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Baph
23-08-08, 08:37 AM
A couple of days ago, I figured I'd pull out the Haynes to look over the diagrams, as my bike seriously needs re-wiring (additional wires, not the stock loom).

Whilst I'm looking at the loom diagram for my bike & sketching various places to tap into feeds, I saw a connector I've never noticed before, labelled "Alarm connector." :shock:

Turns out that it has an "ignition sense" feed, as well as spark pulse (and I can't remember the other one at the moment). So I ripped the bike apart looking for the connector, and it's behind the headstock, down in front of the airbox.

I'll be using that when I'm re-wiring the bike, and the alarm will be moving into the toolkit holder (toolkit under pillion seat), when I get around to re-wiring.

Just figured I'd post so that others can find this ingenius plug in future.
Dangerous Dave
23-08-08, 10:27 AM
What bike you got again Baph?
Baph
23-08-08, 10:35 AM
What bike you got again Baph?
K6 SV650S ... according to the diagram I was looking at, the connector is also on the K5's. So I guess it's K5+.
Dangerous Dave
23-08-08, 10:39 AM
Yeap, on all the K5+. This is for the Meta alarm that Suzuki sell as an official accessory.

http://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/accessories/onroad/ select SV in the range and then search.

http://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/uploads/newM357TV2pr.jpg (http://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/uploads/newM357TV2pr.jpg)
Baph
23-08-08, 10:44 AM
Never knew it was there, until I stumbled across it. It'd of saved some hassle when fitting my alarm if I'd known about it.

For that reason, figured I'd post to let others know. :)
Dangerous Dave
23-08-08, 10:45 AM
For that reason, figured I'd post to let others know. :)
Good chap.
yorkie_chris
23-08-08, 02:09 PM
Makes it easy to remove when the alarm goes wrong anyway :-P

Doesn't seem too thief proof though, on mine when it had meta alarm they would have slit their wrists with a cold soldering iron out of boredom trying to figure out what was where.
gettin2dizzy
23-08-08, 02:38 PM
I remember reading about someone's ingenious wiring where they had wired the electronic open button for their garage in to the bike, as the 'pass' button.

Genius!
Dangerous Dave
23-08-08, 03:17 PM
Makes it easy to remove when the alarm goes wrong anyway :-P
Unfortunately not, there are still some other wires to struggle with as it isn't a simple plug in unit.
gettin2dizzy
23-08-08, 03:23 PM
I remember reading about someone's ingenious wiring where they had wired the electronic open button for their garage in to the bike, as the 'pass' button.

Genius!
'ere (http://www.livevideo.com/video/7E4AEA1C7C004534934BDD42E28FCBA8/sv650s-integrated-garage-doo.aspx)
carsounds_dan
24-08-08, 04:07 AM
when i fitted the alarm on my zxr400 i took the entire loom off of the bike to make installing it easier, it was amazing the amount of standard wiring that was about to short out or snapping out of connectors. i remade half the loom, fitted my alarm, self amalgomated the whole lot up and then it re-installed it. no wiring problems for me and the loom looked so standard that the alarm looked like it was meant to be part of the bike.