I ordered a new right side run switch/starter button/throttle housing from Mikes. I had gutted the balls (contacts) out of my old stock one from the 80 SG, when I was having a problem with it years and years ago. (turned out to be bad ground, anyway that was years ago).
So the starter button still operated, it started and I left it like that.
But now, on my chopper project bike, even though the housing is bulky, I decided to buy one of the re-pop ones from Mikes. It's black, should be functional, and while somewhat bulbous, in this case function beats minimalist style (says me).
The original switch had three wires. This pic from the orig wiring diagram confirms that. I know the red/white and blue/white go back to starter solenoid and the brown is for power to the switch.
However! the new switch from Mikes has a 4th wire - a black one.
My question is what is the black wire for? I know in order for the kill switch to work I need to wire something into one of the coil wires.
Before I relocated my key switch to the battery box, I was just gonna use the stock pos. key to "kill" it if necc.
But now I want to go ahead and use the stop-run-stop functionality.
So what do I do with the brown and black wires? Do they create a switch like the brake light switch? so BOTH should be wired into a coil wire? Or is the brown just supposed to receive switched power and the BLACK wire gets attached to coil?
Here's a blow up of that area on the stock diagram:
(THANKS! btw. )
So the starter button still operated, it started and I left it like that.
But now, on my chopper project bike, even though the housing is bulky, I decided to buy one of the re-pop ones from Mikes. It's black, should be functional, and while somewhat bulbous, in this case function beats minimalist style (says me).
The original switch had three wires. This pic from the orig wiring diagram confirms that. I know the red/white and blue/white go back to starter solenoid and the brown is for power to the switch.
However! the new switch from Mikes has a 4th wire - a black one.
My question is what is the black wire for? I know in order for the kill switch to work I need to wire something into one of the coil wires.
Before I relocated my key switch to the battery box, I was just gonna use the stock pos. key to "kill" it if necc.
But now I want to go ahead and use the stop-run-stop functionality.
So what do I do with the brown and black wires? Do they create a switch like the brake light switch? so BOTH should be wired into a coil wire? Or is the brown just supposed to receive switched power and the BLACK wire gets attached to coil?
Here's a blow up of that area on the stock diagram:
(THANKS! btw. )
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