voltmeter

I am having trouble wiring a generic led voltmeter from ebay to my bike I tried plugging in a light brown wire and ground and it read 0, i tried wiring it directly to the positive and negative leads of sparx capacitor and it still read 0 even when it was idling. The voltmeter works because I...

Fellow member Daniel Black installed one of these and I quite liked the results. He ran wires into the headlight bucket to power the meter. I was hoping I might find a hook-up right in the dash pod and a little wiring diagram research showed I could. But first, here's the results at idle ...