member3480
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Just a heads up and for some of you head banngers put your thinking caps on.
Ok you guys know I make harnesses and I ran into a bad set of switches that are driving me nuts. These are aftermarket switches and I have used them in the past and never heard back if they were still working. I try and keep the cost of my harnesses down so they are reasonable and I know that I can go to a much better factory switch but that raises the cost to be close to just buying a factory harness. My harnesses are 16 gage and stock is 18 gage so the wire is not the problem. These switches are very small wire 22 gage and I think they just can't handle the 12 volts after time.
I bought 11 switches so I had stock and 8 out of 11 went up in smoke. These switches are HORN/TURN SIGNALS/HIGH BEAM Handlebar switch . Some of them went up in smoke as soon as I ran the flasher and the other went up in smoke when I had the high beam on. Yet if I OHM these out they work perfect before I stick voltage to them. They are kind of weird the way they are wired and one of them I even changed the wire to 16 gage and that worked so far but looks like shit.
Anyone ever use these and of course you can only get the vendor threw email so I am going to eat this cost plus I had to give a couple refunds because I can't deliver. So for now until I can figure out this issue or go to a more costly switch I am not taking any orders on harnesses with handlebar switches.
Put your thinking caps on I need some input am I missing something???
Ok you guys know I make harnesses and I ran into a bad set of switches that are driving me nuts. These are aftermarket switches and I have used them in the past and never heard back if they were still working. I try and keep the cost of my harnesses down so they are reasonable and I know that I can go to a much better factory switch but that raises the cost to be close to just buying a factory harness. My harnesses are 16 gage and stock is 18 gage so the wire is not the problem. These switches are very small wire 22 gage and I think they just can't handle the 12 volts after time.
I bought 11 switches so I had stock and 8 out of 11 went up in smoke. These switches are HORN/TURN SIGNALS/HIGH BEAM Handlebar switch . Some of them went up in smoke as soon as I ran the flasher and the other went up in smoke when I had the high beam on. Yet if I OHM these out they work perfect before I stick voltage to them. They are kind of weird the way they are wired and one of them I even changed the wire to 16 gage and that worked so far but looks like shit.
Anyone ever use these and of course you can only get the vendor threw email so I am going to eat this cost plus I had to give a couple refunds because I can't deliver. So for now until I can figure out this issue or go to a more costly switch I am not taking any orders on harnesses with handlebar switches.
Put your thinking caps on I need some input am I missing something???
