Visor Heat Shield Hoo up gone wrong

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bzemla

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Hey Folks

Just followed the instructions for the heated visor plug by skidooboyedk (Thank-you). I have power on the inside of the female end, but when I plug in, it disables my gas gauge?

Cheers

Brad

1999 SX 600 Triple
 
I tied into the tach screw that had positive power on the test light. (red wire to positve and black to ground)The other screw was ground since the test light showed no power. When installed, test light showed power to the plug. It was mentioned the harness came reversed from the factory? Perhaps I should reverse the black and red wires?
 
I am going to check the wiring diagrams for you, I see you have the 99 sledthat would be a single bulb headlight 175 watt system and if I recall the only place you can pick up dc power is the key switch wire, the 2001 and newer vmax use the 300 watt system(dual bulb headlight) and the electrical system is opposite and likey I think is your problem. the earlier sleds use a ac voltage system for the lights,tach is voltage induced. the 2001 sleds use a dc system.

let me check both diagrams and see if my hunch is correct.
 
Use the blue wire under handle bar pad. Some models its blue with white stripe. Then ground to handle bar bolts. Did all my sleds this way without any problems. CCC
 
Super1c, youd be correct if we were talking about a dual bulb headlight sled, but your mistake is this is a single bulb headlight sled and they use a ac voltage system, so the power hook up would not yield nearly enough voltage flow.

Bzelma, my suspecting the problem to be in the hook up wire was right, and the wire you need to hook into is found off the key switch, it is the red wire. This will be clean regulated dc power for your shield, its because of the older 175 watt system running on ac voltage, the newer 2001- sxr700 and then 2002-600 went to the 300 watt dc system, this is what skidooboys article is written off of, I will see if we can clear that up in the article so this install mistake doesnt happen again.
 
I have my 99 vmax hooked up to the blue wire and my visor works fine and so does everything else.
 
Works fine on my 96 vmax xt single bulb sled? Ive read a million posts on here that say to always use the blue wire. Now to do it the way in the tech section i know is different, just giveing him another option. CCC
 
The shield works with AC or DC, as long as it's 12 volts and not unregulated. Don't ask me why I know this. They do make nice sparks in front of your eyes when they get too much juice........for a couple milli seconds anyway. You can use the blue wire under the bar pad safely.
 
crewchief47 said:
The shield works with AC or DC, as long as it's 12 volts and not unregulated. Don't ask me why I know this. They do make nice sparks in front of your eyes when they get too much juice........for a couple milli seconds anyway. You can use the blue wire under the bar pad safely.
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Why does that not surprise me, Ian. Just ribbing you man.
 
Hey thanks for all the input guys. Ill give that a shot this afternoon when the killer winds die down. Nothing like working on a sled with no garage...

Cheers
 
Re-did the wiring and hit the trails today. Visor was fogging up and got it back home to learn that the wire came loose. Re-did the wiring taking the red harness wire and connecting it to the blue wire under the pad. Went for a late night ride only to see that I lost my light for the speedometer. Not sure whats going on?

Is it important that I wire the red to the blue wire before the quick connector?

Cheers
 
Its all good guys. Coincidence that the speedometer bulb burnt out. Couldnt locate the red wire for the key switch since its wrapped pretty tight. Connected to blue and have 12 v power. All is good and thank you very much for the suggestions.

Cheers

Brad
 
bzemla said:
Re-did the wiring and hit the trails today. Visor was fogging up and got it back home to learn that the wire came loose. Re-did the wiring taking the red harness wire and connecting it to the blue wire under the pad. Went for a late night ride only to see that I lost my light for the speedometer. Not sure whats going on?

Is it important that I wire the red to the blue wire before the quick connector?

Cheers
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Never, ever use "quick connectors" They will fail ! Solder the connections. Use heatshrink tubing over the solder joint and the use electrical tape to hold this connection from bouncing around. The soldering process makes the wire britle.Keeping it snug to the harness will keep this connection for the life of the sled. The quick connectors will corrode when they get wet and produce extra load because of the higher resistance and can melt wires.
 
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