Head Light relay Help!

[Rickrod3]

thanks again Randy

Got it working

Latch and all

Rick

[Rickrod3]

alas yes ac and dc .... no voltage ..... 12.46 on red though

most schematics i have point to the secret existence of a diode somewhere in my harness

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Mine does not have a diode but ; click on the link from Ken Talbot or search for diode he has a post that shows where it was on his harness diodes are not very expensive, it might be worth your wild to get it to work.

Rick

[esw1104]

found the problem

After a 5:30-7:30 morning ride i let the bike cool while i dis-assembled the bike and got to work with my multi meter.

diode seemed good so chased down the 6 volt wire from diode to stator.
stator seemed good followed the wires to a junction (naturally behind the fuse panel) where the three white wires from the the stator and a mystery yellow went.

well one of the white wires had gotten a little hot and melted the 4 wire connector into a nice single melted piece of white plastic. the 6 volt to the diode had a very loose spade connector arc seams to have gotten hot

Being naturally gifted with insight i thought maybe this could be the problem

Cut and crimped the three 6 volt leads and good to go.

still do not know what the yellow was existing for. never was a wire in the out side of the junction. saw it on wiring diagrams for other models though so must be for there bikes mines got spare parts

[bikerphil]

The yellow wire from the alternator was used on the earlier 78-79 models to trigger the headlight relay. Earlier models had the diode inside the relay itself instead of in the harness like the 80-81. That still doesn\'t answer your question of why the yellow wire is there leading to nowhere.

[3Phase]

That still doesn't answer your question of why the yellow wire is there leading to nowhere.

Phil, the Yellow wire is there in all stator harnesses because all XS11s use the same 2H7-81610-10-00 part number for the stator assembly. The Yellow wire is used on the '78/'79s but is just a deadhead on the '80/'81s.