No Indicators

As it says- the indy circuit is not working at all.

At Spanner Man's suggestion, I had a look at the fuses, switch and the relay.

The switch looks mechanically sound, tested the fuse (swapped around with a working one), so I replaced the relay.

Still nothing. The relay delivered was labelled as a Bandit Relay (from Wemoto- bought as an SV unit), but given the design and fit, I would expect that they're the same design.

I guess it could still be the switch, or the wiring.

Any more suggestions?

Cheers Muchly

The D

short out a connection in the switch with a small piece of wire that will show if there is any problems with it, if that doesnt do the trick start learning how a multi-meter works

Yes- my metering skills are fairly inadequate!!

Cheers- will do.

[G]

Take them off and use your arms?

Technically legal... could become a pain though lol

after connecting the power from the live side of the switch to each indicator, connect it to the lights live aswell as that will give you a idea of where the fault is, if on the cable, before the switch or after it, or confirm it is the switch. let us know your findings

Nice one Sunshine.

G- good plan! Though use of arms can be a challenge when clutching in to shift down at a roundabout!

I felt very aware of the lack of indys on the commute home on Friday! Luckily, I can use my Bro's bike for a few days...

Right- I've had the switch apart.

Mechanism is definitely sound. Nothing happens when bridging left contact with middle, or right contact with middle. (I'm assuming that the middle is one side of the circuit and the left/right contacts the other.

Don't have time tonight to test from the line to each indicator, but if one of those had a broken signal, surely it'd just flash double time, as when a lamp blows?

I did run a wire from the battery positive to the left and right contacts- the relative rear indicator came on solid for each, but not the front.

So- I'm guessing it's signal to the relay that is the problem.

[yorkie_chris]

Sounds like it, you got a multimeter?

Yes- what setting do I put it on- I guess it'd be 20V DC?

Where do I connect the prongs?

Cheersy..

Right- I'm going to attempt to look at this problem again shortly- I guess I'll be measuring resistance from the centre connector to the relay.

Any tips on this? Does it run from there straight into the relay? I've a feeling this is the most likely circuit to be broken.

The Haynes manual doesn't give a load of info on the indicator circuit.

Thanks

D