Recent content by JWS1989

Well, before it blew it was constantly flickering, and like I said the ground has spots that look like something burned through the connector insulation. Could this be my issue?

Actually there are burnt spots on the ground wire connection on the pigtail. I thought it was an issue but the new headlight worked fine, for a while.

That was precisely my thoughts. I Believe the headlight that was on the bike when I purchased it was the original. It had a crack in the front lens, but it still worked. I changed it because it was broken, I then dropped it and it's now in about 500 pieces.

Here they are, sorry for the delay. If you need more let me.know.

The issue returned, I rode the bike about 10 miles, and in that time it has already burnt out another headlight bulb. All the other lights work fine, it's a Sylvania H6024, and this is the second bulbs in two weeks. They exchanged the last one, I dwon't get that lucky again, any suggestions?

Oh sorry, I got so excited I forgot to say. The headlight was bad. I'm guessing the RLU had an internal short, and ruined the headlight. Threw the RLU in the weeds, jumped it, plugged new headlight in, and shazam! You guys are great, thanks a lot for the help! I do have one question, my...

Problem solved. I was truly stumped, you guys got me back in business! Many thanks!

Will do, I'll report back.

It's a brand new headlight, not that that matters I suppose. I did notice the ground terminal from the pigtail appears to have been hot at some point and arced through the plug insulator.

I tested with a jumper wires directly from the battery, here is where it gets weird. If I put the negative jumper to ground, and the hot jumper to the high or low beam terminal on the bulb, I get nothing. If I put the negative jumper to the low bean terminal and the hot jumper to the high beam...

Hey guys, first post. I've searched high and low for answers to this and I've found nothing. I finally had to join a forum. I have a 1981 XS650 Special. I have no headlight, but I do have gauge lights! I eliminated the RLU and jumped the yellow/black and Yellow/blue wires; with headlight...