crisis
09-04-14, 09:13 PM
Hi,
I have a 2006 SV650S, bought a couple of months ago. When I was cleaning the air filter for the first time I noticed a couple of copper terminal blocks joining wires together in front of the airbox. Further investigation while I was messing about with the STVA showed that a previous owner had used these to connect two wires from the ignition switch (orange and red) to wires in the main loom. It looks like one of the connectors in the green connector had burned out, so presumably that's why.
The insulation tape they'd wrapped round the terminal blocks was falling off (hot and oily there I guess), and I got some sparks while moving the wires around so I thought best to replace with a proper connector.
My chosen replacement is a "Metri-pack 280" connector (as here (http://kojaycat.co.uk/epages/950000457.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950000457/Products/280-2W-CONN)), all nicely sealed etc, and rated to 30 amps. I may be being paranoid, but does anyone know the maximum current these wires (orange and red from the ignition switch) are likely to take, or alternatively what the original connector is rated to?
Secondly, the new connector is fairly chunky and it's now sitting right beneath where air seems to be drawn into the airbox. Given that the area is already fairly busy with cables and connectors, am I likely to see much restriction of the airflow?
I know there are a lot of threads about green connector issues so apologies if this is going over old ground, but from what I can tell most people seem to solder the wires together or they don't mention which connectors they use in the end.
Cheers,
Ben
I have a 2006 SV650S, bought a couple of months ago. When I was cleaning the air filter for the first time I noticed a couple of copper terminal blocks joining wires together in front of the airbox. Further investigation while I was messing about with the STVA showed that a previous owner had used these to connect two wires from the ignition switch (orange and red) to wires in the main loom. It looks like one of the connectors in the green connector had burned out, so presumably that's why.
The insulation tape they'd wrapped round the terminal blocks was falling off (hot and oily there I guess), and I got some sparks while moving the wires around so I thought best to replace with a proper connector.
My chosen replacement is a "Metri-pack 280" connector (as here (http://kojaycat.co.uk/epages/950000457.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950000457/Products/280-2W-CONN)), all nicely sealed etc, and rated to 30 amps. I may be being paranoid, but does anyone know the maximum current these wires (orange and red from the ignition switch) are likely to take, or alternatively what the original connector is rated to?
Secondly, the new connector is fairly chunky and it's now sitting right beneath where air seems to be drawn into the airbox. Given that the area is already fairly busy with cables and connectors, am I likely to see much restriction of the airflow?
I know there are a lot of threads about green connector issues so apologies if this is going over old ground, but from what I can tell most people seem to solder the wires together or they don't mention which connectors they use in the end.
Cheers,
Ben