F%$k you Wapping!! I've done loads on my RD since getting it last summer (including removing, stripping and rebuilding my gearbox/engine, brakes, master cylinder and calipers, stripped of all the panels for complete respray - basically rebuilt the bike from knowing nothing - I've learnt by asking for help when needed). So don't tell me what I can't or what I shouldn't do.
I couldn't see any obvious leads on my GS to tap into despite looking at the owners manual and Autocom instructions. And as many seem to have Autocoms, this was a good place to ask for advise. Thought this was a place where we all help each other out rather than wasting time slagging others off when questions are asked - is this a GS snobs club? if so I've come to the wrong place!!
Jeeze, for the time it takes you to type sarcastically you could write something constructive. If you can't offer anything constructive please don't reply to ANY of my posts in future - that goes to any other tosser who's of similar ilk!
If you had looked at the Owner's manual and / or the Autocom instructions you would have learned:
(a) Where the accessory socket was. You have had the bike for months.
(b) That there was no conventional fusebox. Ditto.
(c) Where the sub-fuses for the auxiliary lights lived.
(d) The suggested easiest way to wire the Autocom in.
You say you want to do things for yourself. That's not true. What really want is for other people to do everything for you, except wield the screwdriver. Look at your threads, every one of them is take, take, take, not one bit of contribution or anything of interest or assistance to anyone but yourself.
You have rebuilt gear boxes, brakes, master cylinders. Why not contribute towards some of the threads where other people ask for help? Surely when doing all the work you gleaned some sort of basic mechanical aptitude? Why then do you struggle with everything? Is it because you spend so long enquiring you have actually forgotten what it is you wanted to do?
Surely it's easy to work out that to get switched power to an electrical item you need to find a switched live feed? There are loads of posts, threads and websites on the subject, but you couldn't find one? Why? Apparently because you used the wrong word to search or you didn't look.
Think for yourself. What are you trying to do? What is live with the ignition?
The lighting circuit, you can't turn driving lights off, except with the ignition switch. Which wire is easy to trace? The rear light. Don't use the brake light feed, that will only power when you brake. Which of the wires? Disconnect one and find out what no longer works. What else is switched live? The accessory socket, under the seat, surely you know it's there? Which is the live wire? The one that lights a simple bulb - make a circuit tester - or flicks a volt meter.
I will reply to all and any of your questions in any style I like. You set yourself up for a pisstake. You like pictures, so you get a picture of the plug some kind soul suggested to ease your woes, it being a farly safe bet you didn't know (or couldn't imagine) what one was. Where to get one from? Why didn't you take the name, 90 degree powerlet plug, and Google it to find out where to get one from? No, it's easier to let somebody else do it for you.
