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Online kwackboy

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Re: Electric death
« Reply #40 on: July 10, 2018, 21:54:00 »
Ah .. human error. Triumph electrics are bullet proof ..  :shy:.  lol

Well done for finding the issue . You are now officially this forums triumph expert ..  :clap:

Who's the previous owner  :roll: ..  :grin:

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Re: Electric death
« Reply #41 on: July 10, 2018, 22:14:20 »
Oi, that Tiger had fitted/working auxilliary lights when it left me so the wires are something else, I'm not in the habit of leaving wires floating around,.  :icon_batterup:

Also, it has taken how many years to develop into a fault?
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Re: Electric death
« Reply #42 on: July 10, 2018, 23:54:47 »
Possibly from when you did the interesting dressing job for the bike  :whistle:

Seriously Tusker glad it's fixed as I was down to one coffee and one ice cream  :thumb:
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Re: Electric death
« Reply #43 on: July 11, 2018, 07:30:08 »
Did I attach any blame to your good self Mr FR :icon_no: I replaced your lights with my current lights and wired them through from an ignition live. my wiring left your wiring redundant. I decided not to remove your wiring so I taped them up and tucked them into the dash. Time and weather has done the rest. The tape has gone and the wires were fluttering and touching occasionally !! hence the intermittent fault.  :shy:....    Can you remember ? did you connect your lights into the headlight wiring ?    I may now decide to strip them out .. I'm in a :fix: mood
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Re: Electric death
« Reply #44 on: July 11, 2018, 10:03:36 »
So the technical headlines I took from that are;

1. I am a genius
2. You are a clown

 lol

Glad it was something simple, even if it was frustrating.
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Re: Electric death
« Reply #45 on: July 11, 2018, 10:14:21 »
I can't remember how I wired them (or if I did). Sorry.
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Re: Electric death
« Reply #46 on: July 11, 2018, 16:28:04 »
Loose wires will have TallPaul bothering the Samaritans again, you know what he's like. :dl_hyperhysteria:
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Re: Electric death
« Reply #47 on: July 11, 2018, 16:43:52 »
At least you've,  erm, nailed it. I ran all my switch wires through the bars on my vn15, 9 on one side and about 6 on the other. Extended, joined, sheathed, all invisible. Went to Liverpool, bike cutting out & back in on the M62, gouts of flame and cannonfire out of the open pipes. Got there, dismantled headlight, switches, nothing visibly wrong. Right, disconnect battery and start  digging in. Battery negative was loose, I'd forgotten to tighten it up after re routing the wires!
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Re: Electric death
« Reply #48 on: July 11, 2018, 16:50:11 »
just human fallibility I'm afraid  :old:  no I mean it, I am afraid  lol
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