Aux light problem

[denny]

Spent the entire day riding in the rain yesterday, which I think resulted in my aux lights going doolalee. So I've got 2 micro de spots & 2 ff50's. I always ride with the de's on & ocassionally flick the spots on. Yesterday evening I switched the de's on & the spots came on and stayed on. I say stayed on as somtimes they would just flick on & off, which i was told was something to do with the relays & is normal. Both sets of lights have their own switch & there are 2 relays, not sure how it's all wired up though.

Any ideas where to start looking before I start removing unecesary bits & pieces?

Ta D

 

[(RIP) DitchWater]

Spent the entire day riding in the rain yesterday, which I think resulted in my aux lights going doolalee. So I've got 2 micro de spots & 2 ff50's. I always ride with the de's on & ocassionally flick the spots on. Yesterday evening I switched the de's on & the spots came on and stayed on. I say stayed on as somtimes they would just flick on & off, which i was told was something to do with the relays & is normal. Both sets of lights have their own switch & there are 2 relays, not sure how it's all wired up though.

Any ideas where to start looking before I start removing unecesary bits & pieces?

Ta D

Try swapping the relays over see what happens.

 

[John Armstrong]

If the lights use their own dedicated switch, ie not autoswitched, then I look at trying to dry out that switch / giving it a blast with some WD40 or equivalent.

 

[denny]

Hi guys, tried both ideas, neither worked. I could get the DE's or FF's only to work by disconnecting a wire from a relay(no idea which though). Would new relays solve this annoying fault?

Also, I noticed that whoever did the wiring wired the earth to the handguard clamp bolt...sound ok?

 

[(RIP) DitchWater]

Did you try a single relay only for either system check and then tried the other relay? This may isolate a sticky relay.

Never the less, the wiring may use common power (12V fused, hopefully), a common ground (or earth, and not that clever to be connected to the handguard clamp) and separate triggers to each relay from your switches.

Try removing each relay one at a time and see how the lights perfom: By removing a relay you are disconnecting the lights from their power supply and will help you determine which circuit is causing your fault.