I am very confused right now. I bought a Dyna S unit complete with coils to solve the ignition issue I was having on my 77 Goldwing. Problem I am having is with the power supply line that feeds the coils (black with white stripe)
Background. On the original wiring harness there is the black wire with white stripe that comes from the stop switch and ends with a double female bullet connector. The two coil power lines attach to the double bullet connector. Monday I started to work on setting the Dyna up . I noticed my double connector was looking suspect so I cut the wire back about 2 inches and crimped on a new double female bullet connector. I checked the lines voltage when I cut it (good) and I checked the connectors voltage after I crimped it in place (still good). both readings were showing a strong 13 volt reading.
The problem Flash forward one day. I install the rest of the Dyna stuff, all goes well. Went to time it and nothing. Could not get the test light to come on no matter how far I rotate it. I ran through all the power sources I could think of, then found that coil power wire was dead. Flat dead. No voltage at all. WTF? It had good voltage the night before. There is only about 6 inches of exposed wire from where it leaves the wiring harness, so I checked and no cracks or breaks, no cuts. Crimp on the connector is still very tight, good contact with the wire center. So I used the volt meter to check the wire closer to where it leaves the wiring harness, and its still completely dead. I checked the main fuses and all were good. I made sure the bike was set to on, nothing, there is just no power to that line. The stop switch is getting power and is transferring it to the other lines that come from it (got positive voltage readings from other wires that lead from the stop switch)
I am at a loss what could have happened over night that would cause a live wire to go dead. How could a wire with no load, and no physical stress at all suddenly just go dead? Did it ground somehow? I can't see how that's possible from overnight when nothing changed.
As for a solution- I suppose the way I see it I have a couple of options to handle it
1- Open up the stop switch and disconnect the coil power feed wire. Re-wire a new power feed wire from the same location and just leave the old wire hanging out in the harness- since the old wire would not be connected to anything anyways and it would be a royal pain in the @$& to fully remove it from the harness.
2- Wire a new coil power feed wire from another source. Like for instance the White wire with Green stripe that powers the turn signal flasher. I already have a splice in that line to power the Dyna. I just keep thinking that's probably a bad idea to add another, as how many wire splices running power can you really add to one line? Any other sources I could tap into to run a new line?
3- Anything else I am missing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AodHdQ4O_U
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AodHdQ4O_U[/video]
Background. On the original wiring harness there is the black wire with white stripe that comes from the stop switch and ends with a double female bullet connector. The two coil power lines attach to the double bullet connector. Monday I started to work on setting the Dyna up . I noticed my double connector was looking suspect so I cut the wire back about 2 inches and crimped on a new double female bullet connector. I checked the lines voltage when I cut it (good) and I checked the connectors voltage after I crimped it in place (still good). both readings were showing a strong 13 volt reading.
The problem Flash forward one day. I install the rest of the Dyna stuff, all goes well. Went to time it and nothing. Could not get the test light to come on no matter how far I rotate it. I ran through all the power sources I could think of, then found that coil power wire was dead. Flat dead. No voltage at all. WTF? It had good voltage the night before. There is only about 6 inches of exposed wire from where it leaves the wiring harness, so I checked and no cracks or breaks, no cuts. Crimp on the connector is still very tight, good contact with the wire center. So I used the volt meter to check the wire closer to where it leaves the wiring harness, and its still completely dead. I checked the main fuses and all were good. I made sure the bike was set to on, nothing, there is just no power to that line. The stop switch is getting power and is transferring it to the other lines that come from it (got positive voltage readings from other wires that lead from the stop switch)
I am at a loss what could have happened over night that would cause a live wire to go dead. How could a wire with no load, and no physical stress at all suddenly just go dead? Did it ground somehow? I can't see how that's possible from overnight when nothing changed.
As for a solution- I suppose the way I see it I have a couple of options to handle it
1- Open up the stop switch and disconnect the coil power feed wire. Re-wire a new power feed wire from the same location and just leave the old wire hanging out in the harness- since the old wire would not be connected to anything anyways and it would be a royal pain in the @$& to fully remove it from the harness.
2- Wire a new coil power feed wire from another source. Like for instance the White wire with Green stripe that powers the turn signal flasher. I already have a splice in that line to power the Dyna. I just keep thinking that's probably a bad idea to add another, as how many wire splices running power can you really add to one line? Any other sources I could tap into to run a new line?
3- Anything else I am missing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AodHdQ4O_U
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AodHdQ4O_U[/video]