Post by steve on Apr 30, 2015 7:44:06 GMT -5
****Sorry, mods, I'm new. I just found the garage area for discussions like this. I reposted this there. You can delete this one. My bad. 
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Kind of complicated, as all electrical issues are.
Background: I put a new stator on a couple of weeks ago. A screw had gotten in the flywheel, and chewed the stator up. I don't feel that is related, but that is that.
Here is the deal: I put a car bulb in my scooter, and it melted the lense. So I put a couple 55w fog lights on the front. The AC voltage was blowing bulbs, so I used a scooter rectifier to convert the light wires to DC. It was a 7 wire rectifier, so I hooked the blue high beam, and the brown light wire to 2 of the yellow AC inputs on the rectifier. I left the white, low beam wire alone, and just capped it.I connected 1 light to the white output, it read 12v DC. I connected the other light to the red output, it read 9v DC. I connected both of the light's black wires to the green ground wire out of the rectifier.
I was riding the other morning, and accidentally pressed down on the high/low beam switch. That flashes both the high and low beams at the same time. My lights cut off for the second that it was pressed, but then came back on. I pressed it again, then the same thing happened. I hit it again, and the lights stayed on. This puzzled me, but from then on, nothing happened when I hit the flash button.
BUT, the next time I tried to start it, the start button did not work. I jumped the solenoid, and it would start. So it was something before the solenoid.
Then, this morning it would not start at all. There is no spark from the plug. I unhooked the kill switch/start switch from the handlebar, and it doesn't appear to be fried.
How can I start testing?
Is there any way I can rig it to get it running until I have some time on Saturday to mess with it? This 50cc Jonway is my sole means of transportation.
***Kind of complicated, as all electrical issues are.
Background: I put a new stator on a couple of weeks ago. A screw had gotten in the flywheel, and chewed the stator up. I don't feel that is related, but that is that.
Here is the deal: I put a car bulb in my scooter, and it melted the lense. So I put a couple 55w fog lights on the front. The AC voltage was blowing bulbs, so I used a scooter rectifier to convert the light wires to DC. It was a 7 wire rectifier, so I hooked the blue high beam, and the brown light wire to 2 of the yellow AC inputs on the rectifier. I left the white, low beam wire alone, and just capped it.I connected 1 light to the white output, it read 12v DC. I connected the other light to the red output, it read 9v DC. I connected both of the light's black wires to the green ground wire out of the rectifier.
I was riding the other morning, and accidentally pressed down on the high/low beam switch. That flashes both the high and low beams at the same time. My lights cut off for the second that it was pressed, but then came back on. I pressed it again, then the same thing happened. I hit it again, and the lights stayed on. This puzzled me, but from then on, nothing happened when I hit the flash button.
BUT, the next time I tried to start it, the start button did not work. I jumped the solenoid, and it would start. So it was something before the solenoid.
Then, this morning it would not start at all. There is no spark from the plug. I unhooked the kill switch/start switch from the handlebar, and it doesn't appear to be fried.
How can I start testing?
Is there any way I can rig it to get it running until I have some time on Saturday to mess with it? This 50cc Jonway is my sole means of transportation.