Ok, I'm only posting this so it draws attention and those who do a mental filter on the chatter will have a chance to read and maybe apply their knowledge to my worries.
I'm going to copy and paste the relevant part of my trip report here. I need help tracking down the cause of my headlight issue. Does anyone know of a way to check the relay to see if that's the real cause?
Here's the data:
I got about 100 miles into my journey. Right about dusk my headlight decided it would be cool to just go OUT. No backup light, no headlight indicator, no high beam or low beam. OUT. I was lucky that I was right at a good place to pull over. I pulled the headlight out and inspected it - good connection - no bad elements. Put that back together and pulled the fuse box open. Every fuse was seated properly and nothing was blown. Put everything back together and started the bike and voila - there was light... how odd. I got a few more miles down the road and it went out again! This time, it was in a two way zone where I had no place to pull over at all. I rode behind a car with my hazard lights on. No other systems were affected. Then the lights came back on by themselves. Then off, on, off, on.... this was insane. I was wiggling my keys and the wires leading to the dimmer switch. Here and there it seemed as if moving the wires made a difference, but I could be mistaken. I set to taking the dimmer switch apart, thinking the problem was there. The dimmer had one yellow wire pinched inside. The jacket was intact, but I couldn’t' tell if the wire was damaged. I turned everything on and moved the wire. I could not get it to disconnect. I put everything back together in a wire-friendly way and set out to call Curt (Mokiman). He and I discussed the symptoms and concluded that the problem was either due to the pinched wire (which has been pinched since before I got it and had no jacket damage and no stress) or the headlight relay. Since I could not duplicate the problem with the dimmer switchbox open and moving the wires, we kinda leaned toward the relay as the culprit, but did not conclude anything. I set back out on the road and went for almost 30 miles without incident. Maybe it was the wire after all - then - as Emeril would say: BAM - dark again. $#@!$%[email protected]#@!!!
I'm going to copy and paste the relevant part of my trip report here. I need help tracking down the cause of my headlight issue. Does anyone know of a way to check the relay to see if that's the real cause?
Here's the data:
I got about 100 miles into my journey. Right about dusk my headlight decided it would be cool to just go OUT. No backup light, no headlight indicator, no high beam or low beam. OUT. I was lucky that I was right at a good place to pull over. I pulled the headlight out and inspected it - good connection - no bad elements. Put that back together and pulled the fuse box open. Every fuse was seated properly and nothing was blown. Put everything back together and started the bike and voila - there was light... how odd. I got a few more miles down the road and it went out again! This time, it was in a two way zone where I had no place to pull over at all. I rode behind a car with my hazard lights on. No other systems were affected. Then the lights came back on by themselves. Then off, on, off, on.... this was insane. I was wiggling my keys and the wires leading to the dimmer switch. Here and there it seemed as if moving the wires made a difference, but I could be mistaken. I set to taking the dimmer switch apart, thinking the problem was there. The dimmer had one yellow wire pinched inside. The jacket was intact, but I couldn’t' tell if the wire was damaged. I turned everything on and moved the wire. I could not get it to disconnect. I put everything back together in a wire-friendly way and set out to call Curt (Mokiman). He and I discussed the symptoms and concluded that the problem was either due to the pinched wire (which has been pinched since before I got it and had no jacket damage and no stress) or the headlight relay. Since I could not duplicate the problem with the dimmer switchbox open and moving the wires, we kinda leaned toward the relay as the culprit, but did not conclude anything. I set back out on the road and went for almost 30 miles without incident. Maybe it was the wire after all - then - as Emeril would say: BAM - dark again. $#@!$%[email protected]#@!!!