honda ignition switch wiring

[bikeboy]

Hi gang. I have an aftermarket ignition switch for my 400F, but I'm not sure it's wired right?

When it's in this position, I would have thought it was 'on':

But I only get continuity from the red (hot) to brown (lights). The black isn't fed unless the key is in what I thought should be the 'park' position - and then the lights are off???

Any thoughts?

cheers
ian

 

[bikeboy]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking Glenn. The meter tells me the black and the brown need to be reversed. Just thought I'd check in first, 'coz I'm not familiar with these earlier models.

cheers mate
ian

 

[frogman]

Does the switch have 3 positions, OFF, ON, and PARK? The last one should just turn the tail lamp on, some turn the running lamps on up front as well. It's European thing, some countries have laws where if a vehicle is parked on the side of the street at night it is supposed to have parking lights on, hence the 3rd position.

If not then swapping the ends in the connector should be pretty easy.

 

[bikeboy]

Does the switch have 3 positions, OFF, ON, and PARK? The last one should just turn the tail lamp on, some turn the running lamps on up front as well.

Well, that's part of my problem I think. I'm not too sure? In the OFF position, it points to the word OFF. The next position points to one of the dots (has power to the black lead), and the next position point to the dot in front of the word IGNITION, with power to the lights, and that's it? To be consistant, I would have thought ignition position would point to the word. It doesn't and I don't want to force it.

Looks like a wire swap is in order.

cheers
ian

 

[frogman]

Well on my 360 which the switch looks pretty close, first slot is OFF, second is ignition ON, third is tail light ON and nothing else.

I can pull the plug out in the AM and do continuity test across the leads in the plug if you like. Needs coffee first....

 

[crazypj]

Yeah that's an OFF-ON-PARK switch.
Off, no connections, ON, red to black, black to fuse/distribution block
Park, red to brown for tail light (required when parked if no streetlights or speed limit is higher than 30mph)
Regulations may may vary in different states?

 

[bikeboy]

Yeah that's an OFF-ON-PARK switch.
Off, no connections, ON, red to black, black to fuse/distribution block
Park, red to brown for tail light (required when parked if no streetlights or speed limit is higher than 30mph)
Regulations may may vary in different states?

cool. Thanks guys. That's that sorted. I don't need to worry about the park position.

thanks
ian