much personal experience