Relocating wiring / electrics

[Canadian]

Hi all,

As i'm ditching my side panels of my cb550f, I have some questions.

I'll be mounting my electrics (battery, regulator, ... all that stuff) under the end of my caferacer seat.

Anything I need to take into account before I begin?

°making sure my wires are thick enough
°Anything about vibrations ?
...

?

Brgds,
Elias

 

[Sonreir]

Vibrations usually aren't an issue with good crimped connectors, but make sure your wires are thick enough. Most of the wires for the regulator/recitifer will want to be 14 AWG. Others should be at least 18 AWG.

 

[Canadian]

ALright, made sure above is done!

Now electrics are done, carbs are in etc ...

Want to hook up my rear light. Should it lighten up together with the front light, when I put my contact on ??

Plus:

Can someone tell me what wire I need to connect to which one? I really hate the electric part


Rear light lights (LED):

Rear socket with wires (as you know 'm ... cb550f from 1977)

Pls advise ... got my brakelight hooked up already!

Brgds
Elias

 

[Sonreir]

Elias,

We won't be able to tell you which wire goes where without a diagram. Try hooking them up in different order until everything works correctly.

If it's just the red, yellow, and black wires, then those wires are probably brake, running light, and ground, respectively. That's the green/yellow, brown, and green wires on a Honda.

 

[Maritime]

Yep, red and yellow will be running and tail and you can tell which buy putting 12v to each, black is probably ground. use your battery and some spare wire and run the black to neg, then the red to + and then the yellow to + the brighter of the 2 is brake. Then hook them up like Matt said above. I just did that with a China LED tail but my yellows wires were signals and it had red, black green for stop tail ground, black was ground on the light but it is green on the Honda.

 

[Maritime]

Also I took the factory light, cut the bullets off of it for the light and soldered them with a length of factory wire to be able to remove the light and re-connect it without guessing after I got the combo right.

 

[Canadian]

Got it thx.

Extra question: when you turn on ignition and your headlight pops on, should your rear pop on as well?

Brgds,
Wannes

 

[Sonreir]

Generally, yes.

 

[Canadian]

Fixed!

A wire in the headlight bucket wasn't connected which ment the back wire didn't get any electricity.

Thx! Everything works now.

Brgds,
Elias