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I got stuck working all night tonight and when I went to leave I didn't have a headlight light. So I switched to high beams for the trip home and BLINK, that one burned out too.

What I've been noticing the last week or so is that I'm almost hitting the 16 volts red-line on the volt meter gauge. I don't recall it being that high before. My scoot only has 310 miles on it.

So is the high voltage to blame for blowing the bulbs or is just the cheap 12v 35/35W Chinese bulbs, or perhaps some other reason? Anything I can check?

Thanks in advance for any input.
Bill

I have one that looks similar to that and if it's the same thing as mine, it drains the float bowl for winter storage. And that's probably more than I know.

I have an alarm system on my BMS Heritage 150cc scooter that I never liked from day 1. When I turn the engine off the alarm chirps at me three times reminding to to arm the system. That's annoying to say the least. I just hit the "unlock" button on my remote thing anyway and never arm the system. If someone wants to steal my bike they're going to steal it, alarm or not. And, any little gust of wind that wiggles the handlebars causes the system to chirp. And sometimes the damn thing chirps without even being armed. And, it might have a mind of it's own and might be shutting down my engine while I'm driving it (but that's just a speculation).

Anyway, since I don't use the thing anyway and it's more of a hassle than anything else, is there a way to remove or disable the alarm system without causing any other problems elsewhere in the electrical system? Can I just unplug it?  

You're right about the break lights being up high. I guess I was focusing on being seen and not thinking about placement. The break lights were an afterthought which is why they ended up being down low. It will be easy enough to switch the two wires so I'll do just that. Thanks for the heads-up!

On my first night ride a few weeks ago a guy pulled up next to me at a stop light, rolled down his window and said "Hey man, I ride too so I'm just sayin'- your tail light is really hard to see". I thanked him and thought about it all the way home. That dinky little tail light on the back of my dinky little scooter would be really hard to see until you got right up on my .

I did some Google searching for "super bright 12 volt LED light strips" and found a 5 meter roll for around 15 bucks. I ordered and got them two days later.

I cut the strip to a length that would fit wrapped around the sides and back of my trunk, soldered a length of duel solid strand 24 guage wire to the conveniently located copper solder points on the strip and tapped that wire into my tail lights. They can surely see me now!

But if that wasn't enough, and seeing as how I still had multiple feet of strip left, I cut another length that fit around my rear bumper and wired that strip into my break lights. I tapped both sets of wires into where the break and tail lights are. Conveinient and easy enough to do.

So when my key is on my trunk light strip is on and when I break the bumper LED's come on. I feel much safer now. So a big thank you to the unknown rider that thought enough about a fello rider to say something!

Just a thought. JB Weld is some good stuff. I have a common problem on machines that I maintain where the keys wear and wears away at the key slot in the motor's Rotor shaft as well. I've had some success cleaning out the key slot really good then filling the slot with JB weld, inserting the key then cutting away the excess JB compound. This method might work for your application as well and it's a whole lot less work then replacing your Crank Shaft. The key is only holding the flywheel in place and there's not a lot of torque applied to it while the flywhell is spinning so it might be worth a try.