MFJustin
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So I am on the verge of wiring up my new build and have been reading lots and lots of excellent wiring diagrams posted on this site. I'm running kick only, Sparx Capacitor with a PMA and Pamco ignition so I took the best, least complicated diagram I could find and kind of modified it to my needs.
Wanted to see if someone could look it over for me and check to make sure everything looks good. I did have a few questions that I wanted to get an opinion on also, I feel like they are simple questions but this is a first for me so I just want to cover all of my bases. That being said I REALLY appreciate all of the help I've gotten from this site during this build. This is pretty much the last huge piece of the puzzle before I can get it all together and tuned.
1.) For the headlight I am not running any handlebar controls, this is as stripped down of a build as I can make it. For that reason I am not running a high beam/low beam switch either. Just planned to wire up only the low beam for power. That being said, I wanted to put a cheap and easy rocker switch between the light and the fuse box so I can turn it on and off. From what I've gathered since I'm running kick only with a capacitor its a better idea to have the light off on start up correct? This should be a simple enough addition then.
2.) I'm not running a rear brake so no need for a rear brake light switch. Planned on just using the switch from the the handlebar lever. This should also be an easy thing to do depending on how the wiring coming out of my taillight looks since I still need to check on that.
3.) The biggest headache I've encountered is pictured below. I planned to use the key ignition from a previous XS I had purchased already completed. The ignition has 4 posts, one for the starter, one for battery, one for ignition and one for accessories. I figured it was simple enough to wire it up for the new diagram. The power wire off of the capacitor would go to the battery post and then a wire would come off of the ignition post and go to the fusebox. Maybe this ignition switch is just too much and I need to get a simplified one with less options? lol
The only reason I am questioning if that is the correct method is because when I took the wires off from the ignition switch and how it was wired previously, I took note of where the specific wires went. You would turn the key to the right and the lights and everything else would come on, from here you could kick start it or continue to turn it to the right like you would a car ignition and it would engage the electric starter. Ignition post went to the fusebox, Battery post went to the battery, starter post went to the starter.....but the kicker was that the reg/rec was wired up with one wire (red wire pictured) going to the accessories post and then another wire (red/white striped wire pictured) going to the post where the battery connected to. It kind of threw me for a loop because this is my first time wiring up a bike completely and however the PO did it didn't really make sense compared to the other wiring diagrams I've read here.
((This is how it was previously wired up before on a 79 I bought with points ignition/starter/and stock charging system))
Wanted to see if someone could look it over for me and check to make sure everything looks good. I did have a few questions that I wanted to get an opinion on also, I feel like they are simple questions but this is a first for me so I just want to cover all of my bases. That being said I REALLY appreciate all of the help I've gotten from this site during this build. This is pretty much the last huge piece of the puzzle before I can get it all together and tuned.
1.) For the headlight I am not running any handlebar controls, this is as stripped down of a build as I can make it. For that reason I am not running a high beam/low beam switch either. Just planned to wire up only the low beam for power. That being said, I wanted to put a cheap and easy rocker switch between the light and the fuse box so I can turn it on and off. From what I've gathered since I'm running kick only with a capacitor its a better idea to have the light off on start up correct? This should be a simple enough addition then.
2.) I'm not running a rear brake so no need for a rear brake light switch. Planned on just using the switch from the the handlebar lever. This should also be an easy thing to do depending on how the wiring coming out of my taillight looks since I still need to check on that.
3.) The biggest headache I've encountered is pictured below. I planned to use the key ignition from a previous XS I had purchased already completed. The ignition has 4 posts, one for the starter, one for battery, one for ignition and one for accessories. I figured it was simple enough to wire it up for the new diagram. The power wire off of the capacitor would go to the battery post and then a wire would come off of the ignition post and go to the fusebox. Maybe this ignition switch is just too much and I need to get a simplified one with less options? lol
The only reason I am questioning if that is the correct method is because when I took the wires off from the ignition switch and how it was wired previously, I took note of where the specific wires went. You would turn the key to the right and the lights and everything else would come on, from here you could kick start it or continue to turn it to the right like you would a car ignition and it would engage the electric starter. Ignition post went to the fusebox, Battery post went to the battery, starter post went to the starter.....but the kicker was that the reg/rec was wired up with one wire (red wire pictured) going to the accessories post and then another wire (red/white striped wire pictured) going to the post where the battery connected to. It kind of threw me for a loop because this is my first time wiring up a bike completely and however the PO did it didn't really make sense compared to the other wiring diagrams I've read here.
((This is how it was previously wired up before on a 79 I bought with points ignition/starter/and stock charging system))
