I have been pulling my hair out with repairs... Namely electrical. I smashed the front right hand side LED indicator, in the fairing, when I came off. This was a lovely little flush mount unit and it has until this incident worked very well.
So I bought new set of the same and set about fitting them in, with the old ballast resistors. Having a brand new matched pair, I wired in both and yet only the left hand side worked. I stripped everything down and checked every connection. The lighting plug in the nose cone is a little corroded, but I have cleaned that up with electrical contact cleaner and a brush. I checked the continuity of every plug and join and everything worked fine. Finally, with nothing left to check, I tested the new indicators. One of them is faulty and guess which side I fitted that too?
So I have been chasing my tail all day, getting more and more annoyed... I have now replaced a perfectly working unit with another perfectly working, but newer unit and have now taken out a brand new failed unit and refitted the older working unit.
Now my brain hurts.
To add the joy, my now all grown up daughter came home from work (she is an engineer, to add context) and suggested fitting an adjustable flasher can so I can do away with the ballast resistors. So I pulled out the wiring manual for my precious K3 only to find that it does not use a standard flasher relay... It is a funny box of tricks that also does the side stand switch.
WHY DOES IT ALL HAVE TO BE SO (apply your own and offensively rude swearing here, because mine would embarrass a Sailor who dropped an anchor on his foot!) DIFFICULT?
