Exactly right. Crimp first then just a tiny drop of solder. As soon as it starts to flow.... stop.Personally i prefer to crimp the wire and then a drop of solder if wanted........Connector will actually grab and hold the wire, if soldered first then the connector only wraps against the solder
Thanks 650, I actually read a bunch of that thread before I joined the forum, but I'll go through more thoroughly as I close in on wiring day. I assumed that if you heated to the right temp, the tinned wire's solder would fuse to the fresh bead on top. Everything's getting heatshrinked.. shrunk... shrunken.. anyway I'm just being anal. I'll do some experiments and post results with rudimentary pull tests when I startYou might find this thread in wiring handy... http://www.xs650.com/threads/wiring-harness-musings.18925/ ....Personally i prefer to crimp the wire and then a drop of solder if wanted........Connector will actually grab and hold the wire, if soldered first then the connector only wraps against the solder
http://www.ktm950.info/how/Electrical Shop/Wiring/Basics/Basic_wiring.html
Never mind, that's two more experienced minds (yours and jims) both saying to solder post-crimp, so instructions i shall followThanks 650, I actually read a bunch of that thread before I joined the forum, but I'll go through more thoroughly as I close in on wiring day. I assumed that if you heated to the right temp, the tinned wire's solder would fuse to the fresh bead on top. Everything's getting heatshrinked.. shrunk... shrunken.. anyway I'm just being anal. I'll do some experiments and post results with rudimentary pull tests when I start
So that's 3 in favor of crimp first ask questions later?Thousands(?) of years ago, one of my electronics instructors told us something I already knew: "...the key to a good electrical solder connection is a good mechanical connection..."
For that red wire, did you mean coming from rectifier? In that case, do you mean ign hot should come from the battery side of the fuse?Just about all diagrams have the red wire from the regulator splitting off to the ignition and then a fuse before the battery. Should be red wire from regulator through a fuse to the battery and run to the ignition as a split off there.......
Not sure if the starter button blue/white wire should he connected to the safety relay.........think it should be to an earth.........???
Dang, I was excited to finally contribute something after all the questions too..No, those no-hole pilots you found are not compatible with your carbs. They are actually a no-hole version of a BS30/96 type pilot and you need VM22/210 pilots.
That's gotta make more sense than blue/white going into the old smoke and mirror box and coming right back out magically transformed into a black ground wire!Blue/white from the solenoid to the starter button. When the button is pushed it contacts a ground and starts.....
It's starting to make sense. Gonna take me some time, virtually no electrical experience. Methodically reading thru every wiring write up I can find until things start to look less like a foreign language. Thanks 650Revised and finished the Diagram with the second stop switch and power, (red), to safety relay and renamed solenoid and start switch
been working on this XS2 wiring diagram...........
Any faults found please advise to revise...