Electrical puzzle

[crazy steve]

If you've only got 10 volts at the fuses and 12+ at the battery, you've got some connections problems...

Starting tracing circuits, and here's a guide: http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35337
Start at the battery, and working upstream away from it, check to see where you're losing voltage.

[Seabass Critt]

Ok thank you, I will take a look at everything tomorrow then let you know what i find out.

Thank, Jason

[bikerphil]

Don't forget about cleaning the ground connections. There are a few at the voltage regulator under the gas tank, two under the battery box area on the bike's left side that go to the frame and engine, and the turn signal grounds at the signal stalks.

[Seabass Critt]

Alright, thanks i will remember

[newmaac]

Just a quick follow-up folks. It has been a while but several of you had chimed-in to help me in the diagnosis.

My "brown wire circuit" problem turned-out to be simply a fuse connection.
I had checked all of the fuses, and greased them, but didn't clean the connections in the fuse box. They didn't look dirty or corroded in any way, so I just greased 'em and moved on.
After re-reading Crazy Steve's post I went back and checked voltage at both sides of the fuses. The main brown wire fuse had intermittant voltage on the "out" side.
A simple scrape, and I am back on the road.

Thanks again for the input guys.

Mike